fiorini Piano Trio Concert

fiorini is a London based all-Australian piano trio. They formed in 1996 with Victor Sangiorgio joining them in 2002. With a keen interest in diversity of repertoire, incorporating new and ‘undiscovered’ repertoire into their programmes, fiorini gave the premiere of Stevenson’s Movie Demons in both the UK and Australia and the London premier of Australian composer, Andrew Schultz’s Tonic Continent.

They also premiered and recorded John Carmichael’s piano quartet Sea Changes and in 1999 were honoured to be invited to perform at the Australian High Commission in London to celebrate the 70th birthday of renowned Australian composer, Peter Sculthorpe. They undertook their debut tour of Australia in 2005, with performances at the Barossa Music Festival, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University in Canberra and a live broadcast for the ABC Classic Live series.

Their London debut, in 2005, was for the London Chamber Music Series and they have appeared regularly ever since, with 2009 seeing their debut at the prestigious new Kings Place concert hall. April 2010 saw the trio’s debut for the Harare International Festival in Zimbabwe and they first appeared at Les Heures Musicales d’Aujols in 2008, the first year of the festival.

Italian by birth, Australian by adoption, Victor Sangiorgio (Piano) grew up in Perth. He won most Australian prizes and performed as soloist with all of the major orchestras in Australia before he left on a Stuyvesant scholarship for studies in Siena, Rome and the United States finally settling in London. He broadcasts frequently for the major UK radio stations and his diverse discography includes the complete solo piano works of Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff and Mendelssohn concertos. He has recently completed the 2nd volume of Cimarosa sonatas for Naxos and holds the post of piano lecturer at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Born in Adelaide, Belinda McFarlane (Violin) arrived in London as Leader of the Australian Youth Orchestra for the BBC Proms in 1988 - she liked it so much she stayed! In 1991 she joined the LSO as well as a committed member of the LSO’s Discovery (education) team, including work as Violin Animateur for ‘Take A Bow’, a project involving 100 violinists of all ages and abilities with performances in London and Paris. Belinda regularly returns to Australia to tutor for the Australian Youth Orchestra. She plays a Giuseppe Fiorini violin, after which the trio is named.

Born in Sydney, Matthew arrived in London in 1981 on a scholarship, becoming an Exhibition Student at the Royal College of Music from 1984-1988, winning both the Dorothy and Percy Coates Award for piano trio, and the Stern Award for cello. In 1992 Matthew was appointed to the position of sub-principal Cello for the BBC Concert Orchestra. Matthew is also a highly committed teacher, qualified in the Suzuki method of which he is a passionate advocate. He plays on a 1792 Benjamin Banks instrument.

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