Thursday 24 September 2 pm
The Perivale Piano Trio
Jiafeng Chen (violin)
Tania Lisboa (cello)
Hugh Mather (piano)
Haydn : Piano trio in G major Hob. XV/25 'Gypsy Rondo' (15')
Andante / Adagio / Rondo
Beethoven: Piano trio in B flat Op 97 'Archduke' (41')
Allegro / Scherzo / Andante / Allegro
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Violinist Jiafeng Chen has enjoyed an international career as a soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue, performing with renowned orchestras including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, and the Philharmonia Orchestra. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Paavo Berglund, Paul Goodwin, Lorin Maazel, John Storgårds, and Gilbert Varga, and has appeared as a soloist at prestigious festivals such as the BBC Proms and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. At the age of 16, he won First Prize at the Wieniawski International Competition for Young Violinists in Poland. His early success continued with Second Prize at the Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition in Helsinki, Second Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in the United Kingdom, and Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in Brussels. Since 2017, he has been appointed as a Violin Professor at the Royal College of Music in London. He is currently pursuing a DPhil in Education at the University of Oxford.
Cellist Tania Lisboa' career as a solo cellist has taken her to Japan, Korea, Turkey, Poland, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Canada, South America and the USA. As a recitalist, she performs at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, St Martin in the Fields (London), Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Teatro Municipal, Teatro Cultura Artistica, MASP (Brazil), Palacio Bellas Artes, Festival Cervantino (Mexico), Teatro Teresa Careno (Venezuela) amongst others. Her career started as a young teenager when she was invited to tour Canada, Japan, Korea and Poland with the Orchestre Mondial de la Jeunesse Musicale. In her native country, she won 1 st prize in coveted competitions, such as the ‘Young Interpreters of Brazilian Music-FUNARTE', the ‘Concurso Sul-America de Musica', and ‘Young Soloist of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra'. She was awarded scholarships by the British Council and the Brazilian government to complete her postgraduate studies in Europe, studying with Raphael Wallfish and Richard Markson in London and Maud Tortelier in France. In conjunction with her performing career, Tania is a Professor of Music and Applied Performance Science at the Royal College of Music, where she lectures on Music Memorisation, Digital Learning and Performance Education and supervises numerous Masters and PhD students. She records for Meridian Records and her releases include: Octachord: Virtuoso Duos for violin and cello ; Les Soirées Intimes : Complete works for cello and piano by Gabriel Fauré ; and complete works for cello and piano by Brazilian composers C Guarnieri and H Villa-Lobos, the latter in three volumes, including the complete Piano Trios.
Hugh Mather was born in 1945 and was educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School and Clifton College, Bristol. He gained the FRCO diploma with the Limpus and Reid prizes while still at school, and subsequently the ARCM (piano performers) diploma. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and Westminster Medical School, and was Consultant Physician at Ealing Hospital from 1982 to 2006, before retiring to pursue his musical interests. He continued his piano studies with James Gibb for many years, and gave countless concerts in West London as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He has been Chairman of the Friends of St Mary's Perivale since 2005, and has organized over 2300 concerts in Ealing since then, with over 1670 at St Mary's Perivale. He was recently awarded both Honorary Membership of the RCM and Honorary Associateship of the RAM in recognition of his work in providing concert opportunities for their students.
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