The Fidelio Trio
Friday 14 February 2025
At 7.00pm
Presenting The Fidelio Trio
The Fidelio Trio make a triumphant series return with a special Valentines night programme of Beethoven, Schubert and Schoenberg – who needs chocolate and champagne when Drogheda Classical Music is in town?
Programme:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in D major Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’
Arnold Schoenberg (arr. Steuermann)
Verklärte Nacht
Franz Schubert
Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major D929
Our artists
FIDELIO TRIO
The …’virtuosic Fidelio Trio’… (Sunday Times) are Darragh Morgan (violin), Tim Gill (cello) and Mary Dullea (piano). Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, they broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WQXR, and have been featured on a Sky Arts documentary. Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, they frequently appear at the Wigmore Hall and at festivals including Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus and Huddersfield. In Ireland they often perform at National Concert Hall, Dublin and international performances extend from Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre to Johannesburg, Beijing Modern Music Festival to National Sawdust New York, Dark Music Days Iceland to Les Jardins Musicaux Neuchâtel.
Their extensive discography includes a Gramophone Magazine Critics’ Choice 2022 of Chamber Music by E J Moeran, and the release of premiere recordings on Mode Records of music by Gerald Barry. Other significant releases include 2 French albums of Ravel and Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Chausson and Satie on Resonus Classics and Philip Glass Head On & Pendulum on Orange Mountain.
Composers that the Trio have premiered music by include, to name a few, Anna Clyne, Michael Nyman, Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Joe Cutler, Ann Cleare, Judith Weir, David Fennessy, Kevin Volans, Linda Buckley, Shirley Thompson and Alexander Goehr.
They have developed work in collaboration with Rambert Dance Company and feature in the film of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles with Yorke Dance Project.
They often perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto including recently with KZN Philharmonic Orchestra South Africa and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and are Artistic Directors of their annual Winter Chamber Music Festival at Belvedere House, Dublin City University.
Book tickets
Individual Concert Tickets are €20 (€18 conc.). Season Ticket €130 (applies to full price tickets only).
TICKETS
€20 (€18 conc.)
U-18 tickets (€8), Student tickets (€10) and a Family Ticket for two adults and two children also available (€50)
WHEN
Friday 14 February 2025
Pre-concert talk at 7.00pm, performance at 7.30pm
WHERE
St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda – Google maps
Buy a full season ticket
Our full season tickets allows you access to all eight concerts throughout the series for only €130!