Trio INCENDIO

Schubert, Shostakovich

Saturday 21 March 2026, 7.30pm,
St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH

Laureate of several competitions like the Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna, Joseph Joachim Competition in Weimar, Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano, Coop Music Awards in Cremona, Concorso Musicale “Marcello Pontillo” in Firenze, Trio Incendio has quickly established itself as one of the most distinctive young European ensembles. They performed in some of the finest European venues like the Wigmore Hall in London, Philharmonie Berlin or Rudolfinum in Prague and have been invited to festivals like Ticino Musica, Davos Festival, Ohrid Summer Festival or the chamber music season of the Prague Spring Festival.

Concerts of Trio Incendio are appreciated for the beauty and warmth of the sound, passion and stylistic clarity.

The trio participates regularly in the International Summer Academy in Reichenau organised by the University of Music in Vienna. At the academy, they were awarded the Wiener Klassik Prize, Bohuslav Martinů Prize and AHUV Prize for the best interpretation of Czech contemporary music. The trio also got the Chamber Music Prize for the best ensemble of the academy and the Audience Award.

Trio INCENDIO:

From Blues to Swing

Saturday 26 April 2026, 7.30pm,
St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH

Our audience love The Dixie Mix Jazz Band, one of the UK’s most engaging and successful jazz ensembles. The feedback after their concerts is always amazing: “A wonderful night’s music and entertainment that we are reliving again and again…”. “Congratulations on a very successful evening’s entertainment, for me personally it brought back many happy memories…”. This year the band  will be performing at St-Nicks Art Centre,  with the new programme  From Blues to Swing.  

The band is a professional six piece, excelling with fresh arrangements of many jazz favourites. With the best jazz musicians in East Anglia, enthusiasm for traditional jazz and great humour, the DixieMix has gained national recognition, leading to a tour with Rod Stewart, TV appearances and multiple festival and theatre gigs.

Simon Nelson –  TRUMPET/VOCALS
Chris Wigley – TROMBONE
Karl Wirrmann – CLARINET/SAX
Tony Wilkins – DRUMS/VOCALS
Kev West – GUITAR/BANJO
Maurizio Borgna – DOUBLE BASS

Golden Age of Old Russian Music: Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Aliab’ev, Glazunov

Sat 9th May 2026, 7.30pm, St. Botolph’s Church, Trunch.

The Pineau-Benois – Szokolay Duet, winners of the grand prix at the 2019 Pro Music International Competition (Paris), is highly regarded by the public in France,  Hungary and other countries: the musicians are qualified as “young virtuosos” by the Figaroscope, complimented for the expressiveness of their playing by the Journal Francophone de Budapest. Their concert at the Salle Cortot in November 2019 ended with a standing ovation from the audience. In March 2020 they performed live on Dutch Radio from Concertgebouw chamber hall.

In March 2022 they received a standing ovation at the Francophone Festival in Budapest and recorded a programme of French Romantic music at Hungarian Radio Bartok.
During the seasons 2022-2023-2024 they were acclaimed in the Cortot hall in Paris and the Chamber Hall of Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest. The musicians manage to harmoniously combine their respective heritage of Hungarian, French and Russian music continuing Liszt, Debussy, Ravel and Bartok traditions.

The Duet is composed of musicians trained in prestigious European schools: the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) for the violinist François Pineau-Benois and the Liszt Academies of Budapest and Weimar for the pianist Adam Szokolay.