Volo Trio

Snaps from our Spring tour 2022:
The Old Schoolhouse, Lustleigh
St Nicholas Priory, Exeter
All Saints Church, Kenton
Ashburton Arts Centre, Ashburton
Creative Innovation Centre, Taunton
Flavel Theatre, Dartmouth

We were the opening concert at The Dart Music Festival this lunchtime! Spotlight News South West recorded us - so watch out for us between 6.30pm and 7pm on BBC One

Thank you for having us Ashburton Arts! Catch our last performance of Nightingales and Fairytales next Friday 6th at 2.30 at The Flavel Theatre in Dartmouth - before Claudia moves to Italy!!

We’re at Ashburton Arts today (Sunday 1st) at 1.30pm performing Nightingales and Fairytales! This is our penultimate gig of the tour, before our final one at the Dart Music Festival next Friday at 2.30, before Claudia moves to Italy!! Catch us while you can.
We’re throwing an extra premiere in this time! Another piece that Will Carnell wrote for us after hearing us perform his pieces at Lustleigh last month! ❤️

Thank you All Saints Church in Kenton for a lovely welcome this afternoon! We enjoyed performing our Nightingales and Fairytales in this beautiful setting. ❤️

Two performances coming up!
Kenton church today (Saturday) at 4pm
Ashburton Arts Centre at 1.30pm (Sunday 1st May)

There will be tickets on the door for both. ❤️🎶🦢🧚🏼‍♀️❤️🎶

We are at Ashburton Arts this Sunday at 1.30pm as part of the Tinners Moon festival!
Come one come all! ❤️ 🦢 🧚🏼‍♀️

Lovely Claudia! ❤️

We performed our Nightingales and Fairytales programme to a small but lovely audience at the Creative Innovation Centre in Taunton this lunchtime. It’s such a fab venue: art gallery, cafe, bar with a great acoustic and a baby grand.

We have three more performances left in our NIGHTINGALES AND FAIRYTALES tour:

Saturday 30th April, 4pm, Kenton Parish Church
Sunday 1st May, 1pm, Ashburton Arts Centre
Friday 6th May, 2.30pm, Flavel Centre, Dart Music Festival, Dartmouth

AND at the Creative Innovation Centre in TAUNTON…
There are three more Sunday lunchtime concerts in THE NEW SEASON SERIES.
May is DREAMING IN SOUND - flute and strings
June is MYTH AND MAGIC - mega flute fest: bass flute, alto flute, flute and piccolo
July is SONGS WITHOUT WORDS - flute and harp

Look at us standing in front of a massive projection of Rhys Hurd’s photo of us! 😁

Backstage at the Elizabethan townhouse with Volo Trio…

Wonderful to perform ‘Nightingales and Fairytales’ to a full house tonight at St Nicholas Priory. We get to do it again at the Creative Innovation Centre in Taunton in 14 hours time!

TONIGHT! The first concert in a series happening in Exeter, Ashburton and Taunton, inspired by this poem! Tickets on the door tonight at St Nicholas Priory - a beautiful Elizabethan townhouse!

New Season, by Wendy Cope

No coats today. Buds bulge on chestnut trees,
and on the doorstep of a big, old house
a young man stands and plays his flute.

I watch the silver notes fly up
and circle in blue sky above the traffic,
travelling where they will.

And suddenly this paving stone
midway between my front door and the bus stop
is a starting point.

From here I can go anywhere I choose.

We have a flurry of fantastical fairytale concerts coming up! All will have tickets available on the door, or you could book online through the venue's website:

Sat 23rd April, 7pm, St Nicholas Priory, Exeter
Sunday 24th April, 12 noon, Creative Innovation Centre, Taunton
Sat 30th April, 4pm, Kenton Parish Church
Sunday 1st May, 1.30pm, Ashburton Arts Centre
Friday 6th May, 2.30pm, Flavel Theatre, Dart Music Festival, Dartmouth

Volo Trio are playing at the Tinners Moon Festival! Woop Woop!
Sunday May 1st at lunchtime!

The Tinners Moon Festival programme is now available, as are all tickets.
Download PDF here: tinnersmoon.co.uk

We have an absolutely superb line up of music, drama, dance, comedy and film plus two days of vocal improv workshops with Briony Greenhill, a jazz workshop with Hugh Pascal and a dance workshop for 'all bodies' with two fabulous dancers.

All tickets now available at wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts – get booking now!

Tickets now on sale for Volo Trio at St Nicholas Priory, Exeter!
This is a fantastic venue - an Elizabethan townhouse hidden away in the middle of Exeter! The perfect venue for our fantastical programme of Nightingales and Fairytales.

The concert is at 7pm. Intentionally timed to make travelling by public transport possible.

Tickets here: https://www.nicholaspriory.com/events/new-season-series-april/

Soul food concert at an intimate venue in Lustleigh with Volo Trio. Thank you to Heather for being our generous host and thank you to the lovely listening audience. Volo Trio are back on the road and it feels good.

Our first concert of our tour is TONIGHT in LUSTLEIGH!
We are very excited!

SPRING TOUR 2022!

YAAAAAYYYY!
We're as excited as Kermit the Frog at the start of The Muppet Show!
VOLO TRIO are back!
Time to get on with all those gigs we had planned after our debut concert at Sidholme back in January 2020!

100 likes! Thank you, gracias, grazie, merci, danke, спаси́бо! ❤️

Volo Trio

Here's our new website!

volotrio.weebly.com Volo Trio are Peruvian-Italian coloratura soprano Claudia Alvarez Calderon, experienced and creative flautist Ruth Molins and award-winning pianist Alex Wilson . The word ‘volo’ means...

We have gigs coming up soon at music festivals and concert venues around Devon... watch this space to find out more

A bit about Alex...
Alex Wilson is a versatile pianist with interests ranging from cutting edge new music to fascinating repertoire by forgotten composers. Alex is a former British Contemporary Piano Competition finalist, Park Lane Group Young Artist and performer of new music across Britain and Europe as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. His self-curated tour of music by the lost composers of World War One has achieved large audiences and received critical praise. Alex’s debut solo CD – a recording of works by WW1 composer F.S.Kelly – is due for release in spring 2020. Alex believes strongly in taking professional, ambitious music projects out of the big cities and loves working with musicians from across the South West. Alex teaches piano at Colyton Grammar School.
(Photo by Julie Mullen)

A bit about Ruth...
Flautist Ruth Molins is much in demand as a freelance musician. She performed as a soloist with Exeter Symphony Orchestra in 2012 (Rutter, Suite Antique) and again in 2015 (Mozart, Concerto for Flute and Harp). She has been featured on Phonic FM, Soundart Radio, BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio 3. She is a founding member of Flute Cake.
In 2017, her composition, ‘Make Room’ was performed at Waterstones, The Glorious Art House and Studio 36 in Exeter. ‘Make Room’ will be performed again at Killerton House (National Trust) on July 4th 2020 in collaboration with the Devon Music Education Hub.
Ruth is a passionate music educator and teaches flute within three schools (Exeter School; St Peter’s School; The Woodroffe School) and is the Musical Director of Exeter Flutes.
(Photo by Julie Mullen)

A bit about Claudia...
Based on Dartmoor, Peruvian-Italian coloratura soprano Claudia Alvarez Calderon trained in Lima, Rome, Pesaro and New York and regularly performs in the UK, Italy and her native Lima as a recitalist and opera soloist. She has performed in venues such as Rome Opera House, St Anna in Vatican City, St George in Milan and regularly tours with the Italian opera company “Gli Amici di Fritz”.
Claudia also maintains an active singing schedule in Devon and collaborates with local musicians. She has sung live at BBC Radio Devon, for Dart Music Festival and toured village halls with "Diva on your Doorstep", an initiative to make opera accessible by bringing it to smaller communities.

Photo by Rhys Hurd

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