Goldscheider Horn Trio

Ben Goldscheider (French horn)
Benjamin Baker (violin)
Huw Watkins (piano)

What a delight to be joined by this exceptional trio of musicians! Ben, Benjamin and Huw visit Hexham with a programme featuring probably the most famous and celebrated piece in the horn trio repertoire – the trio by Brahms – and Ligeti’s companion piece, the Hommage à Brahms.

Winner of the brass category at the BBC’s Young Musician competition in 2016, Ben Goldscheider is now principal horn in Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He has played concertos with several of Europe’s leading orchestras and is a busy chamber musician performing with partners such as Daniel Barenboim himself, Martha Argerich and Stephen Hough – and his two partners this afternoon.

Ben Baker is much in demand as an international soloist and chamber musician. Recent highlights include concerts with the London Philharmonic and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He is also founder and director of the At the World’s Edge chamber music festival in his native New Zealand.

Appointed MBE for services to music in the 2021 birthday honours, Huw Watkins has a double career, busy as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls across Europe and North America, and as a composer.  He has written for ensembles as varied as the London Symphony and Hallé Orchestras, and the Nash Ensemble.  He has also been composer-in-residence at the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival.

Programme

Mozart (arr. Naumann) - Horn Quintet in E flat major, K.407

Ligeti ​​​​- Trio for violin, horn and piano (‘Hommage à Brahms’)

Watkins​​​ - Coruscation & Reflection for violin and piano 

Brahms - ​​​​Horn Trio in E flat major, op. 40

Image credit: Ben Goldscheider (horn player) and Benjamin Baker (violin) – Kaupo Kikkas