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Darragh Morgan | Tim Gill | Mary Dullea

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FIDELIO TRIO 
Join the fabulous FIDELIO TRIO for their FREE online concerts from the 
8th Fidelio Trio  Winter Chamber Music Festival 2020
available now on YouTube now :  www.fideliotriowinterfestival.org

Beethoven - Ravel - Satie / world premieres : Dave Fennessy - Robert Saxton - Josephine Stephenson - Eric Sweeney / and more 

PROGRAMME I
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in Bb, Op 97 ‘Archduke Trio’
David Fennessy: Piano Trio no.2; In Memoriam Spencer Boney
(World premiere; commissioned by Glasdrum for Fidelio Trio with funds from Arts Council of Ireland)

PROGRAMME II 
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin & Cello
Claude Debussy: Syrinx
Josephine Stephenson: Cut Hold for solo cello (Irish Premiere)
Eric Sweeney: Berceuse for Flute and Cello (In memory of composer Eric Sweeney, 1948-2020)
Erik Satie: Je te veux for piano trio (arr. John White; World Premiere)
César Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major

PROGRAMME III 
Joan Trimble: Phantasy Trio
Joan Trimble: The Coolin (for cello and piano)
Robert Saxton: Fantasy Pieces for Piano Trio
(World Premiere; a Fidelio Trio commission with generous funds from the RVW Trust)
FIDELIO TRIO
CMC Salon
Join CMC Director Evonne Ferguson in conversation with Fidelio Trio members Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea about the works programmed, along with contributions from two of the featured composers, Ann Cleare and Donnacha Dennehy.
Ann Cleare - 93 million miles away
Kevin Volans - Piano Trio No. 3 (Le Tombeau des Regrets)
Donnacha Dennehy - Bulb
12 November 2020 18:00
LiveStream
FIDELIO TRIO
PLAYING LIVE!
01 Oct 2020; 
7.30pm GMT
The Fidelio Trio is back LIVE !  ...  at the Royal Holloway University of London. 
The Fidelio Trio are joined by acclaimed violinist Philippa Mo, to explore the chamber music of Ernest Moeran, marking the 70th anniversary of his death in 1950, and a living Irish composer, Deirdre McKay. The programme encompasses some of Moeran’s most evocative chamber music and the exquisite soundworlds McKay constructs from minimal sources and materials.
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FACEBOOK LIVE!
Thursday 23 April
12.30pm GMT
Mary Dullea and Darragh Morgan of the FIDELIO TRIO featured in an hour long programme on RTÈ Lyric radio - 'Sound Out with Ian McGlynn'
Music by Philip Glass, Donnch Dennehy & Kevin Volans 
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FACEBOOK LIVE!
Thursday 23 April
12.30pm GMT
Mary Dullea and Darragh Morgan of the FIDELIO TRIO will give a FB Live performance facilitated by Culture Ireland from their home in London.   
Music of an Irish flavour by Britten, Moeran, Carolan, Raymond Deane, Deirdre McKay, Jane O’Leary, Rhona Clarke
Please join us  - VIEW HERE
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NEW CD RELEASE 
Up by the Roots
Music by Piers Hellawell
​The Fidelio Trio returns to Delphian  Classics for a portrait release of music by composer Piers Hellawell including Up by the Roots, a Fidelio commission setting words by poet Sinéad Morrissey. 
DELPHIAN DCD34223
​Feb 2020
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Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival 

​"The Fidelio Trio’s annual Winter Chamber Music Festival is one of the hidden gems in the Irish music calendar. ... yet another outstanding festival which continues to be a model of good programming ... "

​journalofmusic.com/criticism/miracle-drumcondra
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In the Middle of Things: Chamber Music by Michael Zev Gordon
​The Fidelio Trio returns to Resonus Classics, joined by the acclaimed clarinettist Julian Bliss, to present this album of recent chamber works by British composer Michael Zev Gordon.

Voted in the "Top 100 Albums" by The Sunday Times
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Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival 
29 Nov-1 Dec 2019
Belvedere House at DCU St. Patrick’s Campus, Dublin
 From the Baltic to Beijing - Arensky - Xiaogang Ye - Rachmaninov
Moeran - Brian Irvine  - Rebecca Clarke 
Mozart - Mendelssohn  - Chausson  
Schumann  - Louis Karchin  - Schumann
December 2019
HERE EVERYTHING SHINES
FIDELIO TRIO at VENUS UNWRAPPED AT KINGS PLACE
The FIDELIO TRIO presents an exquisite trio programme which contrasts Rebecca Clarke with her admired contemporary, Maurice Ravel, at Kings Place.
Judith Weir    Piano Trio Two (2004)
Rebecca Clarke    Piano Trio (1921)
Charlotte Bray    Here Everything Shines (2015)
Maurice Ravel    Piano Trio (1914)
November 2019
The FIDELIO TRIO perform the works of John Casken at the Sound Festival in Aberdeen, in association with the University of Aberdeen.
​October 2019
The FIDELIO TRIO, perform Schoenberg’s expressionist masterpiece Verklaerte Nacht at St. Mary's Church and Music @ Malling. The concert also includes Faure’s late masterpiece the Piano Trio in D, Op.120
September 2019
The FIDELIO TRIO presents an exquisite trio programme which contrasts Rebecca Clarke with her admired contemporary, Maurice Ravel, at Kings Place.
November 2019
The FIDELIO TRIO, enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, will perform six new works from emerging Irish composers as part of the Irish Composers’ Collective 2019 series at the National Concert Hall.
​July 2019
Head On, a concert by the FIDELIO TRIO at the Recital Hall of the Central Conservatory of Music as part of the Beijing Modern Music Festival. With works from the likes of Ann Cleare, Donnacha Dennehy, Judith Weir, Philip Glass, Bright Sheng, Xiaogang YE and Joe Cutler. 
​May 2019
From April 4th-6th 2019, the Fidelio Trio will be performing three concerts with Ireland's RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, in Galway, Dublin, and Waterford. They will be playing Beethoven's Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano, conducted by Thomas Kemp.
​For more info, click here.
As part of the North Devon Classical Festival from March 11th-17th, the Fidelio Trio are participating in several performances and masterclasses at schools in the area, as well as concerts at Birmingham's Barber Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum in London, performing Michael Zev Gordon, and two at Barnstaple Queens Theatre with the North Devon Sinfonia, playing French piano trio music and Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
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FIDELIO TRIO FEATURED ON JOE CUTLER PORTRAIT CD 'ELSEWHERENESS'

Fidelio Trio performs commissioned piece 'McNulty' on new Joe Cutler CD released on NMC, October 2018
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P E N D U L U M 
KINGS PLACE - TIME UNWRAPPED
Thursday 27 September – 8pm
"an American master.”
The New Yorker on David Lang
"music of fresh vigorous invention…endlessly inventive"
Financial Times on Kevn Volans
"dynamic and colorful and mysterious all at once"
Martin Scorsese on Philip Glass
"unpredictable, otherworldly, joyous"
New York Times on John Zorn 
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FIDELIO TRIO
at the University of York - Beethoven, Schubert & Roger Marsh plus composer workshops
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FIDELIO TRIO
at COMA's Festival of Contemporary Music for All - workshops, concerts and  premieres - Cardiff University School of Music 
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writ large in China during their current tour ! 
​March 2018
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FIDELIO TRIO
releases PENDULUM on Orange Mountain Music - Philip Glass Premiere Recording  - 
​March 2018
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FIDELIO TRIO
newsletter
spring 2018

what we've been up to ... and How you can Support the Fidelio Trio

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FIDELIO TRIO WEEKENDS
Join the FIDELIO TRIO for their new residency at the recently restored Kevin Barry Recital Rooms at the National Concert Hall, Dublin for 2 weekends of some of the world's greatest piano trios.   
Sat 28 Oct, 11am | Sun 29 Oct, 3pm
Sat 03 Feb, 11am | Sun 04 Feb, 3pm
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Biography

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The …virtuosic Fidelio Trio… (Sunday Times) are Darragh Morgan, violin, Adi Tal, cello and Mary Dullea, piano.  Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, the Fidelio Trio are enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, performing the widest possible range of repertoire on concert stages across the world; they are broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC, NPR and featured on Sky Arts documentaries; they have a impressive list of commissions and first performances from the leading and newest composers and have a large discography of highly acclaimed recordings.  

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Media

FIDELIO TRIO
Ravel in the night
Join us in a dreamworld of mechanical toys and night-time antics in this unusual performance of Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello. Played by Darragh Morgan and Timothy Gill.
directed by JONATHAN BERMAN for Greengage Ventures
​Nov 2020
Part of: FOUND SPACES
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​​Reviews

"Right from the gentle opening...it was obvious that a musical treat was in store —and so it proved"
Irish Examiner

"The sound of this trio is irresistable"
The Herald    

"Ravel’s Piano Trio was a lyric upwelling … the Fidelio players brought it off superbly, and it was a joy."
The Sunday Times     

"The Fidelio Trio are dedicated to contemporary music and to commissioning new work, combining freshness with a nicely matter-of-fact approach.…were faithful to the spirit and transfigurative beauty of the music."
The Guardian ​

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Feature

Picture

​The FIDELIO TRIO start their BEYOND BORDERS tour with world premiere of UP BY THE ROOTS by poet Sinéad Morrissey and composer Piers Hellawell.  Supported by PRS for Music Foundation 
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Gallery & Press Kit

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Repertoire

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Contact

General Management

Andrew Logan | Director
info@loganartsmanagement.com
T : +44 (0) 141 404 7444
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www.fideliotrio.com