Doors 11.30am. Start 12pm. Adv ticket £10. OTD ticket £12.

Volo Trio – Nightingales and Fairytales
Claudia Alvarez-Calderon – soprano; Alex Wilson – piano; Ruth Molins – flute.
Programme includes music by: Chopin, Delibes, Will Carnell, Gordon Jacob.
Volo Trio are coloratura soprano Claudia Alvarez Calderon, beautifully evocative flautist Ruth Molins and award-winning pianist Alex Wilson. The word volo means flight in Italian, and their performances are inspired by birds and flights of imagination. Audiences describe them as stunning; really beautiful; truly the stuff of fairytales: enchanting, magic and wonderful and amazingly talented.
The programme Nightingales and Fairytales offers the listener a melodious escape into a world of stories and birds, some familiar and some unusual, as well as regional poetry set to new music by local composer Will Carnell, commissioned for the Volo Trio.

Now based on Dartmoor, Claudia also maintains an active singing schedule in Devon and collaborates with local musicians. She has sung live at BBC Radio Devon, for Dart Music Festival and toured village halls with Diva on your Doorstep, an initiative to make opera accessible by bringing it to smaller communities.

Alex’s debut solo CD – a recording of works by WW1 composer F.S.Kelly – was released in spring 2020 to critical acclaim with a launch performance in Southwark Cathedral. Alex believes strongly in taking professional, ambitious music projects out of the big cities and loves working with musicians from across the South West. Alex teaches piano at Colyton Grammar School.

In 2019 she curated and performed the Flute@37 concerts, a series of intimate performances given from her own music studio. During the 2020 lockdown, she gave live-streamed performances of Les Chants de Nectaire by Charles Koechlin, connecting weekly with listeners world-wide. In 2017 her composition, Make Room was performed at Waterstones, The Glorious Art House and Studio 36 in Exeter. Ruth teaches flute at Exeter School and privately. In 2021, Ruth was invited by Pearl flutes artist, Elizabeth Walker, to record a performance video with practice tips, as part of the Furstenau Challenge project.
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Volo Trio - Sun 24th Apr. Doors 11.30am. Start 12pm.
April 24, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
