Concert Details
| Concert: | Concerts with The Wass, Trusler, Chaushian Trio |
| Date: | Tuesday 31 May |
| Time: | 8:00pm |
| Tickets: | £15 |
| U18 Tickets: | £ |
| Vienna – The Capital of Music For just over a hundred years from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, Vienna was hailed as the capital of European music. This mini-festival by three of the country’s leading chamber musicians explores this extraordinary inheritance. The brilliant British pianist Ashley Wass will be joined by Matthew Trusler (violin) and cellist Alexander Chaushian. Tuesday 31 May 8.00pm Mozart Piano Trio in C major, K. 548 Zemlinsky Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 3 Brahms Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8 Wednesday 1 June 8.00pm Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 1, No. 1 Schubert “Notturno” for Piano Trio in E flat major, D. 897 Schoenberg VerklärteNacht, Op. 4 (arr. Steuermann) Thursday 2 June 8.00pm Haydn Piano Trio in C major, Hob.XV:27 Brahms Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 97 “Archduke” TICKETS Individual Concerts £15 Individual Pre-concert talks (including tea & cake on arrival) £8 Pre-concert suppers (three courses and coffee) £22 Combined talk, supper and concert £42 Subscription ticket for all concerts £40 Subscription ticket for all talks (including tea & cake on arrival) £21 Subscription ticket for all talks, suppers and concerts £126 |
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Artiste Information
Ashley Wass (pianist) has given recitals at most of the UK's major venues including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, LSO St Luke's, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festive Hall, The Sage, Bridgewater Hall and at the festivals of Bath, Cheltenham, Brighton and the City of London. His concerto performances have included Beethoven and Brahms with the Philharmonia, Mendelssohn and Beethoven with the Orchestre National de Lille and Mozart with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Konzerthaus. He has also worked with Sir Simon Rattle and the CBSO, Sinfonia Viva, the London Mozart Players and all the BBC orchestras.
Ashley Wass studied at Chethams Music School and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, becoming an associate in 2002. In 2008 he joined the piano faculty of the Royal College of Music.
Matthew Trusler (violin) Hailed by The Times as “an authentic, though British, virtuoso” Matthew Trusler graduated from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music in 1998. Following the release of Matthew’s disc – Blues – The Daily Telegraph declared that 'Trusler assumes the Heifetz (and Perlman) mantle with ease'. A passionate lover of the style and approach to violin playing during the Heifetz era, Trusler performs with one of Heifetz’s bows, given to him by Herbert Axelrod (who himself received it from Heifetz). Trusler has a particular affinity for the composers of that period, receiving much acclaim for his performances of concertos by Walton, Berg, Britten, Prokofiev and Korngold.
Matthew Trusler has been invited to perform as a recitalist and concerto soloist throughout Europe, Australia, the USA, Japan and South Africa. In the UK he has performed with most of the major orchestras, and has appeared further afield with the Minnesota Orchestra, NDR Hanover, Helsinki Philharmonic, Deutsche Symphony Berlin, Malaysian Philharmonic and Johannesburg Philharmonic. Some of his personal highlights include tours with the Australian orchestras (including appearances in Perth, Queensland and Tasmania), a tour of Germany with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Sir Neville Marriner, and a tour of Mexico with Martyn Brabbins and the Philharmonia.
Alongside his concerto work Matthew Trusler is an accomplished recitalist and an avid chamber musician. Trusler has performed frequently with Wayne Marshall, and the duo’s recent disc – Blues –presents a collection of short pieces by composers directly influenced by jazz. The CD was released to huge critical acclaim, including CD of the week in the Telegraph, CD of the week on Classic FM, and Recital CD of the month in Strad Magazine. Collaborations with other eminent musicians have included Piotr Anderszewski, Martin Roscoe, Peter Donohoe, Imogen Cooper, Leonidas Kavakos, Lynn Harrell, and Joseph Silverstein. Trusler has performed recitals in leading venues around the world including the Wigmore Hall in London, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.
Future collaborations include a recording of violin and viola repertoire with Lawrence Power, trio performances with Guy Johnston and Huw Watkins, and several film collaborations with conductor and composer Carl Davis, including the world premiere of Davis' piece for violin and orchestra, Anne Frank Remembered.
Trusler founded Orchid Classics in 2005 as a creative extension to his love of performance. Distributed internationally by Naxos, the label is developing projects with artists including Joan Rodgers, Guy Johnston, James Gilchrist and Lawrence Power. Trusler's new recording of violin concertos by Korngold and Rozsa, with the Dusseldorf Symphony under Yasuo Shinozaki, will be released this September. Orchid Classics supports The Lenny Trusler Children's Foundation (LTCF) of which Trusler is a Founder.
Trusler has a passion for film, and has recently acted as a consultant on the adaptation of Norman Lebrecht's novel The Song of Names for film, the screenplay being written by Jeffrey Caine (Oscar Nominee for The Constant Gardener). Earlier this year, Trusler recorded the violin solos for the soundtrack of a new French film by director Frédéric Mermoud, Complices.
Matthew Trusler holds a teaching post at the Malmö Academy in Sweden and lives in Paris with his wife and young daughter. He plays a 1711 Stradavarius
Alexander Chaushian was born in Erevan, Armenia in 1977 and started to play the cello at the age of seven. He first studied with his grandfather Alexander Chaushian Sr, and then with Zare Sarkisian. From 1992 to 1995 he studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Melissa Phelps and from 1995-1999 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a student of Oleg Kogan. From 1999 – 2001, as part of the Kempf Trio, he held a fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2003, he began pursuing advanced studies with the late Boris Pergamenschikow at the Hochschule in Berlin, and afterwards with David Ger
