AMATIS PIANO TRIOMengjie Han pianoLea Hausmann violinSamuel Shepherd cello

Supported by

The Gordon FoundationThe Tertis Foundation

36 Wigmore Street London W1U 2BP

Director: John Gilhooly

presents

Tuesday27 September 20167.30pm

“ The Amatis Piano Trio is an outstanding ensemble on the way to establishing a great international career.”

Daniel Hope (Beaux Arts Trio)

PROGRAMME: Schubert Piano Trio No 2 in E flat major, Op 100, D929

Shostakovich Piano Trio No 1 in C minor, Op 8

Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 67

The Parkhouse Award was founded in 1990 by friends and colleagues of the pianist David Parkhouse to

perpetuate his memory and continue his work in the guidance and encouragement of young chamber ensembles at the outset of their career.

He made an outstanding contribution to the performance of chamber music in Britain and abroad both as a teacher and as founder member of the Music Group of London with Eileen Croxford and Hugh Bean.

Previous winners of the biennial Parkhouse Award include the Grieg Trio, Katharine Gowers/Charles Owen, the Fauré Quartett, Nils Mönkemeyer/Nicholas Rimmer, the Notos Quartett and the Fournier Trio.

David Parkhouse 1930–1989

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The Amatis Piano Trio was founded in Amsterdam in 2013 by German violinist Lea Hausmann, British cellist Samuel Shepherd and Dutch/Chinese pianist Mengjie Han, winning the Parkhouse Award in 2015.

In April the Amatis Piano Trio won second prize and audience prize at the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition

in Weimar which was followed immediately by a tour of Hong Kong and Indonesia. The trio has performed extensively throughout Europe and has appeared at many festivals including Salzburg Chamber Music Festival, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, Beethoven Festival Bonn, Utrecht Chamber Music Festival and Festival Pablo Casals in France.

In 2015 the trio became the youngest finalists of the International Chamber Music Competition ‘Schubert und die Musik der Moderne’ in Graz and shortly after were named ‘Dutch Classical Talent 2015/16’. The trio has been part of the European Chamber Music Academy since 2015.

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A programme of beginnings and endings: Shostakovich’s first piano trio, youthfully impetuous and lyrical followed by his second bearing the pain of a friend’s untimely death and the siege of Leningrad, preceded by Schubert’s gigantic masterpiece written in the last year of his short life.