Trinity College of Music, Young Musicians' Festival, 2001
![[Lycycdas Piano Trio]](images/older/lycydas.jpg)
Toby Tramaseur, violinCarol Adams, cello
Aleksander Szram, piano
The Lycydas Trio, all students at Trinity College of Music, have been together for three years, receiving coaching from Joely Koos and Cristine Croshaw. They have performed at numerous venues including the Cheltenham Festival, Regent's Hall, St John's Waterloo, Eastbourne Arts Centre, Eastbourne Music Academy, Southwark Cathedral, St Mary's Bexhill and Hinde Street Church. They have twice been employed by John Suchet to provide music for his Beethoven Lectures, including a performance at the Saville Club, and they recently performed for the Goldschmidt Society's annual lecture hosted by Simon Le Brecht. The Trio has participated in masterclasses with Adam Lovett, Barry Snyder, Madeleine Mitchell and Martino Tirimo, and was awarded Third Prize in last year's Barbirolli Competition.
At their concert at the Young Musicians' Festival on 1 May 2001, the Lycydas Trio will be giving premiers of two new works by Dai Fujikura.
Dai Fujikura was born in Osaka, Japan in 1977 and at the age of 15 came to Europe. He studied at Trinity College of Music with Daryl Runswick, and is currently at the Royal College of Music studying with Edwin Roxburgh. In 1996, he won the Serocki International Composers' Competition with Children, which has been performed by the Polish Radio Orchestra and broadcast in fifteen European countries. More recently he won the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers' Award 1998 with Frozen Heat performed by the Orkest de Volharding, and also by London Sinfonietta in Queen Elizabeth Hall. He won a prize in the Percussion Duo category in the 1999 HCMF with Grayed Rainbow performed by Kathryne Thomas in the Purcell Room. His chamber opera This Could Be Beautiful was premiered in Hoxton Hall by Adorning Opera Company, and other of his pieces have been performed in State of the Nation 2000, the Park Lane Group, Deal Summer Music Festival 2000, MusicaNova 2000 Sofia, Spitalfields Festival 1999 and 2000 and the Dartington Summer Course 1999 and 2000. His works have been peformed by, among others, London Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, Chinook Clarinet Quartet, Gerard McChrystal, Apollo Saxophone Quartet and London Sinfonietta.