The Fujita Piano Trio play

Dvorak, the Dumky Trio & Smetana, Piano Trio in G-minor

Maybe the finest Bohemian trios from the latter half of the 19th century..

The Fujita sisters from Japan have been playing chamber music together since early childhood. They made a highly acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall in March 1999 and they were invited to give a Purcell Room recital in June 2000 by the Kirckman Concert Society. Also in June, they made a successful debut at Oji Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Concert engagements have taken the Trio to Canada, France, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Romania, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, and they have won numerous awards and prizes, both as a Trio and individually. Arisa won the Audi Junior Musician Competition when she was only fifteen years old, Honoka won all the cello prizes at the Guildhall School, and Megumi won Fourth Prize at the Montreal International Piano Competition.

Arisa studied with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music, London (where she now teaches), Honoka studied at the Guildhall School with Jennifer Ward Clarke and Raphael Wallfisch, where the Trio also received coaching from the Takacs Quartet. Megumi studied at the Menuhin School with Louis Kentner, Simon Nicholls and Vlado Perlemuter and continued her studies at the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritskaya. They won the Chamber Music Prize at the Guildhall School in 1994.

Antonín DVORÁK (1841 – 1904)  ‘Dumky’ Piano Trio in E minor Op.90 1 I Lento maestoso - Allegro 4’19 2 II Poco Adagio 6’37 3 III Andante 6’10 4 IV Andante moderato 5’05 5 V Allegro 3’32 6 VI Lento maestoso 4’43  Bedrich SMETANA (1824 – 1884)  Piano Trio in G minor Op.15  7 I Moderato assai 11’22 8 II Allegro, ma non agitato –  8’31   Alternativo 1 : Andante – Tempo 1    Alternativo 2 : Maestoso – Tempo 1 9 III Finale: Presto 8’56  Antonín DVORÁK 10 ‘Silent Woods’ Op.68 No.5 5’40  from ‘From the Bohemian Forest’ (arr Dvorák for Cello & Piano)