TRUNCH CONCERTS
This year we’re celebrating the 30th season of Classical concerts at St. Botolph’s in Trunch. Over the past three decades, Trunch Concerts have become a prominent fixture in the cultural life of North Norfolk.
The Pineau-Benois – Szokolay Duet, winners of the grand prix at the 2019 Pro Music International Competition (Paris), is highly regarded by the public in France, Hungary and other countries: the musicians are qualified as “young virtuosos” by the Figaroscope, complimented for the expressiveness of their playing by the Journal Francophone de Budapest. Their concert at the Salle Cortot in November 2019 ended with a standing ovation from the audience. In March 2020 they performed live on Dutch Radio from Concertgebouw chamber hall.
In March 2022 they received a standing ovation at the Francophone Festival in Budapest and recorded a programme of French Romantic music at Hungarian Radio Bartok.
During the seasons 2022-2023-2024 they were acclaimed in the Cortot hall in Paris and the Chamber Hall of Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest. The musicians manage to harmoniously combine their respective heritage of Hungarian, French and Russian music continuing Liszt, Debussy, Ravel and Bartok traditions.
The Duet is composed of musicians trained in prestigious European schools: the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) for the violinist François Pineau-Benois and the Liszt Academies of Budapest and Weimar for the pianist Adam Szokolay
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ChamberMusicBox Quintet (London) – Sat 20th June at St.Botolph’s, Trunch.
Mozart and Brahms Clarinet quintets.
Concert dedicated to Roy Abrams (1929 – 2019)
The The ChamberMusicBox:
“A perfect afternoon of music!” “Amazing!”
These are just some of the audience reactions to the performances of this outstanding group of international artists. Their journey started in 2016, when violinist Yuri Kalnits and cellist Julia Morneweg, both at that point already well-known on the chamber music circuit, created the new concept of a chamber music company. Since 2022 ChamberMusicBox continues to perform concerts across London and the rest of the UK, both in their own series as well as by invitation for some of the country’s leading chamber music promoters. Recent appearances include the 2023 Swaledale Festival, a tour of South West England for Concerts in the West, a recital at the London School of Economics as well their international debut in the prestigious Pharos Arts Foundation Series in Nicosia, Cyprus.