The Fidelio Trio consist of Darragh Morgan (violin), Robin Michael (cello) and Mary Dullea (piano)

The …virtuosic Fidelio Trio… (as described in the Sunday Times) perform extremely diverse repertoire internationally and features London-based Irish musicians Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) and Scottish cellist Robin Michael.  Broadcasts include regular appearances on RTÉ Lyric FM, BBC Radio 3, WNYC, Radio New Zealand and in 2010 they were featured in a Sky Arts documentary First Love, with broadcaster Katie Derham.

Since their South Bank debut they have appeared at Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Purcell Room and Royal Opera House, London, festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Brighton, Petworth and Fuse Leeds, West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens and National Concert Hall, Dublin, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Casa da Musica (Porto), Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi and Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice (Italy). They are regularly invited to appear at the UK’s leading venues; Blackheath Halls, London Chamber Music Society, City Music Society, Bromsgrove Concerts and Sound Scotland.  2011 performances have included appearances at Symphony Space, New York City, MIT Boston, Davenport Artists in Residence at SUNY (State University of New York), University of Illinois, a Moving on Music tour of Northern Ireland broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and an extensive tour of South Africa.

The Fidelio Trio’s discography is rapidly increasing and represents important additions to the piano trio repertoire as well as works by Irish composers.  CD releases include Bulb (Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy, Deirdre Gribbin and Ed Bennett), My Broken Machines (Ed Bennett) and Bartlebooth (Joe Cutler) all on NMC, Metamorphoses (Haflidi Hallgrimsson) and The Piano Tuner (Sally Beamish, Nigel Osborne and Judith Weir) for Delphian Records and Rob Keeley Chamber Music on Convivium.  Forthcoming are the first instalment of From Vienna (Korngold and Schoenberg) for Naxos, the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records and portrait discs of Piers Hellawell for Delphian Records, Gerald Barry for Mode Records and Philip Hammond for Lorelt Recordings.

They are constantly commissioning new works and the range of leading international composers that The Fidelio Trio are closely associated with includes Toshio Hosokawa, Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud and Michael Nyman. The trio have premiered music by many of Ireland’s leading composers: Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Raymond Deane, Deirdre Gribbin, Stephen Gardner, Micheál Ó Suilleabháin and Ian Wilson.  They have performed these composers throughout Europe, the USA, South Africa and China.  They have given masterclasses at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, Stellenbosch Conservatorium, WITS Johannesburg and been in residence at the AIC Composition Summer School.

Outstanding artists the trio have collaborated with include Patricia Rozario (soprano), Alexander McCall Smith (writer), Lore Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Jones (viola) and Roger Heaton (clarinet). They are supported by PRS for Music Foundation, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.

Forthcoming in 2012/13 include their Schumann + series at The Forge, Camden Town, London, concerts at St. John’s Smith Square, London, the premiere of Philip Hammond’s new work in memoriam of the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic at St Anne’s Cathedral Belfast, a further tour of South Africa featuring prestigious appearances including Johannesburg Music Society, return invitations to USA, a multimedia performance at The City of London Festival and further CD recordings for Naxos.