Dorus Trio Elizabeth Walker – flute

Sebastian Comberti – violoncello Richard Shaw – fortepiano

A new and exciting programme of chamber music on original instruments.

The starting point for our NEW RECITAL programme is the Trio by Louise Farrenc, whose husband, the flautist Aristide Farrenc, claimed he was the first advocate, along with Louis Dorus, to adopt the same ring-keyed Boehm flute back Elizabeth will be playing in this recital. Programme to include a selection from: TRIOS Louise Farrenc - Trio op 45

Joseph Haydn - Trio no 29 in G major Hob 15 Carl Maria Weber - Trio in G minor (1818 - 1819) Op 63 Felix Mendelssohn - Trio op 49

FLUTE AND PIANO Louis Dorus - Feuillet d’album

Frédéric Chopin – Variations on a Theme by Rossini CELLO AND PIANO Fanny Mendelssohn - Capriccio and Fantasia

Gioachino Rossini - Allegro Agitato

PIANO solos Chopin, Mendelssohn and Alkan BIOGRAPHIES:

Elizabeth Walker “As perfect a demonstration of the modern wood flute’s capabilities as one could wish to hear” A review from PAN magazine. Elizabeth Walker has performed in a number of period orchestras including the English Baroque Soloists, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and the Classical Opera Company.

photo of Elizabeth and Richard at Geelvinck, Holland.

In 2008, Elizabeth recorded a solo CD of Telemann’s Fantasias on a modern wooden flute, followed in 2011 with a recording of the J.S.Bach Flute Sonatas with her group ‘Continuum’. In 2012, Elizabeth formed a partnership with the pianist Richard Shaw, exploring repertoire from the mid nineteenth century composed specifically for her original Louis Lot Boehm-system flute, dated 1859. Together they have recorded a CD of Schubert’s works for flute and piano for the record label ‘Devine Music’ and given recitals in England, Holland, Switzerland, Toronto (Canadian Flute Convention) and Chicago for the National Flute Association in America. Elizabeth is a flute teacher at the specialist music school in Wells and is in demand as a baroque flute teacher, following the success of her Baroque Flute Studies book (Winner – Best Flute Method NFA 2015) published by WonderfulWinds.

RICHARD SHAW specialises in chamber music and accompaniment and has performed extensively in Britain and abroad. In the last few years his many broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 include duo performances with violinists such as James Ehnes, Viviane Hagner, Leonidas Kavakos, So-Ock Kim, Pekka Kuusisto, Vadim Repin, Ittai Shapira and Nikolaj Znaider, cellists Richard Harwood and Li Wei, Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Martin Fröst (clarinet) and singers Nicole Cabelle, Jennifer Smith, Ailish Tynan, Alice Coote, Ruby Philogene, Jean Rigby, Anna Larsson, Robin Blaze, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Hal Cazalet, Kurt Streit, Matthew Rose, Jonathan Veira and Robert Pomakov.

He is Staff Accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music and is currently writing a biography of the distinguished Russian mezzo-soprano, Maria Karinskaya (1882-1942), following his discovery of an unknown 400-page Russian manuscript based on Karinskaya’s lost memoirs. His music album, Malcolm Arnold: Songs and Arias, is published by Novello & Co/Music Sales shortly. His recent CDs for the Deux-Elles label include music by the great French flautist Phillipe Gaubert, with Kathryn Thomas (flute), the chamber works and piano solos of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, ‘Piper’s Dream’ (with Ensemble Lumière) featuring the piano solos, flute and chamber works of Cecilia McDowall, and ‘Fauré and his circle’. He has recorded 26 CDs for Cramer Music.

Born in London, SEBASTIAN COMBERTI studied in Italy with Amedeo Baldovino and later with Derek Simpson and Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music. He was a founder member of the Bochmann Quartet until 1983 when he became principal cello with the London Mozart Players. He plays with a number of chamber groups including Trio Goya and Divertimenti. A keen interest in historically informed performance has resulted in participation with a great many of London’s period instrument groups, appearing as principal cello and soloist with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Hanover Band. As a member of several chamber groups he has recorded for CRD, EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Meridian, Phoenix and RCA and CPO. In April 2001 Sebastian Comberti founded the Cd label Cello Classics, devoted to recordings of rare repertoire and artists, himself releasing several Cds of sonatas by Boccherini, Stephen Paxton and early 19th Century works with fortepiano, and concertos by Haydn and Zumsteeg with the OAE.