Trio Casella won the 2024 Piano Trio Society Intercollegiate Competition and has been shortlisted to compete in the 2024 Trio di Trieste International Chamber Music Competition. In 2023 the trio won the Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Competition and St James’s Chamber Music Competition.
A rare chance to hear a flute and bassoon alone fill the stage; Duo Auloi are passionate about exploring lesser-known woodwind pieces, set alongside the more well-known and loved repertoire. Their programme reaches from Austrian Classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to present-day Lithuanian and American composers.
Benjamin Grosvenor has been in the limelight since winning the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at just twelve years old. Still in his early thirties, his career now takes him all over the world and he regularly appears at the BBC Proms. He brings a lovely programme of romantic piano music, pairing Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann alongside one of the blockbusters of the virtuoso piano repertoire, Modest Mussorgsky’s ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition.
This is the most epic journey of them all – Athens to Bucharest. It represents the amazing diversity of rhythm, colourful dances, and powerful story-telling music that the Balkans have to offer.
CAERUS explores a mesmerising but little-known masterpiece by George Enescu, coupled with the ground-breaking, iconic fifth string quartet by Béla Bartók. The third movement, Alla bulgarese, is based on a well-known dance from Bulgaria. Bartók is not only famous for his compositional qualities and artistry but was also a respected musicologist and produced some of the most important folk-music studies in the first half of the 20th century.