Next Concert - Saturday 29th March 2025 at 7.30 pm

Paddington Trio

We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming concert on featuring the acclaimed Paddington Trio. This performance marks the penultimate event of our 2024-2025 season, leading up to our 50th anniversary celebrations commencing in September 2025, which will include seven exceptional concerts.

The Paddington Trio recently received a glowing five-star review from The Guardian (below) for their performance at Kings Place, London, highlighting their remarkable unity and expressive musicianship.
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We look forward to sharing this exciting musical experience with you.

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Extract of The Guardian Article - 

The unpredictability of concert life is not its only allure – or, for some of us, addiction – but nothing is more rewarding than being ambushed unexpectedly. The Paddington Trio, making their Kings Place debut, were new to me, though it turns out they have won numerous first prizes in the four years since they began playing together. I see why. 

Their programme of Mendelssohn (Trio No 2 in C minor), Sam Perkin (Freakshow, 2016), Ellen Lindquist (Shining Through, 2023) and Shostakovich (Piano Trio No 2 in E minor) looked intriguing enough on paper: two familiar masterworks, two novelties. It proved ever more revelatory as the concert progressed.

​These virtuosic musicians – Finnish violinist Tuulia Hero, Irish cellist Patrick Moriarty and American pianist Stephanie Tang – play as one, hardly needing to refer to the music. That they lean in and bend towards each other need make no difference to their musicality: that very act can sometimes appear an affectation. Not here. They lived every note. Shostakovich completed his second trio in 1944, dedicating it to a close friend who died during the course of its wartime composition. Its four movements encompass the gamut of emotion, from the muted cello harmonics of the opening lament to the wild maelstrom of grief in the finale, based on a Jewish dance theme. The work ends, as if exhausted, with a whispered, major key chord: stoicism, sufferance, release. Music can take you anywhere, when played like this.

Article: Sat. 1st Feb. 2025

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