Classical Guitar Magazine, 2004
Album Description
About the Artist
Following graduation all three independently established themselves as highly respected musicians. Between them they have won international competitions, performed in venues such as the South Bank Centre and Wigmore Hall, and composed for orchestras and soloists to great acclaim. Their performances have taken them to New York, Los Angeles, Canada, Sicily, Belgium, Switzerland, Hawaii, Brazil, Kenya, Hungary, France, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as all over England.
In 2003 the girls re-convened in a professional context, this time to form Appassionata. Their debut season included interviews and live performances on Classic Fm, BBC Radio 3's In Tune and Radio Gloucestershire, an interview in Muso Magazine, and highly acclaimed concerts at the International Guitar Festivals at London’s South Bank Centre and at Bath, Conway Hall, and many other venues and music festivals across the UK.
Appassionata have had a number of works commissioned for them by IGF including Maracatu da Pipa by the renowned Brazilian guitarist, composer and musicologist Paulo Bellinati, Food for Fish by Ned Bennett, premiered at the Purcell Room in May, and Tango Amoroso by Bruce MacCombie, premiered at the International Guitar Festival, Bath in July. The trio have been invited to perform in Italy and the USA.
