£10
60 minutes
The Hearn Recital Room
Mon 20 May 2024, 1.10pm

Music

Lunchtime Recital: Waldstein Trio

£10
60 minutes
The Hearn Recital Room
Mon 20 May 2024, 1.10pm

Christos Fountos piano
Greta Papa violin
Miguel Ángel Villeda cello

Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello, M.73
Peter Fribbins ‘Softly, in the dusk’
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

The Waldstein Trio achieved significant early success as prize winners at the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition at Wigmore Hall in 2022. They were then offered the Carne Trust Junior Fellowship by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Muic and Dance. In 2023 the won the 1st Prize at the “4th Vienna International Music Competition”, leading to a performance in the Musikverein-Brahms Saal, Vienna; followed by an invitation to take part in the Evolution Chamber Music Course in the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity in Canada.On their return to London the Trio was offered a second year of Fellowship at Trinity Laban and went on to win First Prize in the “Medici International Music Competition”, Gold Prize and the Special Award for Best Professional Chamber Ensemble in the “Amadeus International Music Awards”, Third Prize in the “Rising Stars Grand Prix 2023” in Berlin and First Prize in the “Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition” in Bonn.

Future performances include concerts in Germany and Mexico, as well as performing independently as soloists with orchestras in the UK.