Nautilus Trio

For the first time in New Zealand - Nautilus Trio

Wilma Smith (violin)
Andrew Bain (horn)
Amir Farid (piano)

The Nautilus Trio was formed in 2010. Wilma Smith and Andrew Bain are both leading musicians with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Concertmaster and Principal Horn, and they wanted to play one of the great chamber music works of the repertoire together, the magnificent Horn Trio by Brahms.

They recruited award-winning Melbourne pianist, Amir Farid, known for his sensitive and charismatic chamber music collaborations as well as his solo playing, and the Nautilus Trio was born. This five-concert tour of New Zealand will be their first performances in this country and the last before Andrew moves to Los Angeles to take up his new position as Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Programme:
The programme introduces the members of the trio in two happy sonatas from the Classical repertoire to start with, Mozart's perfect little two-movement gem in A major for violin and piano and Beethoven's only Horn Sonata, written for the natural horn and exploiting all the wonderful characteristics of the instrument from cascading arpeggios to soulful melodies.

The first trio on the programme is by French composer, Charles Koechlin, a pupil of Faure - Ravel was also Faure's pupil at the same time. It is a beautiful and melodic work with typically Romantic French harmonies.

The programme concludes with the iconic trio by Brahms, one of his best and most-loved chamber music works. It is a perfect synthesis of wonderful idiomatic writing for each of the instruments with a total musical unity of purpose and ideal balance. It is the first masterpiece for this combination of instruments and one which has no doubt daunted all later hopeful composers.

Event listed by Nelson School of Music

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