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Gould
Concert
June
20th
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GOULD PIANO TRIO
Lucy Gould violin
Alice Neary
cello
Benjamin Frith
piano
 Shortlisted
by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2006 as one of the three most
outstanding UK chamber groups, the Gould Piano Trio have established a
reputation as one of the most exciting ensembles to emerge in recent
years, enjoying a career that has taken them to major venues both in the
UK and overseas. Chosen as the
British Rising Stars for the 1998-9 season, the Trio performed
in such prestigious venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully
Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts,
Birmingham Symphony Hall and major halls in Paris, Cologne, Athens and
Vienna.
Festival
appearances have included
Edinburgh
, Cheltenham, City of
London
,
Bath
, Brighton, Spoleto and the BBC Proms, whilst overseas travels have taken
them to
New Zealand
,
South Korea
and
Taiwan
,
South America
and most European countries. They regularly tour to the
USA
, performing in the
Lincoln
Center
, Weil Hall and at the Frick Collection.
In the UK they have appeared at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall,
Purcell Room, LSO St Luke’s, St. George’s Bristol and Queen’s Hall
Edinburgh and gave one of the
first chamber concerts at The Sage, Gateshead as part of an Arts
Council-sponsored Around the Country”national tour.
Both the BBC Symphony and BBC Philharmonic invited the Trio to
perform James MacMillan’s chamber works at their recent MacMillan
festivals. Frequent
broadcasts from these venues have made the Goulds a familiar ensemble to
listeners of BBC Radio 3. In
1999 the Trio started an annual chamber music festival in Corbridge,
Northumberland.
In 2005 the first of three volumes of the complete trios by Brahms
was released on the Quartz label to great acclaim, followed by a recording
of trios by Brahms’s contemporary Robert Fuchs, Editor’s Choice
in Gramophone. The
second volume, including the Clarinet Trio with Robert Plane and the Horn
Trio with David Pyatt, was released last Spring, and will be followed this
year by a recording of the Tchaikovsky Trio. Other recordings include the
two Mendelssohn trios and a disc of works by Bax with clarinettist Robert
Plane, which was shortlisted for a chamber music Gramophone
Award, both for Naxos, and two further projects of works by Stanford and
Ireland They have also recorded a cover disc for BBC Music Magazine,
performing works by Beethoven, Fauré and Brahms.
The Gould Piano Trio have been the recipients of many national and
international awards: First Prize at the Charles Hennen Competition in
Holland
was followed by joint First Prize in the inaugural Melbourne International
Chamber Music Competition in
Australia
. At the 1993 Premio
Vittorio Gui Competition in
Florence
they were awarded the Audience Prize in addition to winning the overall
First Prize. In the
UK
the Trio have won awards from the Tillett and John Tunnell Trusts.
As part of their commitment to extending the piano trio repertoire,
the Goulds have commissioned works and performed many contemporary pieces.
They enjoy coaching young ensembles and giving workshops in schools
and are currently Resident Artists at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Winter/Spring 2007
NOT TO BE ALTERED
WITHOUR PERMISSION
Patron
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Vice-Presidents
The Countess of
Leicester
, The Marquess of Cholmondeley,
Lord Simon of Highbury, Lord Broers
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