Florestan Trio Announces Breakup
First trio to win Royal Philharmonic Society Award
Florestans are calling it quits after 16 years.
Photo: Richard Lewisohn
The Florestan Trio, one of Britain’s leading piano trios, has announced its final concert season, which will culminate in January 2012 with a cycle of the Beethoven trios at London’s Wigmore Hall. The group’s decision to split was credited to their “diverging careers.” Violinist Anthony Marwood has a burgeoning solo career, cellist Richard Lester is a member of the London Haydn Quartet and principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Susan Tomes plans to continue her activities as a pianist and writer.
Formed in 1995, the Florestans have an extensive recording catalogue on Hyperion Records. Their disc of the first two Schumann Piano Trios received a Gramophone Award in 1999. “The Florestan is the ultimate in gentility and grace,” Fanfare magazine has opined.
By the time of their 2002 US debut, the Florestans were already a fixture in Europe and had founded an annual summer-music festival in Peasmarsh, East Sussex. In 2000, they were the first piano trio to receive the Royal Philharmonic Society Award.
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