A lunchtime concert on Thursday 8^th March will bring Tunnell Trust Award winners, the Greenwich Piano Trio to play trios by Mozart and Mendelssohn for the At One With Music audience.

The Tunnell Trust was formed originally in 1988 by family members, colleagues and friends of the late John Tunnell, OBE, the founder leader of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, in order to support exceptional young musicians, and chamber groups in particular, by helping them to bridge the difficult gap between the student and professional worlds where recognition and experience can only be gained from quality performing experiences.  The Trust will be celebrating having supported five hundred such performances by award winning ensembles with a concert in Linlithgow Academy on 12^th May (www.tunnelltrust.org.uk).

The Greenwich Piano Trio is one of the four ensembles that received an award from the Trust in 2011 enabling them to tour selected Scottish music clubs during the 2011-2012 Season.  The Trio’s tour reaches Inverness on Thursday 8^th March where they will perform for At One With Music.

Slovenian violinist Lana Trotovšek has performed throughout Europe as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras in major halls such as the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as London’s Kings Place and St. John’s Smith Square.  She is heard frequently on Radio and Television Slovenija, and her performance of the Khachaturian Violin Concerto was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3. She has recorded for Signum Classics, Champs Hill and Meridian Records.  Before moving to London to continue her studies at both Trinity College of Music and the Royal College of Music, Lana was a student of Ruggiero Ricci at the Salzburg Mozarteum.  In 2011 she was appointed first violinist of the Badke Quartet.

Born in Kyoto to a musical family, Yoko Misumi started piano lessons at a very early age.  At only 14 she was a prize-winner in the Kyoto Piano Competition. After graduating from Kyoto Music High School, she moved to London to continue her studies with Nina Sereda( former student of Neuhaus ) and Martino Tirimo ( soloist ).   Yoko has appeared as a soloist with conductors such as James Judd and Barry Wordsworth. She has given performances in Kyoto Concert Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and in London at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall, Kings Place and Adrian Boult Hall.

Recently appointed Principal Cellist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Aleksei Kiseliov was born in Belarus in 1985 and began his music studies with Vladimir Perlin in 1990 at the Republican Music College. In 1997, Aleksei was a prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky International Youth Competition in St. Petersburg, and became “Belarus Pupil of the Year”, at the age of only twelve. After a period of study in Hannover with Tilmann Wick, he was granted a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London.  A successful debut at St. John’s Smith Square was followed by a recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with further concerts in the UK and important appearances at several international music festivals including the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Kronberg Masterclasses and the Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival.

The Greenwich Piano Trio will be playing the Mozart Piano Trio No 5 in G major, K564 and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No 2 in C minor, Op 66/2.  Tickets will be available at the door on the day from 12.30pm and will cost £5 for adults, £4 for concessions and £1 for children.  The concert will start at 1.00pm and last for about fifty minutes.

Source: James Munro