Divertimento Piano Trio
Mary Eade
Violin
Mary Eade studied the violin with Yehudi Menuhin and Frederick Grinke at the Yehudi Menuhin School, during which time she participated in master classes by Nadia Boulanger, Kodaly and Ravi Shankar.
Student life took her to Freiburg in Germany where she studied with Wolfgang Marschner, later returning to London and the Royal College of Music. She gave her Wigmore Hall debut in 1975 and has played many concertos notably with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, Tallis Chamber Orchestra, Ten Tors Orchestra and Taunton Sinfonietta. She has also guest lead for London Festival Orchestra and English National Opera.
Now living in Devon Mary is the Director of Taunton Sinfonietta with whom she has recently played the Beethoven Violin Concerto. This year also saw the first performance of Ash Madni’s Violin Concerto in Plymouth with the Ten Tors Orchestra. Her association with Divertimento has involved her in many concerts ranging from Piano Trios to Octets to Chamber Orchestral concerts.
She continued her musical training at Dartington College of Arts with Michael Evans, cellist of the Dartington String Quartet. He became her husband and she spent many years bringing up their five children before resuming a busy career as a freelance musician, music lecturer, manager of several chamber ensembles and orchestras, and director of Divertimento Entertainments.
She is co-principal cello with the Ten Tors Orchestra. As a chamber music player, she has performed with pianists Margaret Lynn & John Bryden, flautist Judith Hall, clarinettist Colin Parr, bassoonist Martin Gatt, violinists Mary Eade & Malcolm Latchem.
Vicky Evans
Cello
Vicky’s early cello studies were at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with Antonia Butler and later at The Central Tutorial School for Young Musicians in London (the predecessor of the Purcell School).
She continued her musical training at Dartington College of Arts with Michael Evans, cellist of the Dartington String Quartet. He became her husband and she spent many years bringing up their five children before resuming a busy career as a freelance musician, music lecturer, manager of several chamber ensembles and orchestras, and director of Divertimento Entertainments.
She is co-principal cello with the Ten Tors Orchestra. As a chamber music player, she has performed with pianists Margaret Lynn & John Bryden, flautist Judith Hall, clarinettist Colin Parr, bassoonist Martin Gatt, violinists Mary Eade & Malcolm Latchem.
Margaret Lynn
Piano
Margaret enjoys a wide-ranging musical career as performer, lecturer, music educator, radio broadcaster and music editor. As soloist, piano duo and chamber ensemble player, Margaret performs extensively in the UK, Hong Kong and Macau. She shares a long-standing partnership with renowned bassoonist Martin Gatt and together with oboist Jane Finch, has formed the Lynn Trio. Margaret’s recordings of music by Schumann, Brahms with Martin, and the chamber music of English composer Madeleine Dring have received critical acclaim.
She has edited the works of Portuguese composer Aureo Castro, and has recorded all of his piano music. Margaret is also a specialist in aural training and has conducted many workshops for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and Radio-Television Hong Kong.
She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, studying the piano under Kendall Taylor, Hubert Dawkes and Stephen Savage, and the harpsichord with Ruth Dyson. She also holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Surrey and a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Bristol. She was the Associate Dean and Director of Studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts before taking up her present post as Academic Consultant.