Trio of Young Musicians to Perform at St. Nicholas Church

Afternoon programme features Suk, Shostakovich and Debussy

A concert with Doris Kuo - Violin, Siyu Sun – Piano and Idlir Shyti – Cello

September 5, 2024

The next concert to be held at St. Nicholas Church in support of young musicians will feature violinist Doris Kuo, pianist Siyu Sun and cellist Idlir Shyti.

They will be performing a programme that features Josef Suk’s Elegie Op.23, Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.1 in C minor, Op.8 and Debussy’s Piano trio in G major.

The event is at 3pm on Sunday 15 September and tickets cost £10 on the door or in advance on Eventbrite. Students are charged £5 for entry. You can stay afterwards for tea and cake at a cost of £5.

Doris Kuo is a violinist and Southbank Sinfonia alumni from New Zealand of Taiwanese descent. She has MMus from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and has worked with a range of internationally acclaimed conductors, performing in festivals and recordings in both the UK and Germany.

Aside from her career in the classical world, she has played for church bands around the UK, and performed with other groups such as Go West, Cutting Crew and Tom Hadley from Spandau Ballet alongside Sinfonia Smith Square.

Since summer 2021 she has performed a series of chamber recitals in various London churches including St James’s Piccadilly and St John’s Smith Square. Other notable venues she has played at are the Royal Albert Hall, Queen’s Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, The Bridgewater Hall and Salisbury Cathedral.

Siyu Sun is a New Zealand born pianist who has performed as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician in many of the world’s leading concert halls. Highlights include the Royal Albert Hall, Steinway Hall London, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, St. James Church Piccadilly, Milton Court Concert Hall, Auckland Town Hall, and Queensland Conservatorium Hall.

Siyu has won national and international competitions; the Guildhall Romantic Prize in London, Auckland Chamber Music Society Prize, and National Concerto Competition. Recently, she was a finalist in the keyboard section of the Royal Overseas League competition, winner of the Tait
Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Australian/New Zealand Musician, and prize winner of the Sheepdrove International Competition. Siyu recently completed an Artist Diploma with Distinction, the highest level of taught post-graduate study, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Professors Ronan O'Hora and Carole Presland.

Idlir Shyti is an Albanian cellist based in London. He has been awarded the ‘Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste’ under the tutelage of Anssi Karttunen at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Preceding, he studied with Richard Lester at the Royal College of Music London and at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia Rome with Maurizio Gambini. In his journey of learning, he has come across and played for many renown musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Gary Hoffman and Johannes Goritzki. As a soloist he has performed with Sudwestdeutche Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Southbank Sinfonia, Orkestra Filharmonike e Tiranes amongst others.

His debut album Intercourse of Fire and Water which includes 20th century music for cello solo was recently released by Coviello Contemporary.

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