Da Vinci Trio to paint Wee Toon with music
CAMPBELTOWN is once again privileged to be hosting some world-class classical musicians tonight when the Da Vinci Trio, Scotland’s most distinguished piano trio, will be performing at the Kintyre Music Club.
The Trio will also visit Dalintober and Castlehill primary schools, where they will be playing for the children, giving them a wonderful opportunity to experience, up close, something of the joy of chamber music.
The programme for the evening concert will be Haydn Piano Trio No. 39 in G major Hob. XV/25 (Gypsy Rondo), followed by Debussy Piano Trio in G and Brahms Piano Trio Opus 8 in B major.
The show at the Lorne and Lowland Church Hall will begin at 7.30pm, with tickets £10 for adults, while children and students can attend free.
A spokesperson for the Music Club said: ‘We are very grateful to the Rotary Club for helping fund these workshops for the children.’
Broadcast
The Trio, who play and broadcast widely in the UK, consists of a Glaswegian cellist, a violinist from the Scottish Borders and an Italian pianist.
Robert Irvine, cello, who is a founder member of the Da Vinci Piano Trio, studied at the Royal College of Music and after leaving the RCM studied with William Pleeth and Pierre Fournier, before joining the Philharmonia as sub principal cellist. He also worked extensively at Aldeburgh, forming the Brindisi String Quartet and working closely with Sir Peter Pears as continuo cellist and as principal cellist of the Britten Pears Orchestra. At this time he toured much of Europe with the Brindisi Quartet, making numerous festival appearances and broadcasts. He is also a senior professor of Cello and Chamber Music, and Head of Cello Studies at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire (formerly RSAMD) in Glasgow.
Anthony Moffat, violin, was trained at the Royal Academy of Music, London by Armenian Soloist and orchestra leader, Manoug Parikian where he gained the highest award for violin on his graduation in 1987 winning the Marjorie Hayward Prize. As a member of the Da Vinci Piano Trio he has toured the breadth
of the country and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His career as orchestra leader began as co-leader of the Hallé Orchestra until he took the post of leader of the orchestra at Scottish Opera in 2000. He has appeared as guest leader with the BBC Concert Orchestra, recently recording Ladies in Lavender for Friday Night is Music Night
with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He plays on a fine violin by Giovanni Grancino made in 1695.
Mario Montore, piano, was born in Cosenza in 1985. He began studying the piano at the age of four and graduated at a very young age with academic honours and an honorable mention from the Conservatoire of Cosenza. In June 2007 he completed a PhD in Chamber Music with Maestro Rocco Filippini at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, and was awarded the ‘Premio Guarino’ which is reserved for the best students only. His acknowledged chamber music experience includes playing with the Avos Quartet who won Italy’s two most prestigious Chamber Music Competitions in 2009. As a solo performer, he has won ore than 40 national and international competitions, and has taken part in more than 300 concerts as a soloist, with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Italy and abroad, including Switzerland, Spain, Holland, Romania and Japan.
For further details see kintyremusicclub.co.uk