St Barnabas Summer Proms 2009 (10)
Wednesday August 5th at 7.30 pm
The Gould Piano Trio
Lucy Gould (violin)
Alice Neary (cello)
Benjamin Frith (piano)
with
David Adams (viola)
Schubert : Piano Trio in E flat
Brahms : Piano Quartet in G minor
Admission £10. No tickets needed beforehand.
The Gould Piano Trio has established a reputation as one of the most stylish and versatile ensembles performing today. Highly regarded in the field of chamber music, they enjoy a career that takes them to major venues in the United Kingdom and overseas. Chosen as British Rising Stars for the 1998-9 season, the Trio has performed in such prestigious venues as New York 's Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts, Birmingham Symphony Hall and major halls in Paris , Cologne , Athens and Vienna . Festival appearances have included Edinburgh , Cheltenham, Bath , Spoleto and the BBC Proms, while overseas travels have taken them to New Zealand , South Korea and Taiwan , South America and most European countries. They regularly tour to the United States , and in the United Kingdom they appear at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Purcell Room, LSO St Luke's, Queen's Hall Edinburgh, and many other venues. Both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic invited the Trio to perform James MacMillan's chamber works at their festivals. Frequent broadcasts from these venues have made the Goulds a familiar ensemble to listeners of BBC Radio 3. Their recordings include the complete trios by Brahms, Robert Fuchs, (which was listed as Editor's Choice in The Gramophone magazine), Tchaikovsky and, for Naxos , Mendelssohn. In 1999 the Trio started its own annual chamber music festival in Corbridge. National and international awards include First Prize at the Charles Hennen Competition in Holland , joint First Prize in the inaugural Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in Australia , Audience Prize and First Prize at the 1993 Premio Vittorio Gui Competition in Florence , with British awards from the Tillett and John Tunnell Trusts.
Lucy Gould founded the Gould Piano Trio whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded the prestigious Queen's Commendation for Excellence. She has performed much of the concerto repertoire with various UK orchestras, and has led the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields , Halle , BBC Philharmonic, BBC NOW and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. She is a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and teaches at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Lucy lives in Cardiff with her husband, the clarinettist Robert Plane, and their three children.
Alice Neary (cello) studied at Chethams School and the Royal Northern School of Music, under Ralph Kirshbaum. She won the prestigious Fournier Award in 1998, and was awarded a major prizes in the 2001 Leonard Rose International Cello Competition and the 1997 Adam International Cello Competition in New Zealand . She won the string section of the Royal Overseas League Competition in 1996, and won silver medal in the 1994 Shell/LSO competition. She has performed concertos with many leading UK orchestras, given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Manchester International Cello Festival, as well as frequent broadcasts on Radio 3. She lives in Ealing, and teaches at the Royal College of Music.
Benjamin Frith studied with Fanny Waterman in Leeds , and won the UK Dudley National Piano Competition at 14. He subsequently shared top prize in the 1986 Busoni International Piano Competition, and 1st prize in the 1989 Artur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, making his debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 1992 with Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Today he has made 17 solo discs and performed with many of the great orchestras and conductors. A life long interest in chamber music was realised in his becoming a member of the Gould Piano Trio in 1998.
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