Cirrus Piano Trio Summer Chamber Music Concert No. 1
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Cirrus Piano Trio Summer Chamber Music Concert No. 1
David Burrowes, Cello
Martin Smith, Violin
Martin Ennis, Piano
Friday 6th June
St Martins Church, High Street St Martins, Stamford
6.30 Instrument demos
Martin Smith and David Burrowes will play on instruments from Stamford Strings and tea and coffee will be served
7.30 Concert Programme (no interval)
Josef Haydn: Piano Trio in G The Gypsy Rondo Hob. XV:25
Johann Halvorsen: Duet: Passacaglia on a theme by Handel for Violin & Cello
Antonín Dvorák Piano Trio The Dumky op.90
David Burrowes, Cello
Martin Smith, Violin
Martin Ennis, Piano
Friday 6th June
St Martins Church, High Street St Martins, Stamford
6.30 Instrument demos
Martin Smith and David Burrowes will play on instruments from Stamford Strings and tea and coffee will be served
7.30 Concert Programme (no interval)
Josef Haydn: Piano Trio in G The Gypsy Rondo Hob. XV:25
Johann Halvorsen: Duet: Passacaglia on a theme by Handel for Violin & Cello
Antonín Dvorák Piano Trio The Dumky op.90
David Burrowes
Born in Dublin, David Burrowes sang as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral. Later, he was a choral scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read music. He has played as guest principal cello with the London Mozart Players and City of London Sinfonia, as well as performing extensively with the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras.
He held the post of Principal Cello in the London production of The Phantom of the Opera from 1998- 2020, and during this period was also a member of Primavera. He is the cellist of the Cirrus String Quartet: www.cirrusstringquartet.com
He has performed in chamber concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room with Cirrus and Primavera, and has appeared on a considerable number of chamber CDs with both groups.
He has taught at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Guildhall School, and from 2010-17 he was the Course Director of the Pro Corda Cello Course. He currently holds a number of teaching posts in London, Guildford and Chelmsford.
He plays on a cello made by Thomas Kennedy in London in 1801.
He held the post of Principal Cello in the London production of The Phantom of the Opera from 1998- 2020, and during this period was also a member of Primavera. He is the cellist of the Cirrus String Quartet: www.cirrusstringquartet.com
He has performed in chamber concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room with Cirrus and Primavera, and has appeared on a considerable number of chamber CDs with both groups.
He has taught at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Guildhall School, and from 2010-17 he was the Course Director of the Pro Corda Cello Course. He currently holds a number of teaching posts in London, Guildford and Chelmsford.
He plays on a cello made by Thomas Kennedy in London in 1801.
Martin Smith
Martin Smith has a distinguished record as a solo performer, chamber musician, orchestral principal, conductor and director.
Martin was an Exhibition holder at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and a scholarship winner at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied violin and conducting. He began his career as a member of the Duke String Quartet, appearing with them throughout Britain and Europe, and has also appeared with the Allegri and Bridge Quartets and with the Primavera Ensemble. He currently leads the Cirrus String Quartet, with whom he recently released two recordings of works by little-known English composers.
Martin has worked with many of the country’s foremost chamber orchestras, such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the English Chamber Orchestra; he has been a member of the London Mozart Players for many years, and now sits on the orchestra’s governing body. He is leader of Orchestra Nova, a chamber ensemble which promotes new music by British composers, and has appeared widely as guest leader and guest principal. With Nova he has led many premières and première recordings of music by British composers. He has made solo appearances around the UK and also in France, Germany, Holland and the United States, many with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, which he led and directed for over ten years.
As conductor Martin has appeared with the London Mozart Players and has led orchestral workshops for them and for ESTA. He is artistic director of Enfield Chamber Orchestra, the Richmond Orchestra and the Winchmore String Orchestra, and is in increasing demand as a guest conductor.
Martin was an Exhibition holder at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and a scholarship winner at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied violin and conducting. He began his career as a member of the Duke String Quartet, appearing with them throughout Britain and Europe, and has also appeared with the Allegri and Bridge Quartets and with the Primavera Ensemble. He currently leads the Cirrus String Quartet, with whom he recently released two recordings of works by little-known English composers.
Martin has worked with many of the country’s foremost chamber orchestras, such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the English Chamber Orchestra; he has been a member of the London Mozart Players for many years, and now sits on the orchestra’s governing body. He is leader of Orchestra Nova, a chamber ensemble which promotes new music by British composers, and has appeared widely as guest leader and guest principal. With Nova he has led many premières and première recordings of music by British composers. He has made solo appearances around the UK and also in France, Germany, Holland and the United States, many with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, which he led and directed for over ten years.
As conductor Martin has appeared with the London Mozart Players and has led orchestral workshops for them and for ESTA. He is artistic director of Enfield Chamber Orchestra, the Richmond Orchestra and the Winchmore String Orchestra, and is in increasing demand as a guest conductor.
Martin Ennis
Martin Ennis recently retired from a professorship in Cambridge University’s Faculty of Music, for which he served as Chair for nearly a decade. He remains Fellow and Director of Music of Girton College.
Martin’s academic work centres on the music of Johannes Brahms. He organised an international conference on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem to mark the work’s 150th anniversary, and over the past decade has given research papers in the UK, the US, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Australia and New Zealand.
Martin combines university life with a busy career as a performer. He has been the principal keyboard player of the London Mozart Players for some 25 years, and he performs regularly with the OSJ (the Orchestra of St John’s). He has also played with the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner (for its 25th-anniversary concert), the OAE, the Collegium Cartusianum (Cologne), the Polish Chamber Orchestra (for a recording on Deutschlandfunk), the Juilliard School Chorus and, as soloist, with members of St Luke’s Chamber Orchestra (New York).
He has made numerous recordings, including a concerto with the RPO, and his compositions have been performed in Westminster Abbey and the Royal Albert Hall (in a Prom). As Director of Girton College’s Chapel Choir and Director of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir, Martin has worked as conductor throughout the world. Freelance projects include Messiah, directed from the keyboard in the Forbidden City, Beijing, and a solo harpsichord recital in the Gdańsk Festival, for which he (re)constructed several fragmentary works by Mozart.
Martin’s academic work centres on the music of Johannes Brahms. He organised an international conference on Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem to mark the work’s 150th anniversary, and over the past decade has given research papers in the UK, the US, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Australia and New Zealand.
Martin combines university life with a busy career as a performer. He has been the principal keyboard player of the London Mozart Players for some 25 years, and he performs regularly with the OSJ (the Orchestra of St John’s). He has also played with the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner (for its 25th-anniversary concert), the OAE, the Collegium Cartusianum (Cologne), the Polish Chamber Orchestra (for a recording on Deutschlandfunk), the Juilliard School Chorus and, as soloist, with members of St Luke’s Chamber Orchestra (New York).
He has made numerous recordings, including a concerto with the RPO, and his compositions have been performed in Westminster Abbey and the Royal Albert Hall (in a Prom). As Director of Girton College’s Chapel Choir and Director of the Cambridge University Chamber Choir, Martin has worked as conductor throughout the world. Freelance projects include Messiah, directed from the keyboard in the Forbidden City, Beijing, and a solo harpsichord recital in the Gdańsk Festival, for which he (re)constructed several fragmentary works by Mozart.