We are delighted to welcome The Lighthouse Trio to Weymouth for the first time in a programme of hitherto neglected Romantic works by Robert Kahn, Paul Juon and Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, plus Beethoven's most well-known trio.... Masumi Ogura (clarinet), Janet Coles (cello) and Nadia Lasserson (piano) Programme: Beethoven - Trio in B-flat, Op 11 Fr. W. Voigt - Nocturno, Op 75 P. Juon - Miniatures R. Kahn - Trio in g minor, Op. 45 Tickets 5 in advance or on the door Please note: this concert is NOT INCLUDED in our Season Ticket scheme. Season Ticket holders must book a standard ticket for this concert. Thank you. The Lighthouse Trio was formed in 2015 after Masumi and Nadia met in Sri Lanka in 2014. The Trio has given annual concerts over the last ten years when Masumi travels from Tokyo to play in the UK. Only two Lockdown years prevented the three musicians from getting together. They always perform in London and Aldeburgh and this year, they are delighted to come to Weymouth at the end of their 2025 concert tour. Masumi Ogura is a freelance clarinettist in Tokyo, having gained Bachelor and Masters degrees from Tokyo University of the Arts. She also won the Ataka prize and studied clarinet with Robert Marcellus at Northwestern University, USA. She has been visiting Sri Lanka four times a year since 2010, after the Civil War ended in 2009, to teach clarinet, piano and basic knowledge of Western music. Many of the students have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) as a result of the war and find music therapeutic. Janet Coles studied at Trinity College of Music and with Christopher Bunting and Lionel Handy. She has performed concertos in Germany, Holland, Vienna, Esterhaza, Switzerland and in the UK. She has also given solo and chamber music recitals at many venues, from the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room to barns and paddle steamers, and has played in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the DOyly Carte Opera and in West End shows. Janet teaches cello and chamber music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire Junior Department and in Somerset. Nadia Lasserson is an experienced performer of lieder, chamber music and concertos, having recorded the Mendelssohn Concerto for violin and piano and several of the 31 works composed especially for Piano 40 -a group of four pianists at 2 pianos- which she founded. A festival adjudicator and former Examiner for the Associated Board, Nadia teaches at Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music Junior Departments in London, at JAGS girls' school and also runs a private teaching practice in Herne Hill. A firm believer in the value of ensemble playing for pianists, her publication Piano Neednt Be Lonely, a Guide to over 400 pieces of Chamber Music and Multipiano Repertoire, is now in its third edition. She is the Organising Secretary for EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association), founded by her mother, Carola Grindea, and now in its 48th year.