Trio Gaspard play for the Chichester Chamber Concerts series

Trio Gaspard are the November guests in the Chichester Chamber Concerts series.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to

00:06know that the Trio Gaspar is coming our way for a concert for the Chichester Chamber Concert

00:12Series. Nicholas, tell me about how long have you been going as a trio?

00:18Hi there, so we've been going as a trio for about 15 years actually, and I joined 10 years

00:26ago, and it's a real privilege to be coming to the UK again to play a programme that we've

00:32not really played in the UK at all, with some really unusual Hungarian composers.

00:38And that's a project that you've got on Budapest at the moment, isn't it?

00:45Exactly, yeah. At the end of November we're going to travel to the UK to record in the

00:51place we always record for Chandos in Suffolk, a beautiful hall there called Pottenpole.

00:56And we'll be recording not just the Hungarian pieces, so we have trios by Beres and Leita,

01:07but also the big Brahms C major trio, which has a lot of Hungarian influences in it,

01:13which is why it fits so nicely into the programme. Fantastic, and the fact that you're coming back

01:17to the UK is of great significance for you. You grew up in the UK, being half German, half English.

01:24Indeed I did. I grew up near, close to Manchester in Wigan, and I grew up bilingually, and when I

01:32decided to come to Germany to study, after having studied first in England, and yeah,

01:37I ended up making my life here, and the trio is based here in Europe. It's, Bastian and Jonian

01:44are now currently living in Vienna as of this year, and so I'm quite excited about getting to

01:50go to Vienna more regularly in the next few weeks and months. I will leave you to your cafe,

01:59lovely to speak to you, and have a great trip back to the UK. Thank you. Thank you very much,

02:04look forward to seeing everyone in Chichester. Thank you.