CAM Concerts in Oxford and Stow
Coral Fantasy by Wendy Hiscocks will feature in two fabulous concerts with one of Australia’s most acclaimed chamber music groups: the Seraphim Trio…
Australian composer Wendy Hiscocks – now resident in Gloucestershire – composed the Coral Fantasy in 1993. Since then this piano trio work has had multiple performances around the world.
‘When playing the piano for a London children’s ballet company, a friend suggested I write a ballet set in a coral reef. Trips to Hawaii and Australia further fed my imagination with exotic possibilities in tropical waters. Coral Fantasy was the result and captures a magical array of underwater currents, jellyfish and clown fish, a tropical sunset and the sunlight reflecting off the surface of the water.’
Wendy Hiscocks
This engaging work has also been recorded by Symposium:
‘… elegantly depicts its scenes of marine life within a coral reef against a context of dawn and dusk above the waves’
Gramophone
The first concert is on 8 February at St. Michael & All Angels in Oxford. The trio will perform classics by Haydn and Ravel alongside Australian music by Wendy Hiscocks and Elizabeth Younan as well as variations on Schubert’s Trauerwalzer by Kats-Chernin, Bowman and Keller.
The following day on 9 February, the trio will perform a one hour programme in the beautiful St. Edward’s Church in the heart of Stow-on-the-Wold with Haydn and Ravel classics alongside Wendy’s Coral Fantasy.
