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Oct
9
6:30 PM18:30
Minerva Piano Trio

NEW CD LAUNCH - Conway Hall, London

DANCE! NEW CD LAUNCH

Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in D major 'Ghost' Op.70 No. 1
Caroline Shaw (arr. Yim) Gustave Le Gray (2012, arr. 2022)
Richard Birchall Contours (2014)
Joseph Haydn Trio in G 'Gypsy Rondo' Hob XV:25
Stravinsky (arr. Birchall) Pulcinella Suite (1922, arr. 2021)

Join the Minerva Piano Trio as they launch their new CD ‘Dance!’. The disc features four newly recorded works, including specially commissioned arrangements of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe. To learn more about the disc - click here.

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Oct
11
1:10 AM01:10
Minerva Piano Trio

Minerva Piano Trio - Lunchtime Recital

PULCINELLA SUITE (première)

MON 11 OCT 1.10pm | The Hearn Recital Room

Annie Yim piano | Michal Cwizewicz violin | Richard Birchall cello

Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite (arranged Richard Birchall) *première performance*
Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, No. 2, Op. 80

The Minerva Piano Trio have established themselves as one of the UK’s most exciting trios whose playing has been described as “wonderfully rich, thunderous, and lyrical” (Classic FM). Acclaimed for their performances of the richly varied traditional repertoire, the Trio are equally passionate about reviving important but rarely performed works, championing leading young composers by commissioning new works and arrangements, and collaborating with other art forms such as dance.

TICKETS: £10
Running Time: approx. 60 mins no interval

Presented by Friends of Blackheath Halls

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Minerva perform Schubert + Ravel at SJSS
Oct
22
1:00 PM13:00
Minerva Piano Trio

Minerva perform Schubert + Ravel at SJSS

Maurice Ravel (arr. David Knotts) Scenes from ‘Daphnis and Chloe’

Franz Schubert Piano Trio No.1 in Bb major D898

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The Minerva Piano Trio returns to St John’s Smith Square with a programme featuring Schubert’s Trio in B-flat major and an arrangement of selected scenes from Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe, which was commissioned and premiered during the Trio’s Young Artist residency at St John’s Smith Square in 2016/17.

Arranged by composer David Knotts, Scenes from Daphnis and Chloe include three movements from Ravel’s original orchestral score: Nocturne, Pantomime, Danse Guerrière. Ravel’s ballet was inspired by Greek writer Longus’ pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloe from 2nd century AD.  The three selected movements in the new arrangement offer a thematic trajectory drawn from the actual novel about the discovery of love: innocence, awakening, touch, and passion. 

Robert Schumann said of Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, D.898: “One glance at Schubert's Trio and the troubles of our human existence disappear and all the world is fresh and bright again.”  Written in 1827, this late large-scale work by Schubert, along with his monumental Piano Trio in E-flat, encompasses a full spectrum from unbridled joy to other-worldly lyricism.  

Described as “an ensemble which is clearly going places”, “rich, thunderous and lyrical” (Classic FM), the Trio will be recording their debut album this season which will include their own commissions such as Scenes from Daphnis and Chloe featured in this programme.

NB. SJSS will be implementing a socially distanced and safe environment. Practical details will be forwarded to ticket holders prior to the event. Should circumstances prevent the concerts from going ahead then full refunds will be provided. DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE at www.sjss.org.uk from 29th October 2020


Box Office:
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Mar
31
7:00 PM19:00
Minerva Piano Trio

TRIO: Franz Schubert - Clara Schumann - Cheryl Frances-Hoad

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  • Clara Schumann - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17.

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad - My Fleeting Angel, 2011
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  • Franz Schubert - Trio in B-flat Major D898

Tickets: 
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Feb
17
7:30 PM19:30
Minerva Piano Trio

Conway Hall - Piano Trio Recital

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Clara Schumann 
Trio in G minor Op.17


Ravel arr. David Knotts
Scenes from Daphnis and Chloé

Schubert
Trio in B flat D.898

Composer and Royal Academy of Music professor David Knotts’ arrangement of Ravel provides the centrepiece for the Minerva Trio’s appearance at Conway Hall. Clara Schumann’s G minor trio also gets a rare outing, before Schubert’s evergreen B flat trio concludes the evening’s programme.

https://conwayhall.org.uk/event/minerva-piano-trio/

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Mar
9
7:30 PM19:30
Minerva Piano Trio

DANCE AND POETIC FANTASY - St. John’s Smith Square (Minerva Piano Trio)

DANCE AND POETIC FANTASY
Minerva Piano Trio - St. John’s Smith Square Young Artists 

Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat, KV 502, 1786
Ravel transcr. David Knotts Scenes from Daphnis and Chloe, 2017
transcribed for piano trio with dance choreography (WORLD PREMIERE)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad - My Fleeting Angel, 2011
Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor, 1914
Michal Ćwiżewicz (violin), Richard Birchall (cello), Annie Yim (piano), Patricia Okenwa (choreography), Thomasin Gülgeç (dance), Estela Merlos (dance)

Dance, poetry, and storytelling are inextricably linked in the Minerva Piano Trio’s second concert of the series at St John’s Smith Square, collaborating with the dance and art world in association with MusicArt London. With a newly commissioned piano trio transcription by David Knotts plus dance choreography, the Minerva Trio adapts Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe – the legendary Ballets Russes commission – for the concert stage. Inspired by the Greek epic poem by Longus that was set as a romance in late antiquity, Ravel saw the work as “a vast musical fresco…with faithfulness to the Greece of my dreams”. The new transcription with dance evokes its poetic essence, based on Ravel’s own selected scenes transcribed for solo piano and two shortened Orchestral Suites.
My Fleeting Angel by Cheryl Frances-Hoad is based on Sylvia Plath’s short story The Wishing Box about a husband and wife’s disparate dream worlds descending into a dark and macabre fantasy. The three-movement work is “at once so phantasmagorical and tightly structured, so assured in all its aspects and hinting so elegantly at a complex web of experience.” (Malcolm MacDonald). The piece won the Robert Helps Composition Prize in 2006.
Poetry and dance are woven into the fabric of Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor, which was written two years after the premiere of Daphnis and Chloe. The second movement is inspired by a complex Malaysian poetic form, known as the Pantoum, which requires a special pattern of alternating and combining distinct themes.

 

 

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Oct
23
3:00 PM15:00
Minerva Piano Trio

SCHUMANN AND THE YOUNG BRAHMS - St. John’s Smith Square

Young Brahms

THE GENESIS OF MINERVA:
SCHUMANN AND THE YOUNG BRAHMS
Minerva Piano Trio - St. John’s Smith Square Young Artists 2016/17

Schumann Trio in D minor, Op. 63

Richard Birchall Contours (2013/14)

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Brahms Trio in B major, Op. 8a (original version)

 

Michal Ćwiżewicz VIOLIN
Richard Birchall CELLO
Annie Yim PIANO

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