The Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan, violin, Robin Michael, cello and Mary Dullea, piano) perform extremely diverse repertoire internationally.  Broadcasts include regular appearances on BBC Radio 3 as well as RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC and Radio New Zealand. Since their South Bank debut they have appeared at Reggello Festival and Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi (Italy), West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens, Royal Opera House, London, Corsham Festival, Petworth Festival, Brighton Festival, Fuse Leeds, Casa da Musica (Porto) and Composer’s Choice Series, National Concert Hall, Dublin.

CD releases include Bulb on NMC featuring trios by Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy, Deirdre Gribbin and Ed Bennett, Metamorphoses, the chamber music of Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson, on Delphian Records, and Bartlebooth, the music of Joe Cutler, on NMC. Forthcoming releases include The Piano Tuner for Delphian Records (premiere recordings of Scottish trios by Judith Weir, Nigel Osborne and Sally Beamish, with narrator Alexander McCall Smith), From Vienna (Schoenberg, Korngold and Zemlinsky) for Naxos, the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records, a Piers Hellawell portrait disc and they will feature on a chamber music CD of Rolf Hind’s music for Neos Musik.

Passionate believers in the enormous range of possibilities the piano trio holds for composers, they are constantly seeking out and commisioning new works and the diverse range of leading composers that The Fidelio Trio are associated with includes Toshio Hosokawa, Howard Skempton, Charles Wuorinen, Gerald Barry, Johannes Maria Staud, and their extensive repertoire of premieres includes music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Edison Denisov, Beat Furrer and Toru Takemitsu. They are Music Network artists and are supported by PRS for Music Foundation, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.

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