Concerts in Association with the German YMCA in London
Programme
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Lancaster Hall Hotel
35 Craven Terrace
London W2 3EL
Doors open at 18h30
Drinks and Snacks available at our bar
The Artists
presents
Dancing with Beethoven
Sonatas & Dances
with
Sara Trickey
Violin
and
Daniel Tong
Piano
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 19h00
Lancaster Hall Hotel
Sara Trickey
Sara Trickey enjoys an exciting and diverse career as a solo violinist and chamber musician. Noted for her “fiery and passionate” performances (The Strad) and her “beautifully refined tone” (Musical Opinion), she performs at many of the major UK festivals and venues, including in the Presteigne, Alwyn, Oxford May Music, York, Ashburton, and Wye Valley Chamber Music festivals.
She plays regularly with pianist Dan Tong with whom she has recorded the Schubert Sonatinas to critical acclaim (“Irresistible!” – Barry Millington). A CD of Fauré and David Matthews has recently been released by Deux-Elles. She also made a world premiere recording of Mathias’ violin sonatas with Iwan Llewelyn Jones.
Sara has performed most of the repertoire for violin and orchestra, with orchestras that include the City of London Sinfonia and the Orchestra of St John’s (“The Beethoven violin concerto was quite simply perfection” – Seen and Heard International). She recently recorded the David Matthews double concerto for violin and viola with the English Symphony Orchestra and violist Sarah-Jane Bradley.
She is a founder member of the Odysseus Piano Trio and is currently a member of The Rossetti Ensemble. She plays in a violin duo with Andrew Watkinson, leader of the Endellion Quartet. Prior to forming these groups, Sara led the Bronte String Quartet for six years, winning the Royal Overseas League competition and second prize in the Cremona International Quartet competition.
Sara recently curated her own project Dancing with Apollo at Kings Place as part of the Spitalfields Festival. This was a multi-media project based around Greek myth. As well as music for violin and piano it included narration and dance involving collaborations with Dame Marina Warner, choreographer Kim Brandstrup and pianist Ivana Gavric.
She has also collaborated recently with Joffrey Ballet, based in Chicago, and choreographer Cathy Marston to create the short film Bertha with a score written for her playing solo violin accompanied by hand pans by Errollyn Wallen.
Sara studied with Camilla Wicks and was very much influenced by her studies at IMS Prussia Cove. She read Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and this continues to be a passion. She also enjoys teaching, primarily at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Daniel Tong
Daniel Tong spends his musical life performing as a soloist and chamber musician, writing and teaching.
Outside the UK he has recently performed in France, Belgium, and Portugal. After his first solo CD of works by Schubert, Gramophone magazine described him as 'an extraordinarily sympathetic Schubertian.' He has performed concertos at St Martin-in-the-Fields and Kings Place in London, and as soloist in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto (London) and Shostakovich No. 2 (Birmingham). He has recorded the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven on period instruments with Robin Michael for Resonus Classics, and his first solo release on fortepiano (2022), the Op. 10 Beethoven Sonatas, has gathered considerable attention.
Praised by The Guardian for his ‘masterly pianism', Daniel has collaborated with the Elias, Navarra, Heath, Callino, Dante, Carducci, and Allegri quartets as well as singers Ivan Ludlow, James Gilchrist, Mary Bevan, Stephan Loges, and Paul Agnew. Daniel’s London Bridge Trio have been regular visitors to London’s Wigmore Hall and BBC Radio 3 for twenty years, with a substantial discography that includes a shortlisting for the Gramophone Chamber Music Award (Frank Bridge Chamber Works Vol. II on Dutton). Each year Daniel plays with an array of wonderful individual artists, often at his own chamber festival; founded in 1999, the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival attracts many renowned chamber musicians to spend ten days making music in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Daniel’s Beethoven Plus project has been a vibrant addition to his life over recent years. Alongside Krysia Osostowicz, he commissioned ten new works to partner the Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin, all of which premiered in 2015. The duo went on to perform the cycle numerous times across the UK, culminating at Cedars Hall, Wells, where they recorded all twenty works for SOMM Recordings. The cycle became the subject of Daniel’s PhD and he is currently authoring a book on Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas.
Daniel is Head of Performance at Junior Academy and Head of Piano in Chamber Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. For seven years he has directed a summer course for talented young musicians as part of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival.