Professional Development 2022 — Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival

**PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY: FRAGMENTS – a musical laboratory where experiments can happen!**

This was a unique, exciting and in-person opportunity for emerging or early-career composers to try out new musical material - fragments, sketches and ideas with the renowned members of the Fidelio Trio.

Have you ever wondered what it would sound like to hear the violin played at the top of its register combined with rumbling of the lowest possible note on the keyboard? Or, the pulsating resonating effect of a violin, cello and piano all pounding out a low G at an almost out of control speed?

These musical insights were shared by the members of the Fidelio Trio in the Fragments workshop taking place as part of the Fidelio Trio’s annual Winter Chamber Music Festival in Drumcondra, Dublin.

Fragments was an opportunity to explore new sounds and techniques on the violin, cello and piano. Selected participants in Fragments had the opportunity to hear Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan-violin, Tim Gill-cello, Mary Dullea-piano) play a selection of their musical sketches or try out new ideas and sounds in a collaborative format. Fragments was a unique creative laboratory presented by Fidelio Trio in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre (CMC) and GlasDrum, at the Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival 2022.

Participation in the Fragments workshop was free and open to any composer born in or based on the island of Ireland. As a partner, the Contemporary Music Centre provided travel bursaries from within the island of Ireland for selected composers at this professional development workshop.

Featured Young Artist 2022

Mollie Wrafter - Violin

Mollie Wrafter has recently graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. During her time at RNCM, she won the Norman George Violin Competition and the Nossek Prize for Chamber Music. She was awarded the Irish Heritage Performance Bursary for her Wigmore Hall debut performance in 2019. Since completing her undergraduate study at RNCM, she has enjoyed a busy freelance career balancing solo engagements and her quartet. In April 2022, Mollie won the Aileen Gore Cup & RTE Lyric FM Award at the Feis Ceoil in Dublin. Subsequently, she was awarded the RDS Jago Award and a professional solo engagement with the RTE Concert Orchestra.

Mollie features on Manchester Collective’s debut LP, ‘The Centre is Everywhere’ and was named one of Golden Plec Magazine’s ‘PlecPicks’ in 2021. This year, she is returning to RNCM with the Treske Quartet to take part in the ‘RNCM Chamber Studio’ residency. The quartet has performed around the UK and has worked with a number of emerging composers. Most recently, Treske travelled to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada for the Evolution: Quartet programme, an innovative artist development programme for quartets and composers who are in the early stages of career development. Here, they worked with Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro, and performed the premiere of his piece ‘La Candela’ in collaboration with the JACK Quartet. Mollie plays a 1714 Collingwood violin and Sartory bow.