Thursday 20 March 2.00 pm
Sara Trickey (violin)
Daniel Tong (piano)
Beethoven: Violin sonata in A minor Op 23 (21')
Presto / Andante / Allegro
Fauré: Sicilienne (4')
Beethoven: Violin sonata in G Op 30 no 3 (20')
Allegro / Tempo di minuet / Allegro
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. She 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 studied with Camilla Wicks and also 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 was born in Cornwall and studied in London and spends his musical life performing as 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 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.
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