Del Mar Piano Trio

Biography

Violin — Francesca Barritt
Cello — Morwenna Del Mar
Piano — Susie Summers

Formed in 2005 at the Royal Academy of Music, the Del Mar Piano Trio quickly gained recognition, winning the RAM’s Harry Isaacs and John Ireland Prizes. After a break to facilitate individual further study in the UK and abroad, it re-formed in September 2009 with violinist Francesca Barritt. The Trio has performed in venues and festivals throughout London and the UK, including St James’s, Piccadilly, St Olave’s Church in the City of London, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Aylesbury Festival. Its repertoire is wide-ranging, spanning classical to contemporary, including works by Sally Beamish, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Debussy, Ireland, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.

The Trio members are all prize-winners from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and between them have studied with members of the Dussek Piano Trio, Pizarro Piano Trio, Chilingirian Quartet, Kuss Quartet, Fitzwilliam Quartet and Endellion Quartet. The Trio regularly receives coaching as part of ChamberStudio at King's Place - set up by Richard Ireland to offer coaching and support to up-and-coming chamber groups - and is grateful for the financial support they received from the ChamberStudio Scholarship Fund.

In addition to their work as the Trio, the members work together regularly in a number of other combinations - Susie and Morwenna have been successful duo partners since 2005, Susie and Francesca recently formed a duo, and Francesca and Morwenna regularly perform together as principals in the Orchestra of St Paul's and the Syred Sinfonia, including chamber concerts in the Purcell Room and Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Music series.

Highlights for the Trio in 2011 include performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra in St Alban's and London, the Stamford Chamber Orchestra in Lincolnshire, the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra in Bristol, and the Aylesbury Symphony Orchestra.

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Concerts: 2012-2013 SEASON

Saturday 22 December 2012 (7.30pm, Greenacre Walk, Southgate Walk, London)
Hosted by Emile Woolf
Haydn Piano Trio No.39 in G major, Hob. XV/25 'Gypsy'
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op.15
Dvorak Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65
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Saturday 16 March 2013 (venue tbc)
Sowerby Music Society
Haydn Piano Trio No.39 in G major, Hob. XV/25 'Gypsy'
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op.15
Dvorak Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65

Concerts: 2010-2011 SEASON

Saturday 16 April 2011 (St Albans Girls' School, Sandridgebury Lane, St Albans
Hertfordshire AL3 6DB)
Sunday 17 April 2011 (St Mary-at-Hill Church, Eastcheap, London EC3R 8EE)
Beethoven Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op.56

Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra
Conductor — Nicholas Collon
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Saturday 2 July 2011 (8pm, Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St Mary's Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2DL)
Beethoven Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op.56

Stamford Chamber Orchestra
Conductor — Ben Palmer
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Saturday 8 October 2011 (7.30pm, Bristol)
Beethoven Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op.56

Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra
Conductor — Ben Palmer
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Sunday 6 November 2011 (Aylesbury)
Beethoven Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op.56

Aylesbury Symphony Orchestra
Conductor — Jacques Cohen