A welcome return to Sandbach for Peter Moore, International trombone virtuoso. Performing a programme that includes music for trombone, violin and piano
Peter Moore with Greta Mutlu (violin) and Michael McHale (piano)
Programme
6:30pm Doors open
7:00: Spotlight Concert
Music performed by talented young people from Sandbach
7:30 Intermission
Art Exhibition by Janet Beardmore from Sandbach Art Club, Refreshments
8:00 Main Concert
Bach – Prelude from 2nd Cello Suite
Beethoven – Horn Sonata
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Allegro moderato
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Poco Adagio, quasi Andante
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Rondo. Allegro moderato (F major).
Brahms – Intermezzo No.2 arr. for Violin and Piano
Brahms – AlbumBlatt
Brahms – Horn Trio
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Andante
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Scherzo
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Adagio Mesto
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Finale
Born in Belfast and brought up in Greater Manchester, Peter Moore was a product of the world-renowned Brass Band culture in the North of England. He came to international attention in 2008 when he became the youngest ever winner of BBC Young Musician, kickstarting a solo career which continues to thrive.
One of the key exponents of his instrument, Moore has performed concertos with leading orchestras including the BBC Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and has given recitals at venues including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein. He has collaborated with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Vasily Petrenko, Gianandrea Noseda, and John Wilson.
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 joined the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for two performances of this work in 2024. Last season he gave the European Premiere of Joe Chindamo’s “Ligeia” alongside the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
Moore has released multiple albums to critical acclaim – “Life Force” in 2018 and recently “SHIFT” with Tredegar Brass Band and Chandos. In 2025 he featured on “BEYOND” with his rendition of Jonathan Dove’s “Stargazer” alongside BBCSSO.
Formerly the Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra, Moore departed after 10 years to focus on putting the trombone in the spotlight. He is a Getzen International Artist.
The 2025/26 season includes performances with the CBSO, BBC Philharmonic, BBCNOW and features a brand new concerto by Deborah Pritchard and the European premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Concerto.
Belfast-born Michael McHale has established himself as one of Ireland’s leading pianists, with a busy international career as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. He has given notable performances at the Tanglewood, BBC Proms and Tokyo Spring Festivals, the Barbican and Southbank Centres, London, Berlin Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Lincoln and Kennedy Centers, Boston Symphony Hall and regularly at Wigmore Hall, London as a founding member of the Wigmore Soloists. He has performed as a soloist with the Hallé, Minnesota Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia and all five of the major Irish orchestras.
His début solo album, The Irish Piano, was released in 2012 and selected as ‘CD of the Week’ by the critic Norman Lebrecht. More recent recordings include solo piano music by Schubert and Beethoven on Ergodos, an album of Clarinet Trios on BIS, and the début album of the McGill/McHale Trio, Portraits, featuring special narrations by Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali. For Chandos he has recorded eight albums with clarinetist Michael Collins, the Strauss Burleske with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Rodney Bennett’s Piano Concerto with conductor John Wilson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and most recently a duo album of Ruth Gipps oboe music with Juliana Koch.
Michael studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was recently appointed as an Associate (ARAM). He teaches piano at the MTU Cork School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. As a chamber musician he has collaborated regularly with many artists and ensembles
including Sir James Galway, Isabelle van Keulen, Barry Douglas, Patricia Rozario, Dame Felicity Lott, the Vogler, Talich, Navarra and Piatti quartets, Crash Ensemble, Camerata Pacifica and The Vanbrugh.
Bulgarian violinist Greta Mutlu is currently based in London where she enjoys a busy and diverse career.
Her love of chamber music has led to concerts at the Wigmore Hall and the Elgar Room in London, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and her native Bulgaria’s National Palace of Culture. She has taken part in Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Chamber Studio at Kings Place, Wye Valley Chamber Music, Le Domaine Forget Chamber Music Sessions, and The St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University.
In demand as an orchestral musician, Greta has toured internationally with the London Symphony Orchestra, Aurora, Scottish Ensemble, the English Chamber Orchestra, and Sinfonia of London, among others.
She regularly contributes to film soundtrack recordings in London’s iconic studios and holds a full-time position in the West End production of award-winning musical, Hamilton.
A former pupil of renowned American pedagogues Andrés Cárdenes and Paul Kantor, Greta holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Glenn Gould School in Toronto.
