Music for Holocaust Memorial Day

Free entry - registration is required

Programme:

Hans Krása, Tanec
Zikmund Schul), Chassidic Dances
Gideon Klein, String Trio
Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin, To the Memory of Our Dead Children
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2

Amid the ravages of the Holocaust, in ghettos and camps across occupied Europe, victims responded to the catastrophe that was engulfing them through music.
 
This year, Magdalen College is marking Holocaust Memorial Day with a concert of music written by composers who were murdered by the Nazis, as well as a piece that commemorates the victims.
 
The concert will take place in Magdalen’s Grove Theatre, and will be introduced by Professor Shirli Gilbert, author of Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps. To perform the music, we are thrilled to welcome the Leonore Piano Trio, who are described by The Strad as combining ‘soaring potency’ with ‘impassioned eloquence’. The Leonore Trio consists of Benjamin Nabarro on violin, Gemma Rosefield on cello, and Tim Horton on piano – all highly celebrated artists. They will be joined by Rachel Roberts on viola.