CASTLE HARMONIES 2024 – 13th Concert Season/ 3rd Concert

TRIO CHAGALL

Edoardo Grieco, violin
Francesco Massimino, cello
Lorenzo Nguyen, piano

At the last of the three concerts of the Castle Harmonies, we will be able to listen to the Trio Chagall, which recently attracted the attention of the musical public as the winner of the second overall prize (the first prize was not awarded) at the 20th International Competition of Chamber Ensembles with Piano, the Trio di Trieste Award, where the ensemble also received the Daria de Rosa special award for the best performance of a Schumann composition, the Fernanda Selvaggio special award for the best trio in the competition and the Young award for the most promising young finalists. With an average age of 20 years, Trio Chagall is the youngest chamber group ever awarded in the history of the said competition. These are just the latest in a string of successes for the trio, founded in 2013 at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Turin. The ensemble’s name is a tribute to the famous painter Marc Chagall, who is still a profound source of inspiration for them both because of his musical ties and extraordinary expressive power in using colours. The musicians are currently studying under the direction of Antonio Valentia and Trio Debussy. At the same time, they are attending a university master’s degree in chamber music with Trio di Parma and Pierpaolo Maurizzi. The trio regularly performs in Italy, reaching other prestigious concert stages worldwide.

Programme:
J. Haydn: Piano trio in A major, Hob. XV:35
F. Filidei: “Corde vuote” for violin, cello and piano
M. Ravel: Piano trio in A minor

LORA MARKOVA, violin

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Lora Markova started studying violin at the age of 5 in the National School of Music “Lyubomir Pipkov” in Sofia, in the class of the most prominent Bulgarian pedagogue Blagorodna Taneva. Since 2012 she is a student of prof. Kolja Blacher at the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. She is a laureate of numerous First Prizes from national competitions such as “Young Virtuosos” 2013, “Dobrin Petkov”2013, “Nedyalka Simeonova”2014, and “Grand Prix” form “Music and Earth” 2018, “Hopes, Masters, Talents”2019, Nedyalka Simeonova” and others. Lora is also the holder of the Annual Prize of “Stoyan Kambarev” Arts Foundation for 2021. Her international achievements include various major prizes from internationally recognised competitions. She has been appearing as a soloist in many festivals and concerts at home and abroad. In Bulgaria Lora is a sought-after solo artist and performs at concerts with leading Bulgarian philharmonic orchestras in Pleven, Vidin, Vratsa, Shumen, Sliven, Sofia in collaboration with conductors Emil Tabakov, Grigor Palikarov, Yordan Kamdzhalov, Maxim Eshkenazy, Pavel Zlatarov, Tsanislav Petkov, Kalina Vasileva. She is also committed to chamber and ensemble music playing. She is often invited by some of the outstanding musicians of the new generations but also by prominent names in classical music to share the stage in different festivals and events in Germany, Finland, Switzerland and Bulgaria. Inspired by ensemble playing, Lora is a frequent guest in different music Festivals, she also played alongside Boris Garlitsky, Thomas Riebl, Alexander Zemtsov, Andrey Baranov, Stefan Tarara, Sergey Malov, Kyril Zlotnikov and the members of Stradivari Quartet.

Programme:

N. Paganini: Caprice n. 17

J. S. Bach: Dalla Partita n.3: Preludio, Loure, Gavotte en rondeau

H. W. Ernst: Last rose of Summer

D. Tabakova: Pirin