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Violin, Flute and Piano Trio
Tobias Chisnall (violin), Maria Hincapie Duque (flute), Karen Smithies (piano)

Violin, Flute and Piano Trio

Programme:

Suite en trio, Op. 59 for Piano, Flute, and Violin – Mel Bonis (1858-1957)
Trio Sonata BWV 1038 in G major for Piano, Flute, and Violin – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Piece for Flute and Violin or Flute, Violin, and Piano TBC – Naomi Dodd
Sonata for Flute and Piano, FP 164 – Flute Sonata, FP 164 – Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Suite Italienne (from Pulcinella) – Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
El Diablo Suelto (The Devil on the Loose) – Heracio Fernandez

Sunday 15 March 2026, 3pm
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets available at the door
$20 online or $25 cash at the door
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.

Tobias Chisnall

Tobias Chisnall began studying the violin at the age of 5 in Canberra, Australia, under the guidance of leading Canberra violin pedagogues Yeung Ng and Vincent Edwards, the latter of the Juilliard School of Music and one of Australia's leading violinists and educators. At the conclusion of his undergraduate studies with Tor Fromyhr at the Australian National University's School of Music he was awarded first-class honors and the Friends' Bernhard Neumann Memorial Prize, awarded to 'an outstanding Honours [sic] year Music student who made a significant contribution to the School of Music and to the community.' Tobias completed postgraduate degrees at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Ole Bohn, and at Duquesne University's Mary Pappert School of Music in Pittsburgh, PA, with Charles Stegeman.

Karen Smithies

Karen Smithies moved to Tasmania from the Central Coast of NSW in 1998. She completed her Masters in Music Performance at the University of Tasmania in 2003, studying with Beryl Sedivka and David Bollard. Upon graduating from Sydney Conservatorium with a Bachelor of music in piano performance and accompaniment, Karen was awarded the “Mollie Neal” scholarship for excellence in Accompaniment. She has appeared as soloist and accompanist with regional orchestras and major vocal ensembles across the Central Coast and in Sydney.

Karen has made several national ABC and 3MBS FM broadcasts with artists such as cellist Christian Woijtowicz, violinists Marina Phillips and Romana Zieglerova, baritones Christopher Richardson and Michael Lampard and the TSO Brass and Friends.

Karen is currently lecturer in Accompaniment at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music and has lectured in piano studies at the University of Tasmania since 2000. In that time she has been busy as a repetiteur, and accompanist of undergraduates, postgraduates and visiting artists at the Conservatorium and throughout Tasmania. Karen regularly plays as orchestral and rehearsal pianist for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and repetiteurs for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Karen lives in on Hobart’s Eastern shore with her husband Matthew and four children.

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