Pavlos Carvalho brings trio to Chichester Music Society

The concert will be on February 7 when they will play piano trios by Ravel and Mendelssohn: Schubert Notturno; Ravel trio in A minor; and Mendelssohn in D minor.

Chichester Music Society meetings are held at 7.30pm on Tuesdays in the Chapel of the Ascension, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester.

“I have done a lot of wonderful concerts with the Chichester Music Society,” Pavlos said, “and they have always been very supportive of me personally but this time will be very special because I will be joined by Miriam and by Jakob. Miriam I have known since college and she is one of the founders of Ensemble Reza. But when I was at college I was in a piano trio with Jakob who now lives up in Leeds and I have not played with him for at least 15 years. He's going to be coming down from Leeds which will be lovely. He is a phenomenal pianist. He is such a profoundly intuitive pianist but he also has such an intellectual approach. He will not play a note without thinking about it and thinking about its meaning but after he has measured and analysed the notes, he plays with the most fantastic passion and has an amazing sense of humour as well.”

With Miriam, Pavlos admires the beauty and incredible closeness of her relationship with her instrument: “People talk about having your instrument but with Miriam there's this incredible physical connection and emotional connection to her soul that creates something that is so incredibly warm and special. When she plays a phrase, it just hypnotises. She has flawless technique but that's not the interesting thing. She just has this sound and it is one of the most expressive sounds that I've ever heard. She is also a great thinker. There's not one note that she has not thought through but there is also this great natural instinctiveness to her playing. She marries instinctive with the intellectual, and the two of them, Miriam and Jakob, are just such great musicians to play with, great thinkers, great natural, great instinctive musicians.

“When you think about the music you're going to play we want to do things which are interesting for the audience and also interesting for us but also challenging for the audience and challenging for us. The Mendelssohn is a crowd-pleaser with its incredible virtuosity and the Schubert is like listening to lieder. It has a sweet sound to it. And the Ravel is a very modern sound, almost exotic. He was one of the revolutionary composers of the early 1900s and his music is so full of different colours and sounds that even today it sounds so very modern and different.”

Jakob is a pianist with an international profile. He has performed extensively in the UK and abroad and has recorded for Toccata Classics, Resonus Classics, Divine Arts and Naxos to great critical acclaim both as a soloist and collaborating artist. Chamber music and lied repertoire has always been at the heart of his playing career. Jakob has won numerous prizes at international competitions.

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