Gould Piano Trio

From early success at the Charles Hennen Competition in Holland and the inaugural Melbourne Competition, the Gould Piano Trio boasts an impressive discography, with festival appearances at Edinburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Bath, Aldeburgh, Spoleto and the BBC Proms. Regular and extensive tours to the United States have covered major venues in New York, including the Lincoln Center, Frick Collection and Weill Hall, and in Europe highlights have included the Queens Hall Edinburgh, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Brussels Palais des Beaux Arts, as well as recitals in Paris, Cologne, Athens and Vienna, and regular performances at London’s Wigmore Hall. While playing most of the established masterworks of the trio repertoire, they have done much to extend boundaries, challenging audiences with contemporary works, many of which they have commissioned. For three years they were artists-in-residence at the Royal Northern College of Music, with which they still maintain a close connection. This has given them the opportunity to build relationships with young ensembles, introducing them to a wider repertoire. Its recording of Stanford’s Chamber Music (Naxos 8.572452) is part of an ongoing series for Naxos where the Gould Piano Trio is recording chamber music by the late English Romantics Bax, Stanford and Ireland, for which they have been shortlisted for a Gramophone Award. Lucy Gould’s violin is a Joseph ‘filius Andreas’ Guarneri of 1703, while Alice Neary’s cello was made in 1710 by Alessandro Gagliano.