Daniel has already performed widely in Australia, Europe and Russia. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra.Recent engagements in the UK have included concerts at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Fairfield Halls, St. George’s Bristol and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and appearances with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Haverhill Sinfonia and London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Engagements this season include recitals at Wigmore and Bridgewater Halls, appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican and Cadogan Hall; a performance of Scriabin’s Prometheus with the Jenaer Philharmonie in Germany and Bartok’s Concerto No.3 with the Victoria Orchestra in Melbourne. Since 2006 Daniel has performed regularly with tenor Andrew Goodwin, appearing at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. During his studies Daniel won numerous awards including 3rd Prizes at the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, the 2001 Tbilisi International Piano Competition and the 2000 Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam Competition in Poland. In 2007 he won the piano section of the Royal Overseas League Competition. Daniel is grateful for support from the Australian Music Foundation, Ars Musica Australis, the Countess of Munster Trust, Myra Hess Trust, Hattori Foundation and the Tait Memorial Trust.

Programme

BEETHOVEN Rondo in G major, Op.51 No.2

PROKOFIEV Sonata No.8, Op.84
- Andante dolce
- Andante sognando
- Vivace

Interval

CHOPIN Polonaise-Fantasie, Op.61

CHOPIN 3 Etudes
- Op.10 No.10
- Op.25 Nos.2 & 5

CHOPIN 2 Nocturnes, Op.62

CHOPIN Scherzo No.4 Op.54

Manja Ristic (violin) was born in Belgrade in 1979. She graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy as a violinist and then gained her postgraduate diploma at the Royal College of Music in London. Manja is an active member of several ensembles, ranging from this classical trio and an international jazz quintet to the experimental electro-acoustic trio ERUPTION. As a solo and chamber musician Manja has performed in the UK, France, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and all over Serbia. Apart from being a professional violin player she is an electronic music producer, short story writer and a poet. Her first collection of poetry is published this month. In 2004 she was Founder of the Association of Multimedia Artists AUROPOLIS in Belgrade, which produces a wide range of multimedia projects, performances and workshops. One of the many projects initiated by the association (together with creative studio Gallery 12+ and OZONE multimedia Gallery in Belgrade) was the B-Link Festival of New
Communications, an experimental project that presented web streaming capacities as a tool for overcoming geographical distance in live performance. As an outcome of this festival Manja started Poetry Aleatorics - international poetry readings in interaction with improvisational music. In the 2007, together with Cultural Front, Manja started the Forum Belgrade – a partner of the ‘A Soul for Europe’ Initiative in Berlin. She is chairman of the executive board of its Forum Belgrade Conference, to be held in October.

Ivana Grahovac (cello) was born in 1977 and studied at the Belgrade Music academy before postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London, where she was taught by Leonid Gorokhov, and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where she gained her Masters. Away from the Balkans, she has performed in solo and chamber concerts in Britain, France, Finland, Italy, Denmark, Austria and Hungary. She forms, with Manja Ristic, the experimental Duo Eruption, working in varied acoustic and electronic media as a composer and performer. She also writes for the theatre and film, and is Vice-President of AUROPOLIS (see above).

Irina Decermic (piano) began her musical studies at the Josip Slavenski Music School,
Belgrade, at the age of nine and within three years won a first prize at the national piano
competition of former Yugoslavia. At the age of fifteen she moved to London where she continued her studies at the Purcell School of Music winning a scholarship. She completed her academic studies at the Guildhall School of Music, working with Paul Berkowitz, and Irina Zaritzkaya at the Royal College of Music. Her London debut took place at St. John's Smith Square, and she
continues to perform in major concert halls throughout Europe, as well as Japan, Argentina (Teatro
Colon) and Russia. In 1991 she moved to Paris where she began composing music for film and theatre, published by Virgin. She performs, too, in Thêatre du Bouffes Du Nord, Opera Comique, Auditorium du Louvre, and has recorded Mozart solo works for Ocean. Recently Irina has written a play for theatre based on life and work of Robert Schumann. The play was performed in one of the major theatres in Belgrade(Atelje 212) with her in the role of Clara Schumann. Her
performance received a high critical acclaim, and was performed also in Thêatre Châtelet (Paris).

Haydn Piano Trio No.20 (Hb XV 22)
in E flat major
Allegro Moderato
Presto assai

Bozidar Obradinovic Station (world premiere)

Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op.67
Andante
Allegro non troppo
Largo
Allegretto

Arion
Manja Ristic (violin)
Ivana Grahovac (cello)
Irina Decermic (piano)