Unquiet Sleepers” – Stephen Johnson and the Waldstein Trio

Greta Papa – Violin
Miguel Ángel Villeda – Cello
Christos Fountos – Piano

Special Guests:
Andrew Marriner – Clarinet
Tim Jones – Horn

The Waldstein Trio rose to prominence after winning the CAVATINA Chamber Music Competition at Wigmore Hall and receiving the Carne Trust Junior Fellowship at Trinity Laban. They have since performed at venues including the Musikverein, Beethoven-Haus, Mozarteum, and Carnegie Hall, following multiple international competition wins.

Equally committed to core repertoire and new music, the Trio has collaborated with contemporary composers and performed across Europe and North America. Their debut album with Orpheus Classical is due in 2025.

Writer, composer, broadcaster and arranger Stephen Johnson presented Radio 3’s Discovering Music for 14 years, as well as a series of 14 programmes about the symphonies of Bruckner. He is also a regular contributor to the BBC Music Magazine. He is the author of Bruckner Remembered (Faber 1998), and studies of Mahler and Wagner (Naxos 2006, 2007). His book How Shostakovich Changed My Mind (Notting Hill Editions, 2018) won a Rubery Book Award in 2021. It was followed in 2020 by a book about Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 (Faber). Stephen’s orchestral work Behemoth Dances had its premiere in Moscow in April 2016, and its UK premiere in in May. In January-February 2019 his Clarinet Quintet Angel’s Arc was performed by Emma Johnson and the Carducci Quartet, with further performances at Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival, New York and Australia. His ghost story-inspired Quintet Unquiet Sleepers had its premiere at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in 2024.

Join us for a drink! The bar is open before and after the performance.
Serving until 22:00.