Enjoy The Menuhin Piano Trio at All Saints Fulham

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This month's Music by Bridge concert is on Friday 20 October

Music by the Bridge, a very popular series of free monthly evening concerts, is back at All Saints Church, by Putney Bridge this autumn.

The new autumn season offers talented young and often local musicians performing in the church from this month till November.

Concerts run from 7.15pm till 8pm with doors open from 6.45pm. Refreshments are available at the back of church and there is a retiring collection to support choral scholarships at All Saints.

This month's concert is on Friday 20 October and features the Menuhin Piano Trio -
Luis Rodriguez Lax on violin, Findlay Spence, pictured above on cello and Marta Puig on piano.

They will be playing a pair of trios - Beethoven Piano Trio in D Major Ghost and
Shostakovich Piano Trio No.1 in C Minor.

Beethoven's Ghost Trio - named for the eerily slow second movement, thought to have been a sketch for a never-completed operatic treatment of Macbeth - is paired with the romantic trio, sometimes known as Poeme, written by the young Shostakovich while studying at the Petrograd Conservatory. Findlay Spence, cello and friends. Cellist and Composer studying at the Royal College of Music in London. Musician in Residence at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.

The Menuhin Piano Trio was formed in early 2017 by young musicians from the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama with the intention of performing chamber music to the highest standard in Britain and abroad. The trio toured throughout Spain in Summer 2017 to wide acclaim and has a number of concerts across Britain lined up for the coming season.

Luis Rodriguez Lax is in his final year of a Masters in Performance at Royal College of Music, studying with with Radu Blidar in London. He has finished a Master in Music with Boris Kucharsky at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, being a scholarship holder during that time. He frequently performs in different halls all over Spain, combining this experience with his education in London.

Findlay Spence is a scholar at the Royal College of Music, studying cello with Melissa Phelps and composition with Simon Holt. Findlay performs with orchestras across Britain, often as soloist or principal: most notably as principal of NYOS Scotland at the BBC Proms in 2016. He has worked with world renowned conductors such as Bernard Haitink and Gustavo Dudamel and has toured throughout Europe and China.

Marta Puig was born in Barcelona in 1992 and studied piano with Maria Jesus Crespo and Pierre Reach at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, where she graduated with distinction. Recently, she completed the Guildhall Artist Masters course studying with Peter Bithell, being generously supportedy Charlotte Antoniette Trydell and Foundation Agustí Pedro i Pons for two years.

 

The next concert on Friday 17 November, will be The life of W. S. Gilbert, written and narrated by Michael Hampel, Precentor of St.Paul’s Cathedral with singers Rachel Shannon, Anna Boucher and Ian Ritchie and pianist Rachel Wheeler-Robinson.

 

Find out more at All Saints Fulham.

October 18,2017