About The Florestan Trio

The Florestan Trio would like to announce its final season of concerts. After 16 years of exceptional achievement and having recorded the major works of the Piano Trio repertoire to great acclaim, the career paths of the members of the Trio are diverging: Anthony Marwood will continue to develop his solo and directing activities; Richard Lester will be performing with the London Haydn Quartet, as a soloist and principal cello with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; and Susan Tomes will pursue solo engagements and chamber music projects, as well as writing and broadcasting. The Trio look forward to welcoming you to their last, celebratory Beethoven cycle at the Wigmore Hall, London, in January 2012.

Anthony Marwood (Violin)

Anthony Marwood was named Instrumentalist of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2006. He is a frequent soloist with orchestras around the world, and in the next two seasons will make his debuts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the St Louis Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, and has reinvitations to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Bournemouth Symphony, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Thomas Ades, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Douglas Boyd.

Richard Lester (Cello)

Leading chamber-musician, solo-cellist and member of the much-acclaimed Florestan Trio, Richard Lester appears regularly at the world’s foremost concert venues and festivals. Equally at home on both period instruments and ‘modern’, he is principal cello with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and has recently joined the London Haydn Quartet.

Susan Tomes (Piano)

One of Britain’s foremost pianists, Susan Tomes grew up in Edinburgh and was the first woman to study music at King’s College, Cambridge. She is in demand as a recitalist and concerto soloist, and has recorded over fifty CDs. She is particularly renowned for her achievements in chamber music. For sixteen years she was the pianist of the award-winning group Domus, and since 1993 has been the pianist of the Gaudier Ensemble. In 1995 she co-founded the Florestan Trio, now one of the world’s leading piano trios and one of the most-recorded. The trio won a 1999 Gramophone Award and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award 2000.