Piano Trio
(painting by Greg Tricker)
excerpt
Piano Trio for Anne Frank, 'Het Achterhuis' (The Secret Annexe), was composed in response to the diary of Anne Frank and also to a series of batiks paintings by the exceptional artist Greg Tricker.
I was deeply affected by Anne's suffering and fuelled by stories from my father, who was a Ukrainian taken as forced labour by the Nazis, I set about expressing my feelings via a Piano Trio.
Duration
36 minutes in six movements
Scoring
piano, cello and violin
1st performance
12th June (Anne Frank Day) 2002, Pitville Pump Room, Cheltenham, performed by the Decio Trio -
- Abigail Smith - violin
- Clare Spencer-Smith - cello
- Colin Decio - piano