Dunja Lavrova

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Ensemble  Metamusika

  • Dunja Lavrova (Violin)- Director and Leader of Ensemble Metamusika
    Dunja Lavrova (Violin)- Director and Leader of Ensemble Metamusika
  • Nicolas Fleury (Principal Horn of Aurora Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
    Nicolas Fleury (Principal Horn of Aurora Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Hiroaki Takenouchi (Piano)
    Hiroaki Takenouchi (Piano)
  • Ensemble Metamusika in performance of piano trios. Photography by Hannah Strijbos.
    Ensemble Metamusika in performance of piano trios. Photography by Hannah Strijbos.
  • Ensemble Metamusika in performance of piano trios. Photography by Hannah Strijbos.
    Ensemble Metamusika in performance of piano trios. Photography by Hannah Strijbos.
  • Laura Kernohan (violin, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
    Laura Kernohan (violin, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Liam Buckley (viola, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
    Liam Buckley (viola, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Hannah Innes (cello, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
    Hannah Innes (cello, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)
  • Performing Shostakovich Piano Quintet
    Performing Shostakovich Piano Quintet
  • Konstantin Lapshin (Piano)
    Konstantin Lapshin (Piano)
  • James Barralet (Cello)
    James Barralet (Cello)
  • Hannah Strijbos (Viola)
    Hannah Strijbos (Viola)
  • Xuan Du (Violin)
    Xuan Du (Violin)
  • Victoria Harrild (cello)
    Victoria Harrild (cello)
Dunja Lavrova (Violin)- Director and Leader of Ensemble Metamusika
Dunja Lavrova (Violin)- Director and Leader of Ensemble Metamusika
Ensemble Metamusika began its life at the Royal College of Music, where violinist Dunja Lavrova was Bachelor of Music and Master of Performance student. Whilst at the Royal College, Dunja never conformed to just one type of a chamber group and enjoyed performing in various formations, be it an all-strings group, a piano trio, or a group which involved woodwind and brass players. What was most important for her is to play with like-minded musicians who would have a similar attitude towards music-making and would not be afraid to perform more unusual programmes. As the result, her "network" of chamber music colleagues grew bigger and bigger.

Dunja Lavrova was joined by horn player Nicolas Fleury and pianist Konstantin Lapshin when all three of them were awarded the highest prizes for their achievements upon their graduation as Masters of Music and were invited to perform Brahms' Horn Trio for HRH Prince Charles. A broadcast on French national television followed, as well as an invitation to perform the trio at the highly-acclaimed International Festival of La Baule.


After those engagements were completed, Dunja decided to continue creating more exciting and unusual chamber music projects with various colleagues under the name of Ensemble Metamusika: a group which she directs and leads, a group which never stays the same and "transforms" from programme to programme, and a group which sees various distinguished musicians come and go and then come back again. Ensemble Metamusika has been involved in various projects as a piano trio and string quartet and has also frequently reformed as a horn trio with Nicolas Fleury. Aside of performances at concert halls and festivals, the Ensemble has been involved in Education and Outreach projects as well as working on more unusual visual and dance collaborations.

Ensemble Metamusika is something like a “fellowship" of well-established musicians: united by a passion for music and the way they bring their musical ideas to life in order to achieve something truly unique.
 Among them, there are competition winners, established soloists and members of various leading UK orchestras, who have all performed with each other at various venues around the world or collaborated on other projects.

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Projects

Being a "transforming ensemble", Ensemble Metamusika is involved in a number of projects. Please click here to find out more about those projects.

News

- For the latest Ensemble Metamusika's project "Russian Revolution Quartets" (2017), Dunja is joined by three string players from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: Laura Kernohan (violin), Liam Buckley (viola) and Hannah Innes (cello).

- "Russian Revolution" programme will be performed at Conway Hall (London) on April the 2nd at 6:30pm. Programme includes S. Rachmaninoff's "Romance" (from unfinished quartet), G. Catoire's String Quartet in F-sharp, M. Weinberg's String Quartet N8 and D. Shostakovich's Quartet N8.


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- Dunja is very happy to welcome the two distinguished string players to the Ensemble, who joined the string quartet project in 2013: violist Hannah Strijbos and violinist Xuan Du. 

- Ensemble Metamusika is excited to participate in a collaboration between composer Ash Madni and Dance Ihayami , an Indian Dance company in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2013. In this exciting, unique project, the Ensemble will perform Ash Madni's quartet compositions as part of the production by Dance Ihayami at the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. To find out more, please click this link. 

- Ensemble Metamusika would like to congratulate its founding member, horn player Nicolas Fleury, for being appointed as the principal horn of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

-Ensemble Metamusika will be reforming as the Horn Trio, joined by the horn player and the founding member Nicolas Fleury, to perform in Les Moutiers-en-Retz, France in August 2014. Please follow the news on this page or check the events page on this website to find out more information as soon as it becomes available.

-In February 2013, in anticipation of the 140th anniversary of Sergey Rachmaninoff, the Ensemble were joined by the cellist James Barralet to perform composer's works as a piano trio.



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