…intense expressivity
…pounding vigour
The Daily Telegraph
 

The Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan, violin, Robin Michael, cello and Mary Dullea, piano) perform extremely diverse repertoire throughout Europe, Asia and South Africa and frequently broadcast for BBC Radio 3. Since their South Bank debut they have appeared at FuseLeeds, Reggello Festival (Italy), West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens, Royal Opera House, London, Corsham Festival, Musica Viva (Portugal) and Composer’s Choice Series, National Concert Hall, Dublin. They have just released Bulb on NMC D147 featuring trios by Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy, Deirdre Gribbin and Ed Bennett and Metamorphoses on Delphian Records DCD34059, the chamber music of Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson. Further releases this year include Joe Cutler chamber music for NMC.

The Fidelio Trio have worked closely with many leading composers including Michael Nyman, Toshio Hosokawa and Howard Skempton and have premiered music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Edison Denisov, Beat Furrer and Toru Takemitsu.

They are Music Network artists and the recipients of awards from PRS Foundation and the Arts Council of Ireland.

Active in the field of education, they have worked with composition and string/piano students at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Birmingham Conservatoire.

Darragh Morgan – Soloist with Ulster Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, South Africa, Cyprus Chamber Orchestra. Performed with Ensemble Modern, Musik Fabrik, Remix Ensemble and member of Smith Quartet.

Robin Michael
– Performed with BCMG, Lontano and Almeida Ensemble. His diverse performing commitments include collaborations with Ronald Brautigam and Dave Holland. He has recently recorded Ginastera’s complete chamber music for Lorelt Records and plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello ca. 1791.

Mary Dullea – Festival appearances at Brighton, Huddersfield, Aldeburgh and National Arts Festival (South Africa). Currently on teaching staff of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Doctoral student at University of Ulster specializing in inside the piano funded by a prestigious DEL scholarship.