Trowell: Cello Sonata

The music of Arnold Trowell is often associated with the UK, but not many people realise that Trowell was a Kiwi and one of New Zealand's first professional composers - a contemporary of Alfred Hill and companion of Katherine Mansfield. Something of a prodigy he became Professor of Cello at London’s Guildhall and Royal College of Music in the early 1900's and much of his compositional output includes this instrument.

The Cello Sonata in F, written in 1915, was never published and probably never publicly performed and so this concert from Martin Griffiths (cello) and Katherine Austin (piano) will be a highly belated premiere of the work.