Classical Babies

See the new Classical Babies page to find out about our concert series for mums and babies across London!

Ash Madni & the Cavatchi trio

Ash Madni is an up-and-coming Oxford-based composer who I met on Twitter a few months ago. Both interested in each other’s work, Ash sent me some of his music to listen to, and I love it! Expressing a particular interest in his piano trio work, and following communication with each other over several months, he is now working towards a launch concert of his trio compositions this Summer with a hope to record in the future. I have recently formed the Cavatchi trio, with violinist Antonia Azoitei and cellist Heidi Parsons and we look forward to playing his music in venues both in and out of London!

Information regarding future concert dates will be published here and on the Diary page as soon as dates are fixed.

“This new year is an exciting time for me personally. My violin concerto in E, Sounds from the bazaar, was performed by the Ten Tors orchestra on the 11th of Feb. This is to be followed by a series of piano trio concerts, firstly with the Cavatchi trio under the leadership of Nadine André and then with the Bristol Ensemble. Nadine is a passionate virtuoso concert pianist, with an infectious drive and enthusiasm both of which I deeply respect and admire.

I am really looking forward to working with Nadine's trio and consequently, have written a number of pieces to inspire them and I hope, challenge them. In addition to the concerts this year, I have a number of new compositions on the drawing board for string orchestra and solo violin, such as my Nomadic variations, Hungarian Dances and Violin concertos numbers 2 and 3. All of these I hope to complete, record and release on CD this year.”
Ash Madni

The Kingswood Trio

The Kingswood Trio will be playing at the Ship Theatre in Sevenoaks on Saturday the 15th September at 7.30pm.

We performed our first two concerts as a trio for Classical Babies in March, and had a great time. The audience was very appreciative and we felt privileged to be playing great works to such young people. (The youngest being just three weeks old!) We’re in the process of organising lunchtime recitals and future programmes for Classical Babies, and are very much looking forward to playing at the Ship Theatre in Sevenoaks in September. We hope to see you there!

This, also a newly formed trio, was the birth-child of violinist Hazel Ross. Hazel is a good friend of mine since our study days at the Royal Northern College of Music. We lived together on and off for four years, and have played as a violin and piano duo together since graduating.

Hazel performed for Classical Babies with cellist Pippa Rans, and it was then she proposed we got together as a trio. We’re enjoying every minute of rehearsing with one another and are looking forward to performing wonderful works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Haydn and Piazzolla in the near future!

Concerts will continue to be listed on the Diary page.

New Blogs!

I have succumbed to the idea of writing short articles on anything I fancy (within reason) and have set up my own blog site “Who Is Listening?” at www.nadineandre.blogspot.co.uk. My first blog is about Classical Babies and there will be much more to come. All feedback is welcome!

I also accepted the invitation to write regular blogs for the fantastic music and teaching website, Most Entertaining! It’s a great site run by two fantastic musicians; pianist and composer, Will Pickvance, and my good friend and trumpeter, Finlay Hetherington.

They believe that music should be accessible to all who want to learn, at any age and any level. Their website is designed to match students to the teachers that will be most suited to them, and therefore to help each and every student get what they personally want from learning music. Brilliant!

Visit www.mostentertaining.com (and check out the Blog page!)