The Amati Piano Trio
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Programme Biography (1986)
The Amati Trio came together in 1983 to play Viennese music to an Austrian Café in London. Their growing reputation led to further engagements in and out of London. Recently they appeared in Durham, Suffolk and Cheltenham.
The Trio have a particular affinity with the trios of the classical and early romantic period, those by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn feature prominently in their programmes. Nevertheless they have already developed a wider repertoire. The programme tonight covers a wide range including works by Haydn and Beethoven, Viennese music of Krisler and Johann Strauss and a piece by Elgar.
Stephen Hose, the senior member of the Trio, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, winning a number of the most coveted prizes there and holding a Vaughan Williams Trust Scholarship; since leaving the Academy he has specialised in the performance of chamber music, giving recitals at the Wigmore Hall and at St. Martin’s in the Fields in London, as well as at numerous venues elswhere in the United Kingdom and at summer festivals in France and Germany.
Mark Messenger, too, was awarded a scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music where he studied violin under David Martin; he has subsequently continued his studies with Sidney Griller, the doyen of English chamber music, and was coached by Maurice Gendron in France. He made a guest appearance with The Parlour Quartet at the Wigmore Hall during 1984, and his chamber music engagements have taken him to venues throughout the Home Counties, East Anglia, the Midlands and the South West.
Peter Adams' talent on the 'cello is such that he was invited to join the Orchestra of the London Festival Ballet straight from school; he left them after two and a half years to become principal ‘cello with the London City Ballet and then the British Ballet Theatre. He has since played (as co-principal) with the English Philharmonic Orchestra, although he now limits the amount of orchestral playing he undertakes in order to concentrate more upon his chamber music. He is continuing to study privately with Maurice Zimbler.