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The Pirasti Trio (violin, cello, piano)
Monday 21st October
7:30pm at the Penrith Methodist Church
Tickets: £20 (students £5), at the door or in advance.
A PROGRAMME OF CONTRASTS
The Pirasti Piano Trio will be the guest artists for Penrith Music Club’s second concert of the season. Based in Edinburgh, the players are Nicholas Miller (violin), Alison Wells (cello) and Jeffrey Starkey (piano). Alison is a former student of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith and daughter of David Wells, founder of the Penrith Singers. She teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in Edinburgh, where Jeffrey Starkey is principal. Nicholas Miller is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
The concert includes three very contrasting works, Rebecca Clarke was one of the leading British women composers a century ago and the opening item will be her dramatic and highly-regarded Piano Trio, written in 1921, Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music follows, full of jazzy, foot=tapping rhythms, a picture of American café life in the last century, The finale will be Brahms’s majestic Piano Trio in B major, one of the greatest piano trios of the 19th century.
Programme
| Rebecca Clarke | Piano Trio |
| Paul Schoenfield | Café Music |
| Brahms | Piano Trio in B major, op.8 |
