Sunday 9 February 3.00 pm
David Adams (violin)
Isobel Neary-Adams (viola)
Alice Neary (cello)
Viv McLean (piano)
Mozart: Piano quartet in G minor K478 (26')
Allegro / Andante / Rondo
Huw Watkins: String Trio (20')
(7 movements)
Fauré: Piano quartet in C minor Op 15 (32')
Allegro / Scherzo / Adagio / Allegro
David Adams (violin) is leader of the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera and performs with the London Bridge Trio. In his role at WNO David has performed several concertos with the orchestra and enjoys directing concerts from the violin. Equally at home on violin and viola, David makes regular guest appearances, recordings and broadcasts with the Nash Ensemble, Endellion String Quartet, Gould Piano Trio and Hebrides Ensemble. He has recorded the complete Brahms Piano Quartets with the Gould Piano Trio and the Beethoven String Quintets with the Endellion String Quartet. He regularly attends the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. David also appears as guest leader with most of the orchestras in the UK including the Hallé, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and also the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Coming from a musical family, his father was Principal Viola of the Halle Orchestra and he is married to the cellist Alice Neary. Together Alice and David are Artistic Directors of the Penarth Chamber Music Festival which takes place each summer in Penarth Pier Pavilion. After being encouraged and guided by his father, his principal teachers include Daniel Phillips, Zvi Zeitlin, Malcolm Layfield and Misha Amory (viola).
Isobel Neary-Adams (viola) is currently studying with David Takeno alongside being in the second year of her Music degree at the University of Oxford as an academic and music scholar. She cultivated her passion for chamber music at MusicWorks, Festival Resonances Academy (Belgium) and more recently IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music seminar. This November and December she participated in Maiastra chamber music projects with David Waterman and Florence Cooke. She has also recently played in the Holywell music room, Oxford, West Road concert hall, Cambridge and at Frinton, Wye Valley and Winchester Chamber Music Festivals. In April 2023 she attended the Masterclasses at IMS Prussia Cove in Thomas Reibl's class. She was co principal viola of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and has recently started working with Sinfonia Cymru. She is hugely grateful to Oxford University for enabling collaborations with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Mendelssohn octet) and the Castalian Quartet (Brahms sextet). Isobel is looking forward to performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in February with Fidelio Orchestra Oxford, and the first movement of Walton's viola concerto in the final of the Oxford Philharmonic concerto competition in March. She has upcoming chamber music engagements as Young Artist in residence at 2024 Penarth Chamber Music Festival and with the newly formed Telyn Quartet.
Alice Neary (cello) enjoys a varied performing career as a chamber musician and principal cellist of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Familiar to listeners of BBC Radio 3, she has performed at major festivals including BBC Proms chamber series, Malboro (USA), Bath International, Santa Fe (USA) and Lofoten and played concertos with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Liverpool Philharmonic and Israel Symphony. Her discography includes the Mendelssohn cello sonatas and concertos by Howells, Patterson and Tovey. She was a member of the Gould Piano Trio from 2001 to 2018 - career highlights include the complete piano trios of Beethoven, Schubert and Dvorak at the Wigmore Hall, the commissioning of new works from Sir James MacMillan and Mark Simpson, regular tours and over 25 CD releases. Alice collaborates with pianists Viv McLean, Benjamin Frith, Robin Green and Daniel Tong and has appeared as guest cellist with the Nash Ensemble, Ensemble 360 and the Endellion quartet. Regular visits to International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove provide ongoing inspiration. She has been a tutor in cello at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music and is now based in her hometown of Cardiff at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she was awarded a Fellowship in 2015. She and her husband, David Adams founded the Penarth Chamber Music Festival in 2014. Alice plays a cello by Alessandro Gagliano of 1710. Alice studied with Ralph Kirshbaum at the Royal Northern College of Music and, as a Fulbright scholar, with Timothy Eddy at Stonybrook, USA. As winner of the 1998 Pierre Fournier Award, Alice made her début at the Wigmore Hall in 1999.
Viv McLean (piano), since winning First Prize at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, has performed in all the major venues in the UK, as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA. He has performed concertos with orchestras such as the RPO, Philharmonia Orchestra, LPO, English Chamber Orchestra, Halle, BBC Concert Orchestra & the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of such conductors as Daniel Harding, Wayne Marshall, Christopher Warren-Green, Owain Arwell Hughes, Carl Davis, Rebecca Miller and Marvin Hamlisch. Viv has collaborated with groups such as the Leopold String Trio, Ensemble 360, the Ysaye Quartet, the Sacconi String Quartet, members of the Elias, Allegri, Carducci and Tippett Quartets, and artists such as Natalie Clein, Daniel Hope, Lawrence Power, David Le Page, Adrian Brendel and Mary Bevan. Viv has appeared at many festivals including the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Festival des Saintes in France, Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden in Norway and the Cheltenham International Festival in the UK. He has recorded for Sony, Naxos, Nimbus, Stone Records, RPO Records and ICSM Records. Viv has also recorded regularly for BBC Radio 3 as well as for radio in Germany, France, Australia, Norway and Poland.
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