FIDELIO TRIO
Biography
The …virtuosic Fidelio Trio… (Sunday Times) are Darragh Morgan, violin, Adi Tal, cello and Mary Dullea, piano. Shortlisted for 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, they perform diverse repertoire internationally, broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC, NPR and in 2010 were featured in a Sky Arts documentary. Since their debut at London’s South Bank they have appeared at Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Purcell Room and Royal Opera House, London, festivals including City of London, Cheltenham Music Festival, St. Magnus International Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Brighton, Vale of Glamorgan, West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens and National Concert Hall, Dublin, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Casa da Musica (Porto), Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi and Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice (Italy), Johannesburg Music Society, Symphony Space and SubCulture, New York City, Princeton University and MIT Boston.
Their extensive discography includes Korngold and Schoenberg (Verklärte Nacht arr. Steuermann) on Naxos, the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records, multiple releases on NMC and Delphian Records as well as Convivium and Luke Bedford’s debut portrait CD on Col Legno as Ernst von Siemens composer award winner 2012. This year they will record the Ravel and Saint-Saëns trios for Resonus Classics.
The Fidelio Trio have worked closely with composition and performance students through masterclasses at institutions including Peabody Conservatory John Hopkins University, Curtis Institute of Music, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Manchester, Cardiff University, Cork School of Music, Stellenbosch Conservatorium and WITS Johannesburg. They have been artists-in-residence at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Davenport Residency holders at State University of New York, SUNY and Cheltenham Festival’s Composer Academy.
In promoting contemporary music, they are constantly commissioning new works and the range of leading international composers that The Fidelio Trio are closely associated with includes Toshio Hosokawa, Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud and Michael Nyman. Their many world and UK premieres include Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Evan Ziporyn, Simon Bainbridge, Edison Denisov and Beat Furrer whom they have performed throughout Europe, the USA, South Africa and China.
2015-16 season includes a concert series of French Piano Trios St. John’s Smith Square, London, a residency at University of Birmingham, a tour of India, ‘Beyond Borders’ PRS for Music tour of UK and Ireland in collaboration with composer Piers Hellawell and T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey, festival appearances at Cheltenham and Gregynog and an extensive tour of Asia. From 2012-15 The Fidelio Trio were artists-in-residence St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University where they continue as Artistic Directors of an annual Winter Chamber Music Festival.
April 2016
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Their extensive discography includes Korngold and Schoenberg (Verklärte Nacht arr. Steuermann) on Naxos, the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records, multiple releases on NMC and Delphian Records as well as Convivium and Luke Bedford’s debut portrait CD on Col Legno as Ernst von Siemens composer award winner 2012. This year they will record the Ravel and Saint-Saëns trios for Resonus Classics.
The Fidelio Trio have worked closely with composition and performance students through masterclasses at institutions including Peabody Conservatory John Hopkins University, Curtis Institute of Music, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Manchester, Cardiff University, Cork School of Music, Stellenbosch Conservatorium and WITS Johannesburg. They have been artists-in-residence at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Davenport Residency holders at State University of New York, SUNY and Cheltenham Festival’s Composer Academy.
In promoting contemporary music, they are constantly commissioning new works and the range of leading international composers that The Fidelio Trio are closely associated with includes Toshio Hosokawa, Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud and Michael Nyman. Their many world and UK premieres include Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Evan Ziporyn, Simon Bainbridge, Edison Denisov and Beat Furrer whom they have performed throughout Europe, the USA, South Africa and China.
2015-16 season includes a concert series of French Piano Trios St. John’s Smith Square, London, a residency at University of Birmingham, a tour of India, ‘Beyond Borders’ PRS for Music tour of UK and Ireland in collaboration with composer Piers Hellawell and T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey, festival appearances at Cheltenham and Gregynog and an extensive tour of Asia. From 2012-15 The Fidelio Trio were artists-in-residence St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University where they continue as Artistic Directors of an annual Winter Chamber Music Festival.
April 2016
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