‘Memorably evoked by the Fidelio Trio here, whose spacious, deeply calm reading of this often very beautiful score is utterly bewitching.’
~ International Record Review
The Fidelio Trio
The …virtuosic Fidelio Trio… (Sunday Times) are Darragh Morgan, violin, Tim Gill, cello and Mary Dullea, piano. Shortlisted for a 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award and awarded Gramophone Album of the Year, they broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WQXR, ABC and have been featured on a Sky Arts documentary.
Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, Fidelio Trio have regularly appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, at festivals including Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus, Three Choirs, Newbury Spring, Proms at St Jude’s and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. In Ireland they regularly perform at National Concert Hall, Dublin, and internationally at Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Hong Kong Chamber Music Society, Singapore, Bangkok, Porto, Paris, Venice, Florence, Johannesburg, Harare, New York City, San Francisco and Boston. Recent appearances include Dark Music Days Iceland, an extensive USA tour including National Sawdust Brooklyn, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, ‘Music on the Edge’ Pittsburgh, Cayman International Arts Festival, Les Jardins Musicaux Neuchatel as well as regular European concert and festival performances. 2026-27 season sees a further USA tour, a celebrity recital at Wuxi Symphony Hall, China, Bang on a Can Long Play Festival, Presteigne Festival and an album release of recent Fidelio Trio commissions by Anna Clyne, Richard Causton (shortlisted for 2026 RPS chamber ensemble composition), and David Fennessy for NMC.
'...delicacy and flow are the watchwords across the album, as you hear again in the Fauré Trio, whose first movement’s expertly moulded super-long lines are a study in sustained tension....one to savour' Gramophone
Their extensive discography includes a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice and Critics’ Choice 2022 of Chamber Music by E J Moeran, a composer with whom they are closely associated and the release of premiere recordings on Mode Records of music by Gerald Barry. Other significant releases include 2 French albums of Ravel and Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Chausson and Satie on Resonus Classics; Philip Glass Head On & Pendulum on Orange Mountain; Korngold and Schoenberg (Verklärte Nacht arr. Steuermann) for Naxos; the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records; multiple releases on NMC, Delphian Records; portrait CDs of composers such as Xiaogang Ye, Piers Hellawell and Michael Zev Gordon. Their previous release of French Piano Trios for Resonus was also a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice.
The Fidelio Trio have given masterclasses at Peabody Conservatory, Curtis Institute, NYU, Central Conservatory Beijing, and Stellenbosch Conservatorium South Africa. They have been artists-in-residence at University of Iowa, St. Patrick’s College Dublin City University, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the State University of New York, SUNY and Tufts University, Boston.
Composers that the Trio have premiered music by include Anna Clyne, Toshio Hosokawa, Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud, Michael Nyman, Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Joe Cutler, Ann Cleare, Judith Weir, Piers Hellawell, David Fennessy, Kevin Volans. Gavin Higgins, Linda Buckley, Tom Coult, John Harbison, Sam Perkin, Sebastian Adams, Claudia Molitor, Shirley Thompson, Richard Baker, Robert Saxton, Simon Bainbridge and Alexander Goehr.
Artists the Fidelio Trio have performed with include Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Michael Collins and Julian Bliss (clarinet), Richard Watkins (horn), Rachel Roberts (viola), author Alexander McCall Smith, T.S. Eliot prizewinning poet Sinéad Morrissey and actor Adrian Dunbar. They have developed work in collaboration with Rambert Dance Company and feature in the film of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles with Yorke Dance Project.
They often perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto including recently with KZN Philharmonic Orchestra South Africa, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and at the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford and are Artistic Directors of their annual Winter Chamber Music Festival at Belvedere House, Dublin City University.
