Vive les femmes

Lily Boulanger               D’un Matin de Printempts

Germaine Tailleferre     Trio

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Cecile Chaminade        Piano Trio

Frau und Musik

Barbara Heller            Lalai

Helene Liebmann           Trio

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Fanny Mendelssohn       Trio in D minor               

Women of Europe

Mel Bonis                    Soir & Matin

Henriette Bosmans           Trio

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Dora Pejacevic               Trio

Amy Beach                    Trio

Kate Loder                    Piano Trio

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Rebecca Clarke                Piano Trio

Schumann/Brahms  Triangle

Readings from diaries and letters between Clara, Robert and Johannes will take the audience through the lives of these three composers.

Clara Schumann     Piano Trio G minor

Robert Schumann     Fantasie Pieces

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Johannes Brahms     Piano Trio C minor

English Phantasie

John Ireland                    Phantasie in A minor

Frank Bridge                    Phantasy Trio

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Samuel Coleridge Taylor    5 Negro Melodie

Rebecca Clarke                    Piano Trios     

Russian Sentiment

Rachmaninov          Trio élegiaque in G minor

Kashperova          Piano Trio in A minor

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Shostakovich          Piano Trio no 2 in E minir

German Masterpieces

J. Haydn                    Piano Trios

L.v. Beethoven          Piano Trio

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J.Brahms               Piano Trio

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With Insights to the composers' lives by Anna Beer

Breaking the silence

Silent Scores - Talk and Concert

Is another generation growing up not finding out about the musical magic of of Dora Pejacevic, Lili Boulanger, Pauline Viardot, Marguerite Canal?

There are so many female composers who have written not only huge amounts chamber music but also mountains of symphonic works.

We all learn the same concertos for our orchestral auditions, just as we have for generations and yet there are superb concertos by Grażyna Bacewicz, Florence Price and Henriëtte Bosmans.

It was immensely difficult for women to get their works published during their lifetimes. But now there is a second struggle: we have to find these hidden treasures, these silent scores. How do we choose which works to study? Our teachers have grown up with a traditional repertoire of male composers only.

With my talk about women composers, I hope show how we can make their music part of the main curriculum and consequently part of the standard repertoire for concert halls, competitions and auditions.

Spirit of France

C.Saint-Saens               Piano Trio


Germaine Tailleferre     Trio

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Lily Boulanger     D’un Matin de Printempts

M. Ravel               Piano Trio A minor

Henriette Bosmans Pure

Violin Sonata

Cello Sonata

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Arietta for violin and piano

Piano Trio

Leokadiya Kashperova Pure

Cello Sonata in Eminor

In the Midst of Nature - Suite for piano solo

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Trio in A minor

Traditional and mixed programmes