Final concert in Derravaragh Series at Tullynally

The Derravaragh Music Association (DMA) will be welcoming the Aronowitz Trio to perform at the fourth and final concert of the DMA 2018-9 season at Tullynally Castle, Castlepollard, on Saturday 30th March next. The programme includes Haydn - Trio in E major, Mendelssohn - Trio No. 2,a nd Schubert - Trio No. 2.
All members of the Aronowitz Trio have a long history of distinguished chamber music partnerships and bring a wealth of mutual experience to bring to their concerts.  As individuals and as members of ensembles, they have performed all over the world, in major concert series and international venues and at many festivals.  Recent highlights have included two concerts at the 2018 Lammermuir Festival, with reviews describing the trio as "exquisitely refined" and  "full of heroic energy", and their playing as "a thing of wonder". This season also have concerts in Prague and the Netherlands. 
Tom Poster, well known to DMA audiences, has performed over forty concertos ranging from Bach to Ligeti with the Aurora Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, China National Symphony, HalleÌ, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and St Petersburg State Capella Philharmonic, collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Nicholas Collon, Thierry Fischer, Robin Ticciati and Yan Pascal Tortelier.
Magnus Johnston was a founding member of the Johnston (now Elias) Quartet, with which he played for five years, leading the quartet to win second prize in the London String Quartet Competition and a special prize for its performance of Dutilleux’s Ainsi La Nuit. Currently first violin of the Navarra Quartet and violinist to the Aronowitz Ensemble and the Aronowitz Trio, of all of which he is a founder member, he travels, performs and records extensively, in many major European venues and further abroad. violin 
Pierre Doumenge taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School from 2003-2009 and is a cello professor at GSMD. He gives annual masterclasses at the International Cello Courses UK, Oxford Cello School, Violoncello Society of London, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, West Helsinki Music Institute, Conservatoire Royal de Mons and the Szymon Goldberg Seminars in Toyama, Japan. He works regularly as guest principal cellist of the Bergen Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Ensemble Orchestra Kanazawa, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Bournemouth Symphony and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Written in 1797, Joseph Haydn’s Trio in E major is the second of a set of three trios dedicated to Mrs. Therese Jansen-Bartolozzi, and is noted for its especially wide expressive range as well as its virtuosity. Composed 50 years later, Felix Mendelssohn’s Trio No 2  is the second work of the evening. A notable feature of the finale of this work is its use of the melody of a chorale taken from the sixteenth-century Genevan psalter, "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir", as the culminating melody. The tune is known in English as Old Hundredth from its association with the Psalm 100 and is commonly sung to the lyrics "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." The final work of the evening will be Fraz Schubert’s Trio No. 2 in E-flat major.  It was one of the last compositions completed by Franz Schubert, dated November 1827 and first performed at a private party in January 1828 to celebrate the engagement of Schubert's school-friend Josef von Spaun. The Trio was among the few of his late compositions Schubert heard performed before his death.

Tickets: €22.50 
Date: 30th March 2019
Time: 20.00 (doors open 19.15)
For Direct Ticket bookings: www.derravaraghmusic.ie or Telephone: 087 683 9061
Tickets are also available from: Tom Birmingham’s, Mullingar; Murray’s, Castlepollard.