Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 We are delighted to be welcoming the Zvarder Trio to Goodnestone for what will be a truly amazing evening. Savva Zverev [https://www.savvazverev.com/] A concerto soloist, chamber musician, orchestra player and leader, Savva is a member of the first violin section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Prior to joining the RPO, Savva had been No.3 Principal Second Violin with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and a regular player with such orchestras as the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Hall, CBSO, Welsh National Opera and the Ulster Orchestra, amongst others. He has also guest-lead the Royal Ballet and Northern Ballet sinfonias, Orchestra of Opera North, and Philharmonisches Orchester Gieen Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Savva moved to the UK as a full-scholarship student to learn with Yuri Torchinsky, Leader of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Royal Northern College of Music. As a student, he performed with orchestras across the North West as a soloist, most notably with The Hall and Northern Ballet Sinfonia. A pandemic graduate, Savva spent his lockdown recording all 24 Paganini caprices to raise funds for UK-based arts organisations, delivering hot food on Uber Eats, and working full-time at bet365 in Stoke-on-Trent. In 2020 Savva received the Best Male Actor award from the Greater Manchester Drama Federation, for the role of Andrea in a production by Northenden Theatre Players, Ladies in Lavender. Aristide du Plessis [https://www.aristidecello.com/biography-.html]Renowned for his passionate and exciting performances, UK-based cellist Aristide du Plessis works frequently with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Ulster Orchestra. As a Guest Principal Cellist he works regularly with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. He has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra player in some of the world's most renowned concert halls ranging from the Wigmore Hall, Zrich Tonhalle, Vienna Musikverein, Herkulessaal in Munich, Wiener Konzerthaus, Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican Centre, and the Philharmonie in Berlin. Having won numerous prizes in competitions such as the Kiwanis Chamber Music Prize (Zrich), ATKV Musiq, FMR/Nussbaum, Stellenbosch National Ensemble Competition (1st Prize, Axiom Piano Trio), he has made Chamber Music collaborations, at home and across Europe with artists such as Tai Murray, Anthony McGill, Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt, Leon Bosch, Kathy Tagg, Peter Martens, Keiko Tamura, Christopher Duigan, Nina Schumann, Frank Stadler, and Daniel Rowland. As a soloist he has performed since the age of 15 with all of South Africa's leading orchestras such as the KZN Philharmonic, the Cape Town Philharmonic, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Camerata Tinta Barocca (Cape Town) and Baroque 2000 (Durban), under the batons of conductors such as Bernhard Gueller, Daniel Boico, Alexander Fokkens, Brandon Phillips, Naum Rousine and Arjan Tien. A graduate of the University of Cape Town where he studied with Anmari van Der Westhuizen, Kristian Chernev and Marian Lewin, his initial training was with Kolio Kolev and later Boris Kerimov, in the Russian tradition. A Scholarship from the prestigious Oppenheimer Memorial Trust enabled him to further his studies at the Zrich University of the Arts, where he studied with the renowned pedagogue and long-time Principal cellist of the Tonhalle Orchestra, Thomas Grossenbacher. Further inspiration and encouragement was received from Maria Kliegel, Gary Hoffman, David Geringas, Richard Harwood, Thomas Carroll, David Cohen, Kristine Blaumane, Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt, Arto Noras, Eugene Osadchy, Claudio Bohorquez, Alexander Baillie, Amanda Truelove, Martin Lhr, Wolfram Christ, Alexey Selezneyev and Natalia Shakhovskaya. Aristide is also a passionate Cello Teacher, having presented Masterclasses for the South African National Youth Orchestra, the University of Cape Town, and at the KZN Philharmonic's Orchestra Academy. From 2015 to 2023 Aristide was initially Co-Principal and later Principal cellist of the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra. Aristide plays on a 19th century reconstructed Vuillaume Cello, as well as a rare bow by Charles Buthod, circa 1889. Sid Ramchander [https://oxfordsong.org/artist/sid-ramchander] Born in India, Sid Ramchander grew up in Bahrain, and is currently based in the UK. As a performer he has enjoyed a diverse range of musical activity, with concert appearances around the UK, Europe and the Middle East in the form of solo recitals, concertos with orchestra, duos and trios, art-song accompaniment, orchestral piano, and contemporary music ensembles featuring the premieres of new works. A skilled collaborative pianist, he enjoys ongoing partnerships with acclaimed singers and string players, and has been a Samling Artist since 2021. As a teacher, he is passionate about fostering creativity across musical genres to contextualise classical music education. He is the director of the Virtuoso Project, a piano academy based in Manchester. Sid made his first professional concert appearance as a soloist with orchestra at age 13 with the Belarusian Youth Orchestra at the National Cultural Festival in Bahrain. Shortly after winning the Young Musician Of The Gulf competition, he went to Belgium to study with Evgeny Mogilevsky and Aleksandar Madar at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels, completing Bachelor's and Master's degrees with honours. During this time, he received regular coaching from renowned pianists and pedagogues across Europe such as Karl-Heinz Kmmerling, Eugen Indjic and Andrzej Jasiski. Coming to the Royal Northern College of Music as a postgraduate, he completed Advanced Post Graduate Diplomas with distinctions in both Solo Performance (with Richard Ormrod) and Accompaniment (with David Jones), while receiving a number of prizes and nominations for Artist Programmes. For two years he served as a Junior Fellow in Accompaniment at the RNCM.

Nathan Winters-Clarinet Keren Starer-Shaw -Cello Helen Crayford- Piano Our first Clarinet concert at Goodnestone, including the Glinka and Zemenlinsky trios.