Founders of Clapham Chamber Concerts to perform at St Paul's Church

Founders of Clapham Chamber Concerts to perform Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2 later this month.

Clapham Chamber Concerts' autumn season continues next week with Dmitri Shostakovich's powerfully emotive Piano Trio No 2, composed in 1944 in memory of victims of the Holocaust.

Founders of Clapham Chamber Concerts Amanda Lake (violin) and Jessie Maryon Davies (piano) will be joined by cellist Sophie Rivlin for two performances of this extraordinary work.

Amanda and Jessie, who grew up in Clapham and were both pupils at Heathbrook Primary School, founded Clapham Chamber Concerts in 2008 after they began working together as a duo.

In Piano Trio No 2, Shostakovich reflects the tragedy and horror perpetrated in the Holocaust.

The composer was said to have been deeply affected by a story about SS guards at the Treblinka and Majdaenk dead camps who forced Jewish prisoners to dig their own graves and dance upon them, giving rise to the macabre musical imagery that haunts the Trio's Finale.

Performed 77 years – almost to the day – after Piano Trio 2 received its premiere on November 14, 1944, details on how to book tickets to the concert at St Paul's Church can be found here.

Amanda, Jessie and Sophie will perform equally moving pieces by Ernest Bloch, Arvo Pärt and Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas during the first concert at 6pm and the second at 8pm.

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