Name: Fanny Fheodoroff and Dominic Degavino | "A Night in Vienna"
Start: 2026-03-05T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-05T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Holywell Music Room

Fanny Fheodoroff and Dominic Degavino | "A Night in Vienna"

Austrian violinist Fanny Fheodoroff and British pianist Dominic Degavino perform works by Vienna-associated composers, spanning 250 years.
About this Event

Viennese-born violinist Fanny Fheodoroff studied at Hamburg's Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music in London before completing her Master of Music degree in 2021 at the Juilliard School, New York. In 2022 Fanny joined the all-female French piano trio Sōra, based in Paris, where they hold a residency at the Fondation Singer-Polignac. Performances with the Yehudi Menuhin charity 'Live Music Now' have taken her to prisons, schools, psychiatric clinics, homeless and refugee centres. Fanny plays a violin by Ferdinandus Gagliano (1769) generously loaned by a private sponsor.

British pianist Dominic Degavino studied at Chethams School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, before completing his studies at the Guildhall. The Mithras Trio, founded with two fellow students at the Guildhall, won the prestigious Trondheim Chamber Music Competition in 2019. The trio was subsequently selected for the BBC's New Generation Artists scheme for the 2021–23 seasons. Dominic now has a full performing schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and jazz player.

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) – Violin Sonata in D Major, K. 306

Friedrich Cerha (1926 – 2023) – Capriccio for violin and piano

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957) – Much Ado About Nothing Suite, Op. 11

Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949) – Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18

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The music the artists have chosen for tonight's recital has one thing in common, the composers are all associated with Vienna over a span of 250 years. The highlight of the evening will be the spectacular Richard Strauss violin sonata, rarely played because it is so demanding of both the violinist and the pianist. It was composed when Strauss had just met the love of his life, the soprano Pauline de Ahna, and it radiates romantic fervour with dramatic melodies embracing a wide range of emotions.