New CD Beyond Horizons Launch Concert with Appassionata Trio 30th March 2008 7pm Tickets £10 on the door St George's Bloomsbury WC1A 2HR London
Rebecca Baulch, Hayley Savage and Amanda Cook formed Appassionata late in 2003. Their debut season included interviews and live performances on Classic Fm, BBC Radio 3's In Tune, an interview in Muso Magazine, and highly acclaimed concerts at the International Guitar Festivals at London's South Bank Centre and at Bath, Conway Hall. The trio have since been much in demand at venues and music festivals across the UK, Italy, Germany and the USA.Appassionata's first recording 'Let Go' was released by BGS Records in May 2005. It includes works written for the trio by Ben Verdery, Paulo Bellinati, Ned Bennett, Bruce MacCombie, Hayley Savage and Gary Ryan.Let Go is on the BGS label (BGS111), available from www.amazon.co.uk or www.guitarcds.net.The trio have also recorded a new CD of music by Stephen Dodgson, with Jonathan Leathwood, TETRA and Aquarelle quartets, Neil Jenkins, Rohan de Saram, Carl Herring, Bridget Upson and Richard Wright.Watersmeet is on the cadenza-music label, available from www.cadenza-music.com.'The Appassionata Trio brings together three of the country's finest classical guitarists, performing with musical insight, virtuosic energy and clarity of ensemble' Chris Stell of the Eden-Stell Guitar Duo'Performance of the highest order ... a persuasive and accessible programme superbly presented' Paul Fowles, Classical Guitar Magazine.Photograph by Andres Landino www.andreslandino.com