{"id":122683,"date":"2026-06-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=122683"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:35:34","slug":"chamber-music-trio-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/living\/chamber-music-trio-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber music trio returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOP Australian chamber ensemble, the Seraphim Trio, is returning to Ballarat next Saturday 6 June at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>The trio is one of most Australia&#8217;s most acclaimed chamber music groups, sharing a lifelong friendship, and they will perform at the Anglican Cathedral Synod Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The group formed in Adelaide in 1995 with its current membership \u2013 Helen Ayres, Tim Nankervis and Professor Anna Goldsworthy \u2013 dating from 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Ayres is a freelance violinist and teacher, who is passionate about broadening performance opportunities for young instrumentalists in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>As well as her performances with Seraphim, Ayres teaches at the Elder Conservatorium of music, gives regular solo recitals and is a presenter for 5MBS FM.<\/p>\n<p>Cellist Nankervis is a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, has performed widely throughout Australia as a soloist, and as a member of the Australian World Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>He regularly tutors the Australian and Sydney Youth Orchestras.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Goldsworthy is director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide, and an award-winning pianist and writer.<\/p>\n<p>She performs extensively throughout Australia and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ballarat holds a very special place for the Seraphim Trio, an old friend that we have visited every year for almost two decades,&#8221; said Nankervis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seraphim Trio performs works by Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We return this year with a program that includes some other favourites, from the elegance and wit of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to the stormy intensity of Ludwig van Beethoven and the sweeping lyricism of Felix Mendelssohn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This program traces the evolution of the piano trio across a century of musical change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mozart&#8217;s radiant Piano Trio in G major opens with charm and conversational brilliance, before Beethoven&#8217;s dramatic C minor Trio, Op. 1 No. 3 pushes the genre into darker, more daring territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The concert culminates in Mendelssohn&#8217;s Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66, a work of restless energy, rich Romantic colour, and soaring melodic invention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together, these three masterpieces reveal the piano trio transformed from refined salon entertainment into a vehicle for profound emotional expression and virtuosic power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re absolutely thrilled to be returning to Ballarat to see our dear friends, and to bring a program that sparks pure lyrical joy from start to finish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Book at <a href=\"http:\/\/seraphimtrio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seraphimtrio.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOP Australian chamber ensemble, the Seraphim Trio, is returning to Ballarat next Saturday 6 June at 2pm. 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