Kettering Concerts

Kettering Concert 2026-03-15

Violin, Flute and Piano Trio
Tobias Chisnall (violin), Maria Hincapie Duque (flute), Karen Sharples (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 will be available on-line or 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 joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as a member of the violin section in 2023. From 2015 - 2023 Tobias was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Youngstown Symphony, and the Erie Philharmonic. He was appointed as Associate Concertmaster of the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra in 2017. He has regularly featured as a guest artist at the Sunflower Music Festival, Kansas, and the Buzzards Bay Music Festival, Massachusetts. He also held the positions of Assistant Concertmaster from 2019 - 2021 and Principal 2nd Violin in 2022 with the Berkshire Opera Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. After studies with Tor Fromhyr at the ANU School of Music and Ole Bohn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Chisnall moved to the United States for graduate study at Duquesne University with Charles Stegeman.

Maria Hincapie Duque

Maria studied flute in Colombia, France, Belgium, and the United States. In 2023, she moved to Australia, where she has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Her orchestral career has taken her across Australia, Europe, South America, and North America; from 2019 to 2023, she was Principal Piccolo of the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, Maria has performed with the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, and the Duquesne University Chamber Orchestra. She is the winner of the Colombian National Competition "Serie de los Jóvenes Intérpretes Banco de la República," the Medellín Philharmonic Concerto Competition, and the Duquesne University Concerto Competition. She has also received Second Place in the COFFA I International Virtual Competition (Piccolo Category) and the Australian Flute Festival Piccolo Competition in 2023, was a finalist in the International Competition "La Flauta Latinoamericana," and was awarded the distinction of 1ère Mention à l'unanimité from the CRR Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, France.

Karen Sharples

Karen Sharples 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.

Halina Donarska – Artist

Born in Poland in 1931, Halina Donarska, obtained a Masters degree in Poland, and worked for several years as a photographer, before migrating to Australia in 1966. She was employed in a large photographer's studio in Sydney before moving to Tasmania due to ill health.
In Hobart she discovered oil painting and finally realized her childhood dream to become an artist, using oil paints to interpret her view of the world. She joined art groups and residential schools in Tasmania and on the mainland where well-known artists such as Jan Senbergs, Frank Hodgskinson, Mirka Mora and Jeff Makin,as well as her friend Max Angus, taught her. Halina was one of the founding members of the Tasmanian Abstract and Contemporary Artists organization which formed in 1985. She had a joint exhibition with Patricia Gilles.
Her individual approach is characterized by vibrant colors whether she paints the landscape outdoors or an indoor still life; they show reflections of her early memories and traditions of her homeland Poland, and her love of the country side. Halina Donarska has had several solo and group exhibitions in Australia as well as a solo show in Canada.