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Gould Piano Trio

Wigmore Hall, 16-Jun-2024 / 11:30

Wigmore Hall, 23-May-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 26-Feb-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 14-Dec-2022 / 19:30

The trio consists of violinist Lucy Gould, cellist Richard Lester and pianist Benjamin Frith.

Richard Lester replaced Alice Neary as cellist in 2019.

Wigmore Hall, 29-Dec-2021 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Piano Trio No. 4 in E K542
  • Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66
  • Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67

Wigmore Hall, 26-May-2021 / 19:30

Recital with clarinetist Robert Plane

  • Huw Watkins: Four Fables
  • Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Wigmore Hall, 1-Mar-2021 / 13:00

  • Amy Beach: Piano Trio Op. 150

Wigmore Hall, 29-Oct-2020 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Piano Trio No. 6 in G major
  • Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio
  • Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

The trio performed Mozart's Trio in E k.542, Korngold's Trio op.1 and Brahms' Trio in C op.87 on the 16th of February 2020 at the Conway Hall.

Favourite pieces

Beethoven's Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 'Archduke' performed in 2015 (January).

Schubert's Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major D898 performed in 2021 (March).

The trio performed Kirchner's I. Zwiegesang, II. Humoreske, IV. Scherzino, V. Novellette, VII. Barcarola, X. Mädchenlied and XII. Abendmusik from Bunte Blätter Op. 83 and Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 on the 13th of May 2019 at the Wigmore Hall.

The trio played

  • > Haydn's Trio in A Hob XV;9 and Smetena's Trio in G minor op.15 at St.Peter’s Church, Eaton Square on the 26th of April 2018.
  • > Beethoven's Piano Trio in B flat major Op. 97 and Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 on the 18th of March 2018 in a Sunday morning concert at the Wigmore Hall.
  • > more Beethoven Trios on the 10th of December 2017 at the Wigmore Hall.
  • > Beethoven's Piano Trios No 1 and 2 on the 10th of July 2017 at the Wigmore Hall.
  • > a new work by Mark Simpson, BBC Young Musician and BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year on the 9th of July 2017 in the Weston Roof Pavilion in the Royal Festival Hall

Richard Lester became the principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in 1989, is a founder-member of Domus and is also co-director of the annual Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival in East Sussex.

Lucy Gould studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Indiana University Bloomington.

Wigmore Hall, 31-Jan-2017 / 19:30

  • Schubert:
    • Notturno in E flat major D897
    • Piano Trios No. 1 D898 and D929

Wigmore Hall, 14-Jan-2015 / 19:30

  • Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101
  • James MacMillan: Piano Trio No. 2

Benjamin Frith is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and also formed the Frith Piano Quartet.

He won the Gold Medal at the Artur Rubinstein Piano Master’s Competition in 1989, and also won the Dudley National Concerto Competition in 1971.

Kings Place, 14-Jun-2014 / 19:30

  • Schubert, piano trios: No. 1 and No. 2

Kings Place, 14-Jun-2014

  • Schubert, trios: Nos. 1, 2

The Trio made their BBC Chamber Proms debut on the 26th of August 1996 in the Britten Theatre.

Benjamin Frith was born 1957.

Britten Theatre, 3-Aug-1996 / 19:30