Lyric Chamber Ensemble: Piano Quintets by Schubert and Franck

Name: Lyric Chamber Ensemble: Piano Quintets by Schubert and Franck
Start: 2025-09-07T14:30:00+01:00
Location: Ashburton Arts Centre

Schedule

Sun, 07 Sep, 2025 at 02:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Ashburton Arts Centre | Newton Abbot, EN

Top SW chamber musicians joined by pianist Sebastian Salvaterra from Germany
Schubert Piano Quintet in A major
Opus 114-D667 ‘Die Forellen’ (The Trout)
Cesar Franck Piano Quintet in F minor Opus 14
Piano, Sebastian Salvaterra
Violins, Trish Calnan and Catherine Hayek
Viola, George Robertson
Cello, Jeremy Capey
Double bass, Patrick Butterly
Sebastian Salvaterra
Sebastian Salvaterra was born in Paris in 1990. He started piano at the age of four. In 2009 he obtained his Piano Diploma with Unanimous Distinction and Gold medal at the Athenaeum “Maria Callas” Conservatory in Athens.
In 2010, he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree In Piano Performance with ‘Summa Cum Laude’ from the University of Indianapolis and was selected as Class Valedictorian. In 2013, he entered the Berlin University of The Arts in the class of Jacques Rouvier. In 2018 he finished his Masters degree in Piano Solo Performance with distinction at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, and in 2021 he completed his Postgraduate Piano studies. He was also a member of the prestigious Philippe Jaroussky Academy in the year 2020-2021, where he performed with orchestra at the Seine Musicale concert hall. He currently resides in Munich and actively plays in solo recitals, as well as with several chamber music formations.
Trish Calnan started to play the violin at the age of eleven and studied at the Royal Academy of Music with David Martin. She won many scholarships and prizes and continued her post graduate studies first in Freiburg, Germany with Wolfgang Marschner, and later with Helen Airoff-Dowling in Switzerland and London. Helen remains the formative influence on Patricia’s philosophy of teaching. In 1980 Patricia won the Mozart Memorial Prize and performed extensively both as leader of the Trio Zingara and as a soloist at the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Wigmore Hall, and Queen Elizabeth Hall, collaborating with such eminent conductors as Sir Charles Groves, Lord Menuhin, Ivan Fischer and James Loughran.
Patricia led the Lyric Quartet to great critical acclaim, following their debut recital in 1991, touring extensively with them in the UK and Europe. She toured worldwide with Sir Neville Marriner as a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Throughout her career she could be heard regularly on Radio 3 and her discography includes the Brahms Sonatas and works by Dohnányi, Ross Edwards, Herbert Howells, Glazunov, Ginastera and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Catherine Hayek studied the violin at The Royal Academy of Music. She is in great demand as a teacher and freelance performer with orchestral and chamber groups in the South West. She has appeared as a soloist with The English Mozart Players and The Ten Tors Orchestra.
George Robertson was born in Scotland and studied Viola at the Royal College of Music under a Caird Scholarship. Early in his career he was a member of the BBC Symphony, the Bath Festival and the Philharmonia Orchestras working with Kempe, Klemperer and Menuhin before going to play Principal Viola in the Bergen Symphony Orchestra, then with Celibididache in the Stockholm Radio Orchestra.
George spends much of his time these days doing film sessions and playing chamber music. George has painted for much of his life and has been strongly influenced by artists such as Graham Sutherland and fauvists painters, Matisse, Andre Derain and Dufy. George’s vibrant colours and landscapes and show something of his amazing journey!