The Dale Trio Arts Centre performance will start at 7.30pm, while the Shinier Trio will be at the Wyvern Theatre on Wednesday, 29 September from 1.05–2pm
Tickets for the Arts Centre concert cost £16 for adults and £13 for seniors and unwaged people. There is also a theatre administration fee of £1.50. Student tickets are £3, with accompanied children aged 14 and under admitted free.
Tickets for the Wyvern Theatre date are £7 (plus theatre administration fee of 50p), with accompanied children aged 14 and admitted free.
Swindon Recital Series was founded 27 years ago by Paul Turner. The mission of the series is providing world-class chamber music in the Swindon area by presenting regular concerts by professional musicians. The series takes place between September and April at various venues in and around Swindon.
This year, the musicians will perform trios by Bridge, Shostakovich and Beethoven. Frank Bridge’s Phantasie Piano Trio in C minor won the 1907 Cobbett Competition, being described as of ‘remarkable beauty and brilliance’. The prize was £50.
Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.2 in E minor Op.67 was composed in 1944 and is said to reflect both the tragic circumstances of the period in which it was written and the loss of his closest friend at the early age of 41.
Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op.70 No.1 ‘Ghost’ was said to be titled as so because a friend of Beethoven’s said the slow movement reminded him of the appearance of Banquo’s ghost in Macbeth.
The first lunchtime recital at the Wyvern Theatre introduces the Shiner Trio to SRS audiences – Joseph Shiner clarinet, Yoanna Prodanova cello and Paul Turner piano – performing trios by Beethoven and Brahms.
The SRS team said: “Beethoven’s Piano Trio ‘Gassenhauer’ Op.11 got its name from the melody in the last movement. This was a well-known tune from an opera called The Corsair that was very popular with Viennese vagabonds, earning the composition its nickname that translates as ‘Street Song.’
“Brahms’ Clarinet Trio Op.114 was first performed in Berlin in December 1891 with Brahms himself at the piano. The piece has an ‘autumnal’ mood, both mellow and deep, dark and golden.”
The musicians coming to Swindon have distinguished CVs.
Miranda Dale gained a scholarship at sixteen to study with Howard Davis at the Royal Academy of Music in London before furthering her studies in Canada and the USA. She is Principal Second Violin with the Britten Sinfonia and is in demand as a Guest Principal with the Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera and English Chamber Orchestra. She also tours with chamber players in the US.
Caroline Dale also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. At 13 years old she was the string winner in one of the first BBC Young Musician of the Year competitions and at 15, was the youngest ever recipient of the Isserlis Scholarship.
Caroline was a member of the Nigel Kennedy Quartet and the Balanescu Quartet, as well as founder member of the American–based Apollo Piano Trio. Prior to her appointment as Principal Cellist of the English Chamber Orchestra she was principal of the BT Scottish Ensemble and the London Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Joseph Shiner regularly appears at venues and festivals around the UK and internationally with recent engagements at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre and the St Magnus International Festival. His awards include the Hattori Foundation Senior Award, the Philip and Dorothy Green Award and the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Prince’s Prize.
A selected artist for Making Music and the City Music Foundation, he was also featured as a ‘Rising Star’ for BBC Music Magazine. He was also a Category Finalist in the 2008 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition.
Yoanna Prodanova completed her studies in 2019 at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she was a Bicentenary Scholar on the prestigious Advanced Diploma course, already having obtained her Bachelor and Master’s degrees at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Awards include The Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Artists (2016), the Sylva Gelber Award (2017, 2018), Tunnell Trust Award (2019) and the First prize at the International Joachim Competition in Weimar with her string quartet, the Barbican Quartet. She says she is extremely grateful to the Canimex Group for the loan of a beautiful cello made by Giuseppe Gagliano in 1788.
Paul Turner is an Honours graduate and an elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music where his many prizes and awards culminated in the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence and the Peter Pears Accompaniment Prize. He has appeared at London’s leading venues and major UK festivals. He has given concerts in Europe and South America and worked with eminent singers and instrumentalists.
More information about the recital series can be found at www.swindonrecitalseries.org
Joseph Shiner
Yoanna Prodanova
The Dale Trio