*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****February 9, 2011*** **

Contact:Suzanne Grady

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  The electrifying Fidelio Trio performs at New Paltz

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*NEW PALTZ***-- The Davenport Residency Program presents the 
electrifying Fidelio Trio in concert, February 22 at 8:00 p.m. in 
McKenna Theatre on the campus of the State University of New York at New 
Paltz.Before the concert, at 6:30 p.m. in the same theatre, the trio 
will give a pre-concert performance and discussion. Both concert and 
discussion are free and open to all.

A critique from/The Journal of Music in Ireland (/March/April 2008) 
states, "...compelling listening, not least in performances as 
dramatically bold and incisively detailed as on offer here from a 
Fidelio Trio on lucid and keenly expressive form."

The Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan, violin, Robin Michael, cello and Mary 
Dullea, piano) perform extremely diverse repertoire internationally. 
Their concert at New Paltz includes Donnacha Dennehy's /Bulb/; Laura 
Kaminsky's /Vukovar Trio/, Chick Corea's /Addendum/, and Maurice Ravel's 
Piano Trio.

The Trio's broadcasts include regular appearances on BBC Radio 3 as well 
as RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC and Radio New Zealand. In 2010, they were featured 
in a documentary on Sky Arts with broadcaster Katie Derham entitled 
/First Love/. Since their South Bank debut they have appeared at Wigmore 
Hall, Kings Place and Royal Opera House, London, festivals including 
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Brighton Festival and Fuse 
Leeds, West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens and National Concert 
Hall, Dublin, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Casa da Musica (Porto), 
Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi and 
Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice (Italy).

CD releases include /Bulb/ on NMC featuring trios by Kevin Volans, 
Donnacha Dennehy, Deirdre Gribbin and Ed Bennett, /Metamorphoses/, the 
chamber music of Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrimsson, on Delphian 
Records, /Bartlebooth/, the music of Joe Cutler, on NMC and most 
recently, /The Piano Tuner/ for Delphian Records (premiere recordings of 
Scottish trios by Judith Weir, Nigel Osborne and Sally Beamish). 
Forthcoming are /From Vienna/ (Schoenberg, Korngold and Zemlinsky) for 
Naxos, the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records, a Piers 
Hellawell portrait disc and a Robert Keeley portrait disc for NMC.

2011 highlights include their US debut tour with appearances at New 
York's Symphony Space and MIT, Boston, a tour of South Africa and 
Botswana, a Moving on Music tour of Ireland, two Scottish tours, 
multiple UK appearances as well as 2 CD releases.

The Davenport Residency program was established to honor the memory of 
Kenneth and Mary "Whitt" Davenport, great friends and generous 
philanthropists for the arts at the State University of New York at New 
Paltz and throughout the Hudson Valley region.Residencies are designed 
to connect fine young performing ensembles from today's new music world 
with New Paltz students and the community.The residency is administered 
through the Department of Music.

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/Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, ninety minutes from 
metropolitan New York City, the //State University of New York at New 
Paltz/ /is a highly selective college of about 
8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

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/One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz 
delivers an extraordinary number of majors in //Business/ 
/, //Liberal Arts & Sciences/ 
/, //Engineering/ 
/, //Fine & Performing Arts/ 
/and //Education/ 
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/New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and 
independent minded people from around the world create close personal 
links with real scholars and artists who love to teach./