Lion Walk Precinct, Colchester, Essex CO1 1LX - Lion Walk Church

- Wednesday 26th March 2025

The two works which make up this programme were written by composers associated during their lifetime more with the organ than the violin. Nevertheless, these two compositions have become ‘bestsellers’ in the violin canon! - Read More→

Lion Walk Precinct, Colchester, Essex CO1 1LX - Lion Walk Church

- Wednesday 19th March 2025

Cellist Veronica Henderson and I are excited to be performing in the historic town of Colchester with a programme which takes the audience on a journey from Leipzig of the 1730/40s to Scotland in the 1980s.  We open our programme with the first sonata in G major BWV 1027 composed for viola da gamba and harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. - Read More→

Church Path, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1JP - St Mary's church

- Wednesday 12th March 2025

For a small country Belgium has produced not only several influential and virtuoso violinists in the last couple of centuries, but also many very fine composers. We open our programme with two short pieces by Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe, dubbed the “King of the Violin”. Born in Liège in 1858, his playing was renowned for its expressive vibrato and his command of rubato. - Read More→

Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BP - All Saints' Church, The Painted Church

- Sunday 02nd February 2025

Cellist Veronica Henderson and I are excited to be performing our first concert of 2025 in Cambridge at All Saints’ Church, better known as the Painted Church. Dating from the 1860s, the church boasts exceptional hand painted walls, and spectacular stained glass by many Victorian artists including William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Ford Madox Brown. It is generally considered to be one of the finest examples of Victorian Gothic design in the country. - Read More→

31 St Saviourgate, York YO1 8NQ - York Unitarian Chapel

- Saturday 07th December 2024

The next performance of Art Sung – Edith Sitwell will be in York as part of the York Late Music series on Saturday 7th December which nearly coincides exactly with Edith’s death, 60 years ago, on 9th December 1964. York Late Music has been championing new music for over 20 years and they organise a very creative and diverse series of concerts throughout the year. Our semi-dramatized recital Art Sung – Edith Sitwell, Behind her Façade is a celebration of the legendary 20th century poet Dame Edith Sitwell. - Read More→

Pond Square Chapel, Highgate, London, N6 6BA - Highgate United Reformed Church

- Sunday 17th November 2024

This recital is a collaboration with Novanda productions who have just been performing their play, "The Dedication", in London. Our recital is a celebration of Alma Mahler's songs alongside music by Gustav Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Hans Pfitzner, and Richard Wagner. Linking this will be a narration read by the director of The Dedication, Kenneth Michaels. - Read More→

4 Church Street, Peterborough, PE1 1XB - St John the Baptist Church

- Tuesday 08th October 2024

In 19th-century Europe, before music was easily accessible as it is now at the click of a button, there were two ways to listen to orchestral music or the latest opera: either at your local concert hall or opera house, or you played it at home yourself. Arrangements of symphonies, overtures and operas proliferated for various instrumental combinations but the most popular arrangements were for piano duet. What better way to reproduce the rich sounds of an orchestra! Also, in a society which did not encourage close contact, sitting next to each other, ‘accidentally’ bumping hands in the service of making music would not have raised any eyebrows! - Read More→

Florence Works, North London - By invitation only. Please let me know if you would like to attend.

- Saturday 05th October 2024

Rio Piano Trio is delighted to be returning to Florence Works to play a concert of Trios and Duos ranging from Latin classical to Latin jazz and everything in between. - Read More→

Lion Walk Precinct, Colchester, Essex CO1 1LX - Lion Walk church

- Wednesday 02nd October 2024

Inspired by Brazilian music and especially the classical works of Heitor Villa Lobos, David Chew, a young cellist from Hull, was appointed principal cellist with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in 1981. In 1994 he founded the Rio Cello festival with the goal to make classical music accessible to as many people as possible. It was at this fantastic annual event in 2006 where I met and first started performing with violinist David Johnson who has had a distinguished career with the Gürzenich orchestra in Cologne. Together we formed the Rio Piano Trio, and our goal is to share the rich and exciting world of Brazilian classical music with audiences outside of Brazil. - Read More→

Wilhelm-Wagener-Platz 1, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach. Germany - Bensberger Rathaus (Town Hall)

- Sunday 15th September 2024

Violinist David Johnson and I are delighted to be giving a benefit farewell concert for the philosopher Dr. Gerd B. Achenbach, founder of the International Society for Philosophical Practice in Germany. Together with his partner, Laura, Dr Achenbach will be relocating to the South Tyrolean Ulten Valley in North Italy. After discussions with them both, David and I have devised a programme which celebrates both their long association and contribution to the cultural life of Germany and their move to warmer climes! - Read More→