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New Music: Leonore Piano Trio

Thu 27 March 2025

Kettle's Yard House and Gallery

The Leonore Trio comprises three of this country’s most acclaimed chamber musicians: Benjamin Nabarro (violin), Gemma Rosefield (cello) and Tim Horton (piano). And here’s a rare chance to hear Harrison Birtwistle’s Trio, which may come as a surprise if you know the violence of his earlier music. In this late work he indulged in beautiful, lavish duets between violin and cello, but the pianist’s role is to regularly hit you with reminders that Birtwistle was once the ‘bad boy’ of British music! Helen Grime’s trio reworks Highland bagpipe music from hundreds of years ago, in which simple ideas are transformed into a dazzling array of musical characters. Natalie Klouda took the love triangle between Johannes Brahms and Clara & Robert Schumann as the starting point for her Fantasy Triptych. And the concert will be bookended with the two masterful piano trios by Huw Watkins.

Doors open at 7.30pm.

Cost: £12 (£5 students)