The Stoller Hall

Trombonist Peter Moore is joined by mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley and pianist Michael McHale to perform their own arrangement of music by Schumann, Schubert and more, followed by a set of lighter works by Novello, Kurt Weil, and Manning Sherwin.

Previously advertised as the Peter Moore Trio.

The Nexora Trio—Anna Huntley, Peter Moore, and Michael McHale—unites three celebrated musicians renowned for their artistry and versatility across the world’s leading stages. Bonded over their shared artistic vision and admiration of each other’s work, they were motivated by the rich repertoire for mixed ensemble and diverse arrangements by various composers and set out to uncover and present hidden gems. Drawing inspiration from Liszt’s Liebeslied, a piano transcription
of Schumann’s song Widmung, they have crafted their program, My Love is Mine, to explore themes of love, and loss of love, in a diverse array of musical styles and pieces

Together, The Nexora Trio exemplifies innovation and excellence in classical music, blending their individual brilliance into a dynamic, genre-defying ensemble.

Peter Moore

Peter Moore, a world-renowned trombonist, gained international attention at age 12 when he became the youngest winner of BBC Young Musician in 2008. Born in Belfast and raised in Greater Manchester, his early involvement in the Brass Band culture in Northern England was crucial to his rapid development. Moore has performed concertos with leading orchestras including the BBC Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and given recitals at venues including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein. He has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Vasily Petrenko and John Wilson. From 2015 to 2017, he was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

His repertoire spans from early Baroque to contemporary works. A proponent of new music, Moore has premiered works by Francisco Coll, Roxanna Panufnik, and Dani Howard. He gave the UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Trombone Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and the European premiere of Joe Chindamo’s “Ligeia” with the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. Moore’s debut album, “Life Force,” was released in 2018, earning critical acclaim and he is due to release an album with Chandos Records and the award winning Tredegar Brass Band in 2025. Formerly the Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra, Moore departed after 10 years to focus on his solo career. He is currently a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has given masterclasses globally, including the Juilliard School and Paris Conservatoire. Peter Moore is a Getzen International Artist, performing on the Getzen 4147IB.

Anna Huntley

Described by The Guardian as a ‘fast-rising British talent’ and featured as a ‘Rising Star’ in BBC Music Magazine, Anna Huntley was a recipient of the Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Vocal Fellowship in 2011, selected by the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2012, and was a prize winner at the !Das Lied’ Competition in Berlin and the London Handel Singing Competition. She was subsequently elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the music profession to date.

An outstanding recitalist, Anna appears regularly at major concert halls and festivals throughout the UK and Europe including Wigmore Hall, Opéra de Lille, Musikverein Vienna, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, and Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Leeds Lieder and the Oxford Lieder Festivals and the Israeli Schubertiade with pianists Graham Johnson, Julius Drake, Simon Lepper, Joseph Middleton and James Baillieu. Anna is also a passionate chamber musician working closely with chamber groups including Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg and the Hebrides Ensemble and the Berkley Ensemble in the UK, as well as having duos with guitarist, Jens Franke and trombonist, Peter Moore. She is also a regular performer at the North Yorkshire Moors Chamber Music Festival, most recently recording a CD of Ravel vocal chamber works there for Ayriel Music.

Other highlights of recent seasons have included the European premiere of Walter Arlen’s The Song of Songs with the Wiener Symphoniker which was featured on Netflix and in Austrian cinemas; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Alexander Vedernikov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with Sir András Schiff; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the City of London Sinfonia; Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo for the London Handel Festival and Bach Cantatas with Georg Nigl and Luca Pianca at Wiener Konzerthaus, as well as a variety of opera roles for Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Israel Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and the Cambridge Handel Opera Group.

Michael McHale

Belfast-born Michael McHale has established himself as one of Ireland’s leading pianists and has developed a busy international career as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician.
He has performed and recorded as a soloist with the Minnesota and Hallé Orchestras, the Moscow, Bournemouth, Jacksonville, Fort Smith, BBC and London Symphony Orchestras, City of London Sinfonia, London Mozart Players and all five of the major Irish orchestras. He has performed at the Tanglewood, BBC Proms and Tokyo Spring Festivals Barbican, Cadogan Hall and Southbank Centre, London, Berlin Konzerthaus, Lincoln Center, New York, Symphony Hall, Boston, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and regular appearances at Wigmore Hall, London as a founding member of the Wigmore Soloists.

Michael’s début solo album The Irish Piano was released in 2012 by RTÉ lyric fm and selected as ‘CD of the Week’ by the critic Norman Lebrecht. More recent solo releases include Schubert: Four Impromptus on Ergodos, Irish Piano Concertos on RTÉ lyric fm, Miniatures and Modulations on Grand Piano and the Strauss ‘Burleske’ on Chandos. His discography of over thirty albums includes releases on Delos, Nimbus Alliance, Champs Hill, and eight duo recital albums on Chandos with clarinettist Michael Collins. The début album of the McGill/McHale Trio Portraits on Cedille featuring special narrations by Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali was released in 2017 and immediately entered the Top 25 US Billboard Classical Chart. Recent releases include a recording of Richard Rodney Bennett’s Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Wilson for Chandos and Clarinet Trios for BIS. A commitment to new music has seen Michael give first performances and recordings of music by composers including Valentin Silvestrov, Valerie Coleman, John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Rogerson, Abbie Betinis, Bill Whelan, Siobhán Cleary, Edward Gregson, Jennifer Walshe, Cliff Eidelman, Luke Bedford and Linda Buckley, as well as concerto world premières by Irish composers Garrett Sholdice (with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Irish Chamber Orchestra) and Philip Hammond (with Nicholas Collon and the Ulster Orchestra for BBC Radio 3).

Winner of the Terence Judd/Hallé Award in 2009, Michael was also awarded the Brennan and Field Prizes at the 2006 AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, the 2005 Camerata Ireland/Accenture Award, and in 2016 a Major Individual Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music, and his teachers and mentors include John O’Conor, Réamonn Keary, Christopher Elton, Ronan O’Hora and Barry Douglas.

In 2017 Michael was invited to become a Patron of the Ulster Youth Orchestra, and in 2018 he was appointed lecturer in piano for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the MTU Cork School of Music in Ireland in addition to which he regularly gives masterclasses and adjudicates competitions in the USA, Ireland and the UK. In 2023 he was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

About the Concert

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