The trio plays original world music laced with the flavours of Russia and the Balkans on an exotic combination of instruments - cimbalom (Russian hammer dulcimer with 78 strings), cello, domra (Russian mandolin) and guitar.
Their concert on Saturday 2 February will commence at 3pm and kick off the 2013 Echo Music Series – a long running series featuring an array of unique and different performing artists in concert throughout the year.
Members of the Volatinsky Trio include:
Lucy Voronov from Minsk is one of the great players of cimbalom having won major folk instrument competitions in Russia and the former USSR.
Anatoli Torjinski from Odessa is an ARIA-award winning musician, renowned for his brilliant jazz/world-style cello playing and improvisations in groups including Double T, Monsieur Camembert and the Eddie Bronson Trio.
Stephen Lalor is Kiev-trained in Russian domra and guitar. When he is not playing with world music groups based in Sydney, Stephen works with Australian and overseas symphony orchestras as a mandolin specialist, appearing at major festivals as a mandolin/domra soloist. He has performed and/or recorded with artists including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bryn Terfel, Andy Irvine, Shen Yang, Taraf de Haidouks and The Stiff Gins.
Volatinsky Trio have played at some of Australia’s major World-Music Festivals, notably; The National Folk Festival and Fairbridge Festival (“a blistering set” – 2011 Fairbridge Program), plus Tanks (Cairns), Boite (Melbourne) & Camelot (Sydney). More recently they have headlined the Canberra Folk Festival, Montreal Music Festival, and will be performing in Adelaide at the Womadelaide Festival.
Tickets to the concert are now available. Costs are $20 adult, $15 Friends of BAC/concession, $35 family pass (Group of four). Bookings are available via –
• Online payments: Credit card only. www.artscentre.blacktown.nsw.gov.au
• By Phone: Call the Centre on 9839 6558. Phone payments with credit card only.
• In Person: Visit the Centre during opening hours. Payments with cash, EFTPOS or credit card.
