BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1658@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20250828T190000Z DTEND:20250828T190000Z DTSTAMP:20251108T164048Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/trio-papageno/ SUMMARY:Trio Papageno DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Bager\, flute\, Laura Riccardi\, violin and Andrea Bre ssan\, bassoon\n\nIn a programme of Joseph Haydn: London Trio No. 1 in C m ajor Hob. IV\; Beethoven: Duo for violin and bassoon No. 3 in B flat major \, WoO 27 and Theme and 12 variations on ‘Ein Weibchen oder Mädchen’\ , Op. 66\; Giuseppe Tamplini: Fantasy on themes from Don Pasquale\; Igor S travinsky: Les Cinq Doigts\; Carey Blyton: After Hokusai for flute and vio lin\, Op. 89\; Jean Francaix: Sept Impromptus (selection) for flute and ba ssoon and Julius Röntgen: Trio in G major\, Op. 86\n\n\n\nAndrea Bressan currently holds the principal bassoon chair of the Budapest Festival Orche stra. He has also played as principal with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra\, Cappella Barca\, Scottish Chamber Orchestra\, Orchestre de la Suisse Roman de\, Orchestra del Teatro Alla Scala in Milan\, I Solisti Veneti\, Konzert haus Orchester Berlin and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai. He has played baroque and classical era music on period instruments with the Venice Baroque Orchestra\, Il Concerto Italiano\, Il Pomo d’Oro and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. He has performed in all the main concert halls around the world (Asia\, Europe\, America) with conductors such as Claudi o Abbado\, Ivan Fischer\, Daniel Harding\, Franz Welser-Möst\, Fabio Luis i\, Jordi Savall and Cristopher Hogwood. Since 2003 he has regularly colla borated as principal bassoon with the Orchestra da camera di Mantova. As s oloist he won 1st prize at the Tradate International Competition (1990)\, 2nd prize at the Concorso Internazionale “Riviera del Conero” (1999) a nd 1st prize at the Sàndor Vegh competition in Budapest (2014). Andrea ha s recorded for the labels Egea\, Brilliant\, Velut Luna\, CPO\, Channel Cl assics among others. In the field of chamber music he has worked alongside musicians such as Alexander Lonquich\, Igor Roma\, Domenico Nordio\, Fran co Petracchi\, Enrico Bronzi\, Roberto Prosseda and Silvia Careddu. Over t he years he has explored and developed other musical genres\, including ja zz improvisation and ethnic music\, playing with Paolo Fresu\, Markus Stoc khausen\, Saverio Tasca\, Patrizia Laquidara and Mario Arcari. He is curre ntly a tenured bassoon teacher at the “F. Dall’Abaco” Conservatory i n Verona\, Italy.\n\nLaura Riccardi began violin studies with her father\, the violist Tito Riccardi\, before continuing at the Conservatorio Guisep pe Verdi in Milan where she graduated in 1992. Following her love of cham ber music she specialised in the genre with Riccardo Brengola at the Accad emia Chigiana in Siena where\, in 1993\, she was awarded the Diplome de M erit and\, in 1995\, an Honours Degree. In the same year she graduated fro m the Accademia del Trio di Trieste. In 2013 she graduated in Chamber Mus ic studies from the Accademia di Santa Cecila in Rome. She has also studie d violin and viola with Dejan Bogdanovich and Pierre-Henri Xuereb. She ob tained a Diploma in Viola from the Conservatorio di Piacenza in 2006. Laur a Riccardi has collaborated with orchestras such as the RAI Symphony Orche stra of Milan\, the Scala Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Swiss Italian Radi o Orchestra\, the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genova\, the RAI National Symphon y Orchestra of Turin\, the Festival Strings of Lucerne\, the Human Rights Orchestra of Lucerne and the Teatro San Carlo of Naples. From 1993 until 2007 she was a permanent member of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano as le ader and co-leader\, playing under conductors such as Riccardo Chailly\, Riccardo Muti\, Georges Prêtre\, Rudolf Barshai\, Valery Gergiev\, Lucia no Berio and Christopher Hogwood. She is currently a permanent member of t he Mantova Chamber Orchestra and of the International Festival Orchestra of Stresa. Laura Riccardi is a highly active chamber musician\, exploring the different dialogues of both violin and viola in various formations. Sh e has also collaborated with the contemporary chamber group Sentieri Selva ggi\, and with Ludovico Einaudi has toured the most prestigious festivals and concert halls of Italy and Europe. Besides her concert activity\, Lau ra is professor of Chamber Music at the Angelo Corelli Conservatorio in Me ssina\, Sicily\, and teacher of the Suzuki method for violin and viola. Sh e also devotes time to the training of amateur orchestras\, convinced that musical experience is crucial to human and cultural enrichment\, indepen dent of technical ability.\n\nJonathan Bager entered the Royal College of Music\, London in 1975 to study with Sebastian Bell. He graduated in 1979 and took up a post as flute and piano teacher at the Akureyri Music School \, Iceland. In 1983 he moved to Reykjavik to become a member of the Icelan d Symphony Orchestra. During the following years Jonathan played an active part in Reykjavik’s busy musical life\, dividing his time between symph ony orchestra\, opera orchestra\, ensemble and recital work\, as well as f lute teaching in local music schools. Jonathan returned to the United King dom in 1987. The move also saw him take a new professional direction: in 1 989\, following a course in information technology\, he secured a post wit h a major U.K. bank in London. Alongside this new commitment he continued to pursue his musical interests with chamber music\, recitals and involvem ent in London’s rich amateur orchestra scene. In 1991 Jonathan moved to Switzerland. There he balanced a day job developing banking systems with m usical activity in his leisure hours. Now retired from banking\, he contin ues to hold the position of principal flute in the Orchestre Symphonique e t Universtaire de Lausanne and the Orchestre de Ribaupierre in Vevey\, Swi tzerland. A frequent visitor to India\, and Pune resident between 2011 and 2012\, he gave a recital there in June 2012 with the Icelandic pianist Kr istinn Kristinsson. In 2013\, together with his two sons\, Frederic and Je remy (piano and bassoon)\, he returned to India to make music across the c ountry\, playing concerts in Bombay\, Goa\, Calcutta\, Bangalore and Pune. With Laura Riccardi and the pianist Angela Feola\, he embarked on another tour of India in 2016\, performing in Bombay\, Goa\, Chennai\, and again in Bangalore and Pune. 2019 saw Jonathan and Laura visit Goa to collaborat e with the Child’s Play Foundation. More recently\, in January 2024\, Jo nathan performed a joint recital with the pianist Tatyana Dichenko at Furt ados’ Steinway showroom in Mumbai.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2025/07/Trio-photo1.jpg CATEGORIES:Trios END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR