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fiorini
are an all-Australian piano trio based in London. Having made
their way individually to Europe in the eighties they gave
their first performance as a trio in 1996.
Since then they have made
regular appearances at the chamber music series of St James's
Piccadilly, St Anne and St Agnes in the City of London, the
Chapel Royal in Brighton and on several occasions they have
been invited to perform in the St Martin-in-the-Fields
recital series. Concerts for Classics
West have taken them all over the southwest of England
including performances at Wells Cathedral and Warwick University.
With vibrant young Northern Irish composer Deirdre Gribbin
they have given many acclaimed performances of her trio How
to make the water sound, including prestigious occasions
at both Newcastle and Cambridge Universities...
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...a
dynamic group of players whose attention to detail is revelatory...
Deirdre Gribbin
In 1999 fiorini were honoured
with an invitation to perform at the Australian High Commission
in London to celebrate the 70th birthday of renowned Australian
composer Peter Sculthorpe.
...where
would composers be without (these) wondrous performers?
Peter Sculthorpe
The year 2001 marked the trio's
debut tour of Australia. With performances at the Barossa
Music Festival, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Universities
of Melbourne and Canberra and a live broadcast for the ABC's
Classic Live series.
...the
year's most invigorating music club recital...
Fred Blanks, The
North Shore Times, Sydney 2001
Although passionate about repertoire
of the European composers from the 18th century to the modern
day, fiorini are also keen
to explore and perform Australian repertoire which is largely
unknown to European audiences. With this in mind they work
regularly with the London-based Australian composers,
John Carmichael, Rohan Stevenson and Andrew Schultz. They
premiered Stevenson's Movie Demons
in both the UK and Australia and gave the London premiere
of Schultz's Tonic Continent.
John Carmichael's piano quartet Sea
Changes they premiered, and consequently recorded,
in London. Currently they are recording Outback
and Beyond - a showcase of contemporary Australian
and British piano trios side by side, for the Riverrun
record label.
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Victor
Sangiorgio, piano
Italian
by birth, Victor is Australian by adoption, having spent
most of his formative years in Perth and in Melbourne.
After winning most Australian Music Prizes and having
performed as soloist with all major Australian orchestras,
including the Australian Youth Orchestra on their 1979
tour of China and Hong Kong, he left Australia on a
Stuyvesant scholarship to study abroad. After time spent
in Siena, Rome and the United States, he settled in
London where he now resides.
His London
debut was hailed by The Times as ...poetic
perfection... and similar critical
and public success have greeted both his public performances
and recordings.
Since being
resident in London, he has broadcast frequently for
the BBC World service, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Classic
FM. He has performed throughout England, Scotland, Ireland,
America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. In America
he has broadcast live in Chicago and Los Angeles for
the WFMT Radio network and has appeared on American
television. He has collaborated with such conductors
as Claudio Abbado, Sir Charles Groves, Andrew Litton,
Jane Glover, En Shou, Stanislaw Skrowacewzski, André
Previn, Jorge Mester and Carl Davis. Victor's recordings
have met with extensive critical acclaim and include
such diverse repertoire as Stravinsky's complete
solo piano music: concertos by Rachmaninov and Mendelssohn
with the Western Australian Symphony and Vladimir Verbitsky;
Liszt transcriptions with En Shou and the Queensland
Orchestra, and music by the Australian composer John
Carmichael.
As a frequent
visitor to Australia he broadcasts regularly for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation as well as giving
numerous recital and concerto performances with the
Australian orchestras.
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Belinda McFarlane, violin
Belinda studied the violin in
Adelaide graduating from the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide
University, with First Class Honours in 1986. In the
same year she was a State Finalist in the ABC Instrumental
and Vocal Competition performing as soloist with the
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
After moving to Sydney in 1987
she played with the Australian Chamber and Sydney Symphony
orchestras. The following year Belinda was a finalist
for the Robert Stolz Scolarship. She then became leader
of the Australian Youth Orchestra for their Grand Bicentennial
Tour of Europe under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach
who said of her playing ...a
fine violinist... passion and flair.
Deciding to pursue a career in
London, Belinda studied with the esteemed Emanuel Hurwitz
and went on to join the London Symphony in 1991. She
plays on a 1912 Italian instrument by Giuseppe Fiorini,
after whom the trio takes its name.
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Matthew Lee, cello
Matthew is from Sydney where
he lived until he was 18, studying at the Conservatorium
High School. In 1981 he came to the UK with the assistance
of a grant from the Australia Arts Council and from
1984 to 1988 he was an Exhibition student at the Royal
College of Music where he studied with Joan Dickson
and Amaryllis Fleming. Whilst at the College he won
several prizes for chamber music and solo playing, including
the Dorothy and Percy Coates Award for piano trio, and
the Stern Award for cello.
...superb
melodic line...
Svenska Dagbladet
After graduating Matthew freelanced
in London before taking the position of sub-principal
cello in the BBC Concert Orchestra in 1992. His cello
was made by Benjamin Banks of Salisbury in 1792.
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