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Trio Lavolta was formed in 1995 and made it's debut at Blackheath Concert Halls with a programme that included a new work commissioned for the occasion. Since then the trio has given recitals at many of the City of London churches and music clubs throughout the country. The trio aims to offer innovative programmes of lesser known and contemporary works alongside a traditional repertoire.

Sally Mays (piano) won the Clarke Scholarship in Australia and came to study at the Royal College of Music in London, where she won all the prizes open to pianists, including the Chappell Gold Medal. She has played and broadcast all over the United Kingdom, the Continent, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. She is a soloist and chamber musician of great experience and is a member of the Alexandra, Sounds Positive and Hermes ensembles. She is the editor of Australian Piano Music, a seven-volume series of graded contemporary piano music, published by Currency Press of Sydney, that is being hailed as the "Australian Microcosmos". She teaches at Goldsmith's College and has also lectured at Grinnell-in-London.

 

Joyce Fraser (violin) was born in Leicestershire where she began her musical training as a member of Leicestershire Schools' Symphony Orchestra. After gaining a degree in German at the University of Reading, she went to study the violin with Konrad von der Goltz at the Wuerzburg Konservatorium in Germany, before returning to London to continue her studies with Ralph Holmes. As a freelance violinist she has worked with many of the major symphony and ballet orchestras in London, including the Philharmonia who whom she toured widely in Europe and the USA. She also works regularly with the BBC National Orchestra. She has performed in chamber music recitals at such diverse venues as the Purcell Room, Lambeth Palace and the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

 

Felix Buser (cello) was born in Basle in Switzerland. He studied the cello at the Basle Konservatorium with Reine Flachot and Thomas Demenga and was awarded a specialist performer's diploma. Whilst a student he took part in masterclasses in France and Switzerland, and in 1981 was invited to participate in special workshops at the Montelpulciano Festival organised by Hans Werner Henze. Felix's professional career has included work with the Basle Sinfonietta, the Schweizer Streichorchester and the Aargauer Symphonieorchester in Switzerland, as well as the chamber orchestra "La Follia" in France. He was a member of both a string quartet and a piano trio in Basle which gave regular recitals throughout Switzerland. In 1990 he married a British violinist and is now resident in the UK where he follows a freelance career divided between teaching and performing with the emphasis on chamber music.