We are beyond grateful to @the_strad_ for their continuous support for our career as they feature us stepping into this new season with @domselaerartists ❤️ We feel deeply aligned with the extraordinary team at Domselaer and are proud to start on this new adventure together!💌 Link to the news in our bio!
📽️ The dramatic opening of @samperkincomposer ‘s Freakshow from our Wigmore Hall debut in November 🎹
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Sam Perkin: “The Armless Fiddler” from Freakshow for Piano Trio (2016)
Carl Unthan, born without arms, became a virtuoso violinist by playing with his feet and earning international acclaim. 🎻 He toured the globe, even performed for Strauss in Vienna, and became recognized as a serious musician, not just an oddity. During the First World War, he used his talents to inspire amputees, showing them that life and music could still be fulfilling after injury. He passed away at age 80, a wealthy and fulfilled man.
Sam Perkin’s “Freakshow” is a set of miniatures, each dedicated to a person or persons who exhibited biological rarities. Sam celebrates their remarkable abilities and personalities through amazing characterizations in this piece, while at the same time, remembering the darker elements of human curiosity.
Since we discovered this piece, we have been fascinated by the incredible narrative that Sam masterly weaves throughout this piano trio, written in 2016. It has been a wonderful journey working with Sam on this piece and bringing this gem of a piano trio to audiences worldwide. ❤️
We will be playing this on @bbc Radio 3: In Tune with Katie Derham tomorrow at 5pm.
And it will be featured in our @wigmore_hall programme on Thursday at 1pm! Don’t miss it! 🎶
📣 Some big news that is overdue: we’re going to be the new piano trio in residence at @necmusic from September onwards!🎉 A massive thank you to @the_strad_ for sharing our news and celebrating with us, you can read all about this in the link in our bio. And to all local friends and colleagues: not to worry - we will still be based in the UK/Europe, this residency will just have us traveling more than our usual!🌎🛫🧳🛬
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We are still shocked by the terrible news of the sudden passing of our dear mentor Günter Pichler and his beloved dog in a tragic accident last Friday. We are heartbroken having just seen him dance around his studio in Madrid while working on Schubert E-flat with us earlier this month. His influence is unparalleled and our relationship with him grew very close over the past three years - we just didn’t know that this trip to Madrid would be our last with him. The time we had with him was precious, him telling us stories of his legendary career, and demanding nothing short of the highest quality possible of chamber music playing. He will be oh so greatly missed and certainly never forgotten, and he surely lives on through all of us that were blessed, charmed, sometimes terrified, but always so completely supported by him. Our thoughts are with his wife Elfi and his children, and we thank you for everything our dear Professor. We won’t forget your Advice.
Günter seemed invincible to us, still running the stairs all the way up to the fifth floor and being so young in spirit. He’d tell us that working together he felt the same age as us: “the audience is old but we are young”. Rest in peace Professor 💔❤️
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Piano Trio No. 1 “Freakshow”
Composed by Sam Perkin
The Paddington Trio - Wigmore Hall
Growing up, I dreamt of being performed one day at Wigmore Hall. It is the most beautiful concert hall and a true honour to have had my Piano Trio “Freakshow” performed there by such inspiring musicians. The way The Paddington Trio have fully embodied this piece is a thing of beauty. Special thanks to Culture Ireland for making it possible to go to this concert.
Piano Trio No. 1 “Freakshow” is an emotionally wide-ranging exploration of the stars of “The Sideshow”. At times macabre and at times joyful, it is an intriguing suite of curiosities.
Commissioned by Gregynog Festival Wales for Fidelio Trio.
Full Video on YouTube.
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@the_strad_ surprised us with a review of our latest concert in @wigmore_hall - and it’s all so moving to read about our “colourful energy” and “splendidly spirited” Schubert in the very kind words of Tim Homfray. Go and read his wonderful review now linked to our bio and thank you again @the_strad_ for supporting us, we are completely honoured.
If you would like to hear our Schubert live, we will be next performing it at @chipping_campden_music_fest later today, @hauhofestival on Tuesday next week, and @kuhmofestival this summer. This short clip is appropriately from Wigmore but from our debut concert in November, which we started with the most fun Haydn Trio in C Major.
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📣 This summer in Kuhmo!! Join us for 12 concerts, individual + chamber courses & total festival magic!🦟👀🪄 (Enrollment to study with us open for 2 more days!❤️)
We are wishing everyone joyful and peaceful holidays with a small musical postcard from Wigmore Hall last month, where we played our favorite Haydn Trio in C Major!💌🎄 We are so happy to programme this festive Haydn in our last concert of the year at @kamermuziekfestivalutrecht on the 29th of December - there’s a link to the event in our bio!💥
📽️🎁 The rest of the Haydn, as well as some other exciting stuff is now up on our new YouTube channel (link in bio) - head there if you’re any curious to hear what we’ve been up to these last moments of 2024!🫶🏼
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Haydn’s exhilarating Finale from his C Major trio! One of his “London” trios, we have loved performing this piece since our early days and we feel so lucky to finally play it next week in Wigmore Hall.
This particular performance is from beautiful Schloss Grafenegg, and stunningly filmed by @ecma_music and @mdwwien in May. 🪄
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We are giving our very last performance at this years’s Kuhmo Festival at 3pm today - it feels unreal how quickly time has yet again passed, and how truly incredible it has been!🙌🏻 Today’s piece is Freakshow by @samperkincomposer and we couldn’t be more excited to introduce it to audiences here for the first time.❤️
For anyone else curious, it’s now possible to listen to our recent performance of Päärme by Lotta Wennäkoski on Yle Areena. The concert is edited by Ahti Paunu and it’s part of last week’s “From the mountains and lakes” concert🏞️ Photo is from our dress rehearsal, taken by @juusowesterlund 📸
We just arrived in Kuhmo last night and tonight at 6pm we already play the magical Päärme by Lotta Wennäkoski in the @kuhmotalo - such an amazing acoustic!💥 The concert tonight is broadcast by @yle , and we can’t wait for all our upcoming performances here at @kuhmofestival !❤️ Stay tuned!🎶
Thrilled to share that we won 1st prize in the 2024 Triomphe de l’Art International Competition in the Chamber Music category last week! We also received special prizes from @schottmusic , @universaledition & @peermusicgermany . We had a fantastic time in Brussels and we felt so grateful to be hosted by the incredible Jean-Claude and Gaëtane. ❤️ And a huge thank you to @triomphedelart and @jkocharova for the amazing organization! 🎊 Hope to be back in Belgium soon 🇧🇪
