The Pirani Trio
Horn – Nicholas Ireson
Violin – Alexandra Reid
Piano – Timothy End
The Pirani Trio was founded in 2006 by three postgraduate students at the Royal Academy
of Music in London. The group aims not only to consolidate the standard Horn Trio repertoire
but also to encourage new compositions and to explore less well-known Trios which have
been rarely performed.
All three members held scholarships at the Royal Academy of Music and all graduated with
Distinction in June 2008. Whilst studying at the Academy the group gave frequent concerts
and received coaching from Michael Thompson and Julius Drake. As well as winning the
Academy’s Max Pirani Trio prize in 2007 they individually won numerous other competitions,
including the Dennis Brain Prize, the Delius Prize, the Sir Arthur Bliss Prize, and the Bache
Fund Prize. They have each performed with a wide range of orchestras and ensembles,
including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London
Sinfonietta, the London Chamber Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, the London Metropolitan
Orchestra, Orchestra Europa, the Dmitri Ensemble, the London Contemporary Orchestra,
and the European Union Youth Orchestra.
The Horn Trio is an established chamber group, but is currently surprisingly underrepresented in the chamber music world. The Pirani Trio aims to expand the repertoire by
working with contemporary composers, and they have recently asked students from both
King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Music to compose new works for Horn
Trio.
The Pirani Trio gives frequent recitals, most recently appearing in London, Bristol, Aylesbury,
and Cambridge. In 2007 the Trio was invited to perform Berkeley’s Horn Trio, op. 44 at a
Memorial concert for Dennis Brain given by the British Horn Society. Since 2007 they have
been the musicians in residence at the Festival des Arts de Parisot in France. Forthcoming
engagements in 2009 include a series of recitals in London at venues such as the Red
Hedgehog, Highgate, and the Travellers Club, Pall Mall.
The Pirani Trio
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Repertoire
Repertoire in the 2009 season includes:
Beethoven (Schmalfuss)
Trio Es-Dur Op.38 (nach dem Septett Op.20, Violine, Horn
und Klavier)
Berkeley
Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 44
Bourgeois
Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 70
Brahms
Trio für Klavier, Violine und Waldhorn, Op.40
Dussek
Notturno Concertante, Op.68
Duvernoy
Trio No. 1 for Violin, Horn and Pianoforte
Duvernoy
Trio No. 2 for Violin, Horn and Pianoforte
Josephs
Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 76
Matthews
Time Stands Still
Mozart (Naumann)
Trio (nach dem Quintett in Es-Dur KV 407, Violine, Horn und
Klavier)
Smyth
Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra (arranged by the
composer as Trio for Violin, Horn and Pianoforte)
The Pirani Trio
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