Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt (arr. Roseanna Dunn)
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Trio for flute, cello & piano
Amy Beach Pastorale & Caprice, 'The Water Sprites', op 90

Showcase of new works by the Leeds School of Music composers!

The Marsyas Trio’s first visit to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland sees them workshopping sketches and new works by the composition students of Oliver Searle’s class.

PROGRAMME
Franz Joseph Haydn Trio No. 28 in D major, Hob.XV:16 
Mélanie Hélène Bonis Scènes de la forêt, Op. 123
Carl Czerny Fantasia concertante, Op. 256

More information HERE

Whitney George Solitude & Secrecy (2021)
Chen Yi Night Thoughts (2004)
Marilyn Bliss Chameleon (1981)
Elisenda Fábregas Noche en la Alhambra (2003)
Missy Mazzoli Magic With Everyday Objects (2007)

The Marsyas Trio, current Artist By-Fellows at Churchill College, present a programme showcasing a vibrant range of works by members of the New York Women Composers, a wonderful organisation dedicated to supporting the creation, promotion and performance of music by women. In recognition of their shared artistic vision, the Trio were awarded a 'Seed Money Grant' by NYWC in 2021. They are now delighted to bring this exciting repertoire to Cambridge for the first time.

Programme

Franz Joseph Haydn Trio No. 30 in F major, Hob.XV:17
Bohuslav Martinu Trio for Flute, Cello & Piano
Claude Debussy Sonate pour violoncelle et piano
Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt, Op. 123
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Trio in D minor, Op. 11

https://www.berkhamstedmusic.co.uk/event/marsyas-trio-6-12-25/

8 Hart St, London EC3R 7NB, UK

Free admission

Programme:

Joseph Haydn Trio in F major
1. Allegro
2. Finale - Tempo di Menuetto

Claude Debussy -  Pagodes (solo piano)

Mel Bonis - From 'Scènes de la Forêt'
1. Nocturne
2. A l'aube 

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - From Trio in D minor

2. Andante espressivo 

Bohuslav Martinu - From Trio for flute, cello and piano 
2. Adagio
3. Andante - Allegretto scherzando

Programme

Coming soon!

https://sites.google.com/view/granthammusicclub/concerts/nov-25?authuser=0

Programme to be announced soon!

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds

Trailblazing composer and first ever female Master of the Queen’s/King's Music, Dame Judith Weir, discusses her seminal work Several Concertos. With live musical extracts performed by The Marsyas Trio, Judith will delve into its archaeology, circumstances of its composition and the music scene in 1980, reflecting on how our New Music culture has changed within the last 45 years.

Admission free

Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTCGYnUF4g

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

Michael Spencer - Las Meninas (Love letter No. 7) - in memoriam Ernie Spencer (2025) - World Premiere

Joseph Haydn - Piano Trio no 28 in D major, Hob.XV:16

Judith Weir - Several Concertos for Flute, Cello and Piano (1980)

Admission: Free / Pay as you feel

Info and tickets: https://concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/marsyas-trio-4/

Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTCGYnUF4g

Franz Joseph Haydn Trio in D major, Hob XV:16
Michael Finnissy June
Judith Weir Several Concertos
Louise Farrenc Trio in E minor, Op 45
Carl Czerny Fantasia concertante, Op 256

Programme and tickets HERE

North Of England Centre For Music And Arts, Marsden

Join the Marsyas Trio for a live, interactive concert celebrating steam-age inventors with music, storytelling, and hands-on music-making.

Free. Booking required via this link

North Of England Centre for Music and Arts, Marsden

A hands-on science workshop using recycled instruments, voice, and body percussion to create short pieces, ending with a performance for adults alongside the Marsyas Trio.

Age: 8-12 year olds

Free. Booking required via this link

With mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean

Programme
Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt
Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible
Maurice Ravel La flûte enchantée (Shéhérazade)
Maurice Ravel Chansons madécasses
Michael Finnissy Blessed be song cycle (WP)
Anne Boyd Cycle of Love
Claude Debussy Chansons de Bilitis

Ancient and exotic texts through centuries of human existence are explored in this programme of chamber music for voice, flute, cello and piano. Works are inspired by a rich array of literary sources, from Greek mythology to the Arabian Nights.

MORE INFORMATION

*please note, concert start time & venue may be subject to change

Musical Waterways – Amazing Inventioneers
Length: 60min
Suggested Ages: 7-12 years

Programme to include…
Eugene Goossens The Waterwheel, from Five Impressions of a Holiday, Op. 7
George Crumb Sea Nocturne, from Vox Balaenae
Laura Bowler Steam Turbines, from Salutem’
Eugene Goossens By the Rivers, from Five Impressions of a Holiday, Op. 7
Mel Bonis L’aube (Dawn), from Scènes de la forêt

Join us for a tale of invention and scientific discovery in an age of ships, bridges and water power. Come along and discover the brilliant engineers John Smeaton, Sarah Guppy and Mr & Mrs Parsons on their pioneering mission to design England’s bridges, canals and steam turbines. This 1-hour performance links engineering and music, including an introduction to how musical instruments make their sound. The event will end with participants performing alongside the Marsyas Trio.

Venue TBC
*Please note, concert start time is subject to change

Tickets here

Programme

Haydn Symphony No. 104 (arr. Clementi)
Debussy Cello Sonata
Debussy ‘Colombine’, ‘Pierrot ‘and ‘Clair de lune’ (from Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse)
Marika Hackman Claude’s Girl
Arnold Schoenberg  Pierrot Lunaire

With guests mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, pianist Chad Vindin, violinist Patrick Dawkins & clarinettist Raymond Brien

19:00 – pre-concert talk
20:00 – concert
* nb. timings have been moved forwards from those previously published

Free entry, booking required

Programme
Maurice Ravel  La flûte enchantée (Shéhérazade)  
Claude Debussy Chansons de Bilitis
Judith Weir Nuits d'Afrique
Ewan Campbell Traduit de la nuit (WP)
Maurice Ravel Chansons madécasses

Link: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/translations-night-concert-and-pre-concert-talk%0A

Join the Marsyas Trio, Churchill’s current Artist By-Fellows, and award-winning mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean for a concert that will feature Chansons madécasses - Ravel’s most controversial and experimental work, and the premiere of Ewan Campbell’s Traduit de la nuit, setting poetry by the Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

The event includes a pre-concert talk led by Prof. Charles Forsdick, professor of French and Francophone literature with a specialism in colonial and post-colonial literature, who will help us navigate the complexities of engaging with historic and contemporary music and poetry from Africa and Madagascar. 

Tickets and info: https://www.alnwickmusicsociety.co.uk

Programme
Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt
Elena Firsova Meditation in the Japanese Garden
Hilary Tann In the Theater of Air
Chen Yi Night Thoughts
Louise Farrenc  Trio in E minor, Op. 45

With mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 3AR, UK

Programme:

Ravel La flute enchantée (Shéhérazade)

Judith Weir Nuits d'Afrique

Ravel Chansons madécasses

Interval

Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible

Ewan Campbell Translations of the Night

Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt (selection)

Michael Finnissy Wisdom

University of Glasgow Concert Hall, University Of Glasgow, University Ave, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

WORLD PREMIERE of Michael Finnissy's Wisdom commissioned by the Marsyas Trio

Tickets and info: https://www.haymusic.org/events/2025/1/12/the-marsyas-trio-7mybd

The programme includes the world premiere of a major work by British composer Michael Finnissy and a work by Dame Judith Weir who was Master of the Queen’s/King’s Music from 2014 to 2024.

Both composers will be present at the concert and they will join the players for a pre-concert conversation.

Echoes of a Distant Land

The programme is inspired by a rich array of literary sources that underpin each piece. Finnissy's Wisdom draws on a multitude of texts which take the listener around the globe, ranging from Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime myths to Shakespeare’s poetry and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. Weir's Nuits d’Afrique, commissioned by Wigmore Hall as a companion piece to the Ravel's Chansons madécasses, represents three female writers from Senegal, Ivory Coast and Congo-Brazzaville, with poems depicting local life. Mel Bonis’ Scenes de la foret includes references to Greek mythology, alongside the beautiful shorter vocal pieces by Ravel and Saint-Saëns.

Judith Weir Nuits d'Afrique

Michael Finnissy Wisdom

Interval

Mel Bonis Scenes de la foret

Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible

Ravel La flute enchantée (Shéhérazade)

Ravel Chansons madécasses

Info and tickets: https://www.operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/marsyas-trio/

In association with University of Leeds and Smeaton300.

There will also be a relaxed perfromance at 16:00.

Live visuals and a trio of amplified flute, cello and piano tell the fascinating story of pioneering women engineers who followed in the footsteps of Leeds’ own John Smeaton.

The Marsyas Trio – Ensemble-in-Residence (University of Leeds) and one of the UK’s foremost mixed chamber ensembles – presents an immersive journey celebrating the 300-year anniversary of the ‘father of civil engineering’.

Instrumental in the construction of the UK’s canal network, Smeaton paved the way for Britain’s first women engineers including Sarah Guppy and Katharine Parsons, whose inventions also centred on water.

The trio, in collaboration with film artist and visual projectionist Julian Hand, connect these brilliant minds and their inventions through a narrative of ‘musical waterways’. This compelling performance will include music across three centuries by Franz Joseph Haydn, Louise Farrenc, Eugene Goossens, Catherine Lamb, George Crumb, and two specially commissioned works by Leeds composers James Creed and Alannah Halay.

The Marsyas Trio continue their Artist By-Fellowship at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

In this concert they will perform Mozart’s Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor K. 466, brilliantly arranged by J.N. Hummel for keyboard, flute, violin & cello.

With guest violinist Christopher Jones

Free entry

Tickets and info: https://cockermouth-music-society.org.uk/events/marsyas-trio/

PROGRAMME

Franz Joseph Haydn Trio No. 30 in F major, Hob.XV:17
Bohuslav Martinu Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano
Claude Debussy Sonate pour violoncelle et piano
Mélanie Hélène Bonis Scènes de la forêt, Op. 123
Carl Maria von Weber Trio in G minor, Op. 63

Marsyas Trio’s 3rd Visit as the FUAM Ensemble-in-Residence at the School of Music, University of Leeds

1.05pm - Lunchtime concert of works by Wilms and Weber

6pm - Showcase of the compositions by the student composers written for the Marsyas Trio. 

In partnership with Leeds Light Night  https://www.lightnightleeds.co.uk visual artist Paul Miller https://www.whoispaulmiller.co.uk

Helen Vidovich (flute) and Olga Stezhko (piano)

https://aylesburylunchtimemusic.co.uk

St. Mary’s Church, Aylesbury

Programme:

CPE Bach -  Sonata in G major for flute and piano ('Hamburger')

Georges Hüe - Fantaisie for flute and piano 

Albert Roussel - Pan (from Joueurs de Flûte Op.27)

Claude Debussy - Estampes for solo piano

Lili Boulanger - Nocturne for flute and piano

JS Bach - Adagio from Toccata in E minor BWV 914 for solo piano

Francis Poulenc - Sonata for flute and piano 

Churchill College, Alumni weekend

Susan Lim - Fantasy Chamber Suite (with Mark Bebbington)

Ewan Campbell - Written in Air – hopefully with two new movements

Fanny Hensel - Overture in C (arr. for flute, cello and piano by Mark Gotham)

Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS, UK

INFO: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/events/noticeboard/item/lunchtimeconcert-marsyastrio-26september2024.html

King’s Hall, Armstrong Building

Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8QB

Mel Bonis - Scenes de la foret (arr. by Roseanna Dunn)

Johan Wilhelm Wilms - Trio Op. 6

Free admission

Leeds, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH, UK

A series of relaxed short performances of works by Wilms, Mel Bonis, Amy Beach and Czerny at 2-4pm