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

£10 (general admission), free for students

BOOK TICKETS: https://concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/summer-festival-2024-marsyas-trio/

Marsyas Trio with guest violinist Christopher Jones

KEYS TO REVOLUTION

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Trio in D Minor (arr. by Mark Gotham for flute, cello & piano)

Claude Debussy Pagodes (piano solo)

J.S. Bach Adagio from Toccata in E minor BWV 914 (piano solo)

Scriabin Vers la flamme (piano solo)

INTERVAL

Johann Nepomuk Hummel  Adagio, Variations and Rondo on Schöne Minka Theme Op.78 (flute, cello & piano)

W.A. Mozart Piano concerto No. 466 (arr. by Hummel for keyboard, flute, violin & cello)

About the programme:

In the short space of less than 100 years between 1770 and 1860, piano underwent an astonishing evolution. Utilizing the cutting-edge technologies and manufacturing methods that became available thanks to the Industrial Revolution, Cristofori’s original 4-octave “gravicembalo col piano e forte” (harpsichord with soft and loud) quickly developed into the magnificent concert grand we know today – the instrument without which the history of Western classical music would be a different affair.

In this concert, the Marsyas Trio (the FUAM Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Leeds) celebrates the versatility of piano as a solo and chamber instrument and showcases its limitless expressive palette. The programme also illuminates piano’s crucial role as composers’ trusted companion in creating and disseminating larger orchestral works.

By 1844 there were more than 9,000 arrangements of works in circulation including symphonies, concerti and operas. Known by Beethoven as ‘translations’, these orchestral works were often released simultaneously in several chamber ensemble versions, arranged by eminent composers of the day in consultation with the composers.

Hummel and Clementi, both virtuoso pianists themselves, arranged most of Beethoven’s symphonies and many of Haydn and Mozart’s symphonies and concerti, one of which – Mozart’s dramatic and sublimely beautiful Piano Concerto in D minor K.446 – takes centre stage in tonight’s programme.

The Marsyas Trio return to the Churchill College as part of their Artist By-Fellowship, to perform a programme of new compositions, including premieres of works by Churchill music students Kirsty McLachlan and Lucy Currid, and the winner of the 2022 Cambridge Young Composer competition Sohan Kalirai (Music, John’s).

Free entry

PROGRAMME

Kirsty McLachlan Entropy (Ping Pong)
Lucy Currid Echolocation
Sohan Kalirai Government Lake
Cecilia McDowall Not just a place

The Marsyas Trio’s 2nd visit to the University of Leeds as the current FUAM Ensemble in Residence.

Programme to include Ludwig van Beethoven, Amy Beach, Michael Finnissy, and George Crumb.

Tickets and info: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/university-of-leeds/clothworkers-centenary-concert-hall/marsyas-trio/e-vldorv

Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS, UK

Info: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/songs-air-and-sea

Free entry. Booking required. 

Churchill College, The Chapel, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS

6.30pm – Pre-concert talk & Exhibition: How can the arts interact with a Natural World in decline?

Chaired by environmentalist, author and curator John Fanshawe, this discussion between artists and environmental scientists will examine how the arts have drawn inspiration from the environment and how they can continue to interact in a changing world.

John Fanshawe – Birdlife International

Xavi Bou – Photographer

Ewan Campbell – Composer

Marsyas Trio

7:30pm – Marsyas Trio Concert

The London-based Marsyas Trio will present an immersive multimedia concert experience featuring different composers’ responses to the natural world. The dark and remote Chapel at Churchill is transformed through sound and light to emulate the underwater experience of George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae. The concert also features the premiere of Ewan Campbell’s collaboration with Spanish photographer Xavi Bou in a series of short movements written directly onto images of birds in flight.

Beethoven’s Vienna:

• Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832): Trio in G minor, Op. 119

• Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847): Trio for flute, cello & piano

• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847): Overture in C, arr. for flute, cello & piano (arr. Mark Gotham)

• Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826): Trio in G minor, Op. 63

More information & tickets

St Olave's, 8 Hart St, London EC3R 7NA, UK

The Marsyas Trio appears in another concert in Cambridge as part of their Artist By-Fellowship at Churchill College.

Roseanna Dunn 1964
Ewan Campbell New Work, excerpts
Claude Debussy Cello Sonata
Eugene Goossens Five Impressions of a Holiday

Free entry

Leeds Emerging Artist Festival: Sunday with the Marsyas Trio

A gala recital featuring School of Music students performing alongside the Marsyas Trio. The recently appointed FUAM Ensemble in Residence, The Marsyas Trio, make their debut performance at the University. The concert will be preceded by a pre-concert talk, in which the Marsyas Trio discuss their work, repertoire, and the history of music for the flute, cello and piano ensemble.

This event will be live-streamed HERE

2:45 PM Pre-concert talk

3:30 PM Concert

Programme:

Carl Czerny Fantasia Concertante for Flute, Cello and Piano Op.256
Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt (arranged by Roseanna Dunn)
Albert Roussel Rossignol mon mignon, from 2 Poèmes de Ronsard, Op.26, for flute & soprano
Claude Debussy En Bateau, from Petite Suite, for piano four hands
Ludwig van Beethoven Welsh songs, excerpts, for trio and soprano

MORE INFO & TICKETS

"Once upon a time, at the very beginning of time, there was a big BANG! Then, there were stars [Do stars make a sound?]. Around the stars spun planets. And one of the planets was called ‘Earth’. Don’t believe me? You’re sitting on it right now. And if you’re not sitting, then sit down immediately, because the story is about to begin.

This is the story of the Three Little Mammoths."

Three Little Mammoths is a interactive spoken-word play for children of primary-school age featuring live music by The Marsyas Trio and narration by Eoin McLaughlin, author of the original text, well-known for his best-selling children's book, 'The Hug'.

Exploring themes of kindness, generosity and tolerance, the story centres around the migration of the main characters to far-off lands, where everything is different from their home.

With a musical score by award-winning composer Robin Haigh, the play is also designed to be an exciting first experience of chamber music with music for flute/piccolo, 'cello and piano. The hour-long performance will include interactive introductions to these musical instruments and an audience sing-along!

With thanks to Arts Council England and the Fidelio Charitable Trust.

Please note, this is a performance for schools only, a public performance is being held at 6:30pm - if you would like to book for a school, please contact the North Tyneside Music Education Hub

Music BASCA award-winner Robin Haigh

Original text by children’s author Eoin McLaughlin

Performers Marsyas Trio and Eoin McLaughlin

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Overture in C, arr. for flute, cello & piano (arr. Mark Gotham)
Friedrich Kuhlau Trio in G minor, Op. 119
Carl Czerny Fantasia Concertante for Flute, Cello and Piano Op.256
Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt (arranged by Roseanna Dunn)

More info & tickets

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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Overture in C major (arranged by Mark Gotham)
Bohuslav Martinu Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano
Mel Bonis Scènes de la forêt (arranged by Roseanna Dunn)
Carl Czerny Fantasia Concertante for Flute, Cello and Piano Op.256

More info & tickets

The Marsyas Trio appears in another concert in Cambridge as part of their Artist By-Fellowship at Churchill College. They are joined by soprano Jessica Summers.

The Music Centre, Churchill College

University of Cambridge,

Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS, UK

Free entry

Programme:

Fanny Hensel (arr. Mark Gotham) - Overture in C

Claude Debussy - Songs of Bilitis

William Byrd / Mark Gotham - Steampunk Byrd

Johann Wilhelm Wilms - Trio for flute, cello & keyboard

Programme:

Haydn: Trio No 29 in G major, Hob.XV:15

Lili Boulanger: Nocturne for Flute and Piano

Martinů: Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, H.300

Debussy: Cello Sonata, L.135

Carl Maria von Weber: Trio in g minor, Op 63

Info and tickets: https://chamberconcert.co.uk/

Hoylake, 1 Stanley Rd, Hoylake, Wirral CH47 1HL, UK

Tickets are be available on: https://www.musicinlyddington.co.uk/

St Andrew’s Church Lyddington

Programme:

GOOSSENS: Five Impressions of a Holiday, Op. 7

BONIS: Scènes de la forêt

CZERNY: Fantasia concertante, Op. 256

Interval

CPE BACH: Sonata in G major H.563 ‘Hamburger’

MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11

The Music Centre, Churchill College

University of Cambridge, 

Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS, UK

Music by Gaubert, Saariaho and Czerny.