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The Rosina Trio was formed in 2001, when all three players met
through their studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Over the years, they have built up a wealth of performing
experience, covering all the major clarinet trio repertoire in
numerous concerts and competitions throughout the capital, including
Masterclasses with the Florestan Piano Trio. More recently, their
playing has taken them to the East Coast of America and South Africa
as resident musicians on Swan Hellenic’s Minerva II cruise ship,
where they are booked to play in a series of concerts later this
year. Plans are also underway for a tour of Southern France and
Italy.
Biographies
Luisa Rosina (clarinet)
 Born in 1981 in Dorset Luisa began playing the clarinet at the
age of seven and received a scholarship to Wells Cathedral School.
In 1999 Luisa entered the Guildhall School with Julian Farrell, Dame
Thea King and Andrew Webster receiving a BMus and PGDip in
orchestral training. Luisa has been supported with scholarships and
bursaries and was the winner of the woodwind prize in 2005. Luisa
currently holds a Junior Fellowship at the Guildhall.
Luisa has performed with the Britten-Pears Orchestra, Garsington
Opera, European Vacation Chamber Orchestra, European Academies
Symphony Orchestra and The National Musicians Symphony Orchestra. In
2004 she received a scholarship to the Bach Academy in Stuttgart,
and was principal clarinet of the Stuttgart Festival Orchestra.
Luisa is also an extra player for the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra.
As a soloist Luisa has given recitals throughout the UK and
performed Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in Ostend and the Richard
Bissills Concerto for clarinet, horn and trumpet with players of the
London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004, Luisa gave a solo
performance in the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Birtwistle Festival and
in 2005 played with Thomas Ades in his piece Concerto Conciso. Luisa
is a member of many chamber ensembles and recently performed
Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with the Dante Quartet. She has performed
Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio for the London Symphony Orchestra’s
Discovery Series.
Emmanuelle Dumas (cello)
 Born in Montauban, France, Emmanuelle Dumas began playing the
cello at the age of eleven. She was immediately accepted into the
Conservatoire National de Musique, and completed her studies at the
age of nineteen with a Gold Medal in Cello, Chamber Music, and
Analysis. Parallel to this course, she specialised her studies at
the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, with Genevieve Teulieres.
She joined the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1999, with
professor Raphael Sommer, and has recently completed the Masters
course, studying with Louise Hopkins. During this time, she has
participated in Masterclasses with Maud Tortelier, Arto Noras,
Caroline Palmer, John York, Raphael Walfisch, James Gibb, Etienne
Peclard, and Pierre Doumenge. For many years, Emmanuelle has been
performing and teaching on the Summer Music Academy in Pompignan,
and is a full time member of the Orchestre de la Cite D’Ingres.
Emmanuelle performs frequently with her duo partner Christopher
George throughout France and the UK. She has recorded duo repertoire
for Radio France, in the programme ‘Jeunes Interpretes’, and last
year performed in the Wigmore Hall for the concert ‘In Memory of
Paul Tortelier’. Recent concerts have included a tour of Southern
France with the Pompignan Quartet and several engagements with the
Rosina Trio.
Christopher George (piano)
 Born in Jersey in 1980, Christopher George completed his studies
at the Guildhall School of Music in 2004, with the tuition of
Professor Emeritus James Gibb and Caroline Palmer. During his time
at the Guildhall, he built up a wealth of experience performing
throughout the UK, and studying in Masterclasses with Peter Donohoe,
Boris Berezovsky, Angela Hewitt, the Florestan Piano Trio, and Leon
Fleisher, among others.
Over the years, his playing has been recognized through numerous
competition successes, including First Prize in the EYO Young
Soloists Competition (2003), Equal First Prize in the Marlow Open
Piano Concerto Competition (2004), Third Prize in the Watford
Festival Award (2004), and Semi-Finalist in the Guildhall Gold Medal
(2004). Christopher was also the 2003 recipient of the Worshipful
Company of Musicians’ Carnwath Scholarship. His playing has been
broadcast through numerous BBC Radio 3 recordings, and he has
performed in many of the greatest venues in the UK and abroad.
Christopher is a member of two established chamber ensembles, the
Rosina Trio (clarinet, cello, piano), and the Flanagan Trio (violin,
cello, piano), and performs frequently with the French cellist
Emmanuelle Dumas. A keen specialist in concerto repertoire, he has
performed concertos with many orchestras in the UK, and had a piano
concerto written for him recently by Owen Bourne, one of the leading
young composers in the country. The work is entitled Brine – A
Jersey Concerto.
Proposed Recital Programme
2006/7 Season
Beethoven
Clarinet Trio in B flat op. 11
or Clarinet Trio in E flat op. 38
Bruch
Eight Pieces for Clarinet Trio op. 83
(selection of any three or four)
Muczinsky
Fantasy Trio
INTERVAL
Brahms
Clarinet Trio op. 114
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