The Lawson Trio is rapidly being recognised as one of the UK's finest young chamber ensembles. Recent performance highlights for the piano trio have included appearances at London's Southbank Centre and the Bath International Festival. To find out more, click here.
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Next performances:
We have a Music in the Round concert in Newcastle-under-Lyme on Monday 23rd April - the programme includes works by Mozart, Debussy, David Knotts and Brahms, and we will be giving a pre-concert talk at 6pm.
We're at the Yehudi Menuhin School on Thursday 3rd May in a concert that celebrates the Olympics, performing Cheryl Frances-Hoad's 5 Rackets for Trio Relay with students from the school. The programme will also include performances by us of Debussy's Trio and Piers Hellawell's Etruscan Games, and all sorts of exciting things played by students at the Menuhin School.
Our final Music in the Round concert is in Portsmouth on Friday 18th May. The programme is as for 23rd April, and we will be doing a post-concert Q&A session.
Sunday 20th May we will be back at ChamberStudio, Kings Place for a masterclass with the celebrated Schmuel Ashkenasi. There will be a drinks reception afterwards for anyone joining ChamberStudio's new Supporters' Circle - definitely something to consider! If you would like more info about that, please email us!
Our penultimate concert in the Grand Tour Lunchtime Series as SAMSensemble at St. Anne's Gresham Street is on Friday 1st June. It will be an all-American programme.
We will be doing a lunchtime concert at St. George, Hanover Square as part of the Orpheus Foundation concert series on Wednesday 6th June.
Our third Purcell Room concert of the year is a Park Lane Group 80th Birthday Celebration for composer Hugh Wood. The programme will comprise works by Hugh and some of his favourite chamber composers performed by a whole host of wonderful musicians. We will perform Hugh's Piano Trio op. 24 as well as Haydn's E flat Trio Hob XV:30.
See all forthcoming concerts here
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Latest news:
Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Purcell Room concert on 10th April, listened on Radio 3 or online, bought copies of the new CD and sent messages of support! We are hugely grateful to all of you! Our premiere of Anthony Powers' new Piano Trio (described by Andrew Clements in The Guardian as 'wistfully attractive') was chosen for the BBC Radio Editors Collection Classical Highlights, and will be available for the next few weeks.
You can read interviews we've done with composers David Knotts, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Camden Reeves and Anthony Powers ahead of the 10.4.12 CD launch and Southbank Centre Recital on the Interviews page! The Southbank have also been blogging about us - and have included sneak previews of Cheryl's Five Rackets for Trio Relay and Anthony Powers' Piano Trio. And if all of that wasn't enough, we're also uploading Fenella's Blog to the Latest page as we do our last 10 days of preparation for the concert!
You can read a review of the newly reworked Gordon Crosse Trio we premiered at the Purcell Room on Thursday on the Telegraph website. The concert also received a four-star review in The Times.
We've just finished recording our first CD for ASC, which will be launched at our Purcell Room recital on 10th April 2012 - you can follow the link to book tickets through the Southbank Centre already! Thanks to composers Camden Reeves, David Knotts, Anthony Powers, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Cheryl Frances-Hoad for their help and wonderful music, Ryan Drucker, Henrietta Hill and Ellie Davidson for their fabulous playing, Ariane and Peter Lawson for looking after us, and Cheryl also for amazing producing! We will be interviewing featured composers over the months leading up to the release - you can now read the first of these with David Knotts on our Interviews page.
Read about our latest adventures here, including news about our residency in Aldeburgh, and our most recent trip to Australia for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. |
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Annabelle Lawson - Piano
Fenella Humphreys - Violin
Rebecca Knight - 'Cello |
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