Trio Havisham

***Trio Havisham is an award-winning ensemble, most recently securing 2nd prize at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon in April 2023. They present a varied programme spanning over 200 years of musical history.***

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The performance begins with the final work by American composer Elliot Carter, *Epigrams*. This series of witty, mercurial movements captures the essence of the eponymous ancient Greek literary device in musical form. From here, we rewind to the origins of the piano trio as a genre, with Joseph Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 40 in F-sharp minor, completed during his second trip to London in 1794. Shifting from the classical to the neo-classical, we hear Bohuslav Martinů’s Piano Trio No. 1, composed in Paris in 1930, a piece full of jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies combined with brisk, obsessive counterpoint. The evening concludes with a cornerstone of the repertoire, Franz Schubert’s magnificent Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major. Composed in the final year of his life while gravely ill, it remains a testament to Schubert’s soaring lyricism, exuberant energy, and some of his most innovative harmonic and structural writing.

***This event will last approximately 2 hours, including an interval.***

Presented by Kings Place.

All ages