A TRIO of harp, viola and flute players, who met at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama nearly 20 years ago, come to Dorset and Somerset on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th May, for a series with Concerts in the West, at Bridport, Ilminster and Crewkerne.

Trio Anima are Rosalind Ventris, viola, Anneke Hodnett, harp, and Matthew Featherstone, flute. They have been playing together since 2006, and have delighted audiences in concert halls and at festivals with their distinctive instrumental combination and imaginative programming.

The trio won the Elias Fawcett Award for Outstanding Chamber Ensemble at the 2012 Royal Overseas League Competition & First Prize at the Camac Harps Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2007. They have been Live Music Now Artists and were awarded a Chamber Music Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011. In 2017 they were selected as Kirckman Concert Society Artists.

The programme for their tour includes works by Arnold Bax, Sally Beamish, Faure, Piazzolla, Debussy, Dowland and Nathan James Dearden.

They are at Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 9th May at 11.30am, Ilminster Arts Centre that evening at 7.30pm and at Crewkerne Dance House on Saturday at 7.30pm.