After distilling a lifetime's musicianship -as choral singer, vocal soloist, violinist (playing solos and improvising, chamber music and the orchestral repertoire), violin teaching and piano- Fiona began to write music.… Read More about Fiona's background
'I Solisti Veneti' play 'Autumn Suite' - with thanks to Donne in Musica
A version of 'Waters of the Wye' for clarinet and light percussion was performed in Cyprus in February 2017 by George Georgiou and Marios Nikolaou. Hear WATERS OF THE WYE for clarinet and light percussion here.
"Free as a Bird" for 'cello and piano was performed on Saturday December 3rd in Brussels as part of the Osmose Festival, again in Luxembourg in March 2017, and again in Brussels in April 2017.Hear "Free as a Bird" played by Johannes and Mamia here. A recording of the premiere performance was broadcast on BBC Radio Wales (Adam Walton).
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Please see Premieres & Performances below…
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"Chamber Music has been the most satisfying and meaningful aspect of my Music Making. I particularly love the genre of the String Quartet. I do enjoy playing in ensembles of all sizes & have lead the 'Francamente', 'Angiddy', and 'Parva Springs' String Quartets, and have played in the 'Taglionando' and other duos, and trios… It has been a joy to be able to perform my own music at various festivals and on other occasions.…"
2025 has brought a premiere of a duo for basset horn and piano.
2024 saw premieres of three works for string quartet, two for flute quartet, a trio for clarinet, violin and piano, and a piece for violin and piano.
Fiona's musical self-portrait, for trio of piano, viola and clarinet, as part of a global project devised by Paul Kopetz featuring 50 composers, was premiered in December 2023, in live performances by trios in Australia (Ensemble Flex), The Netherlands (Pelgrim Trio) and the USA (Lamont Trio).
Several of Fiona's pieces received their premieres during a concert dedicated exclusively to her music, in Tintern on 12th May 2023. Players from the St Woolos Sinfonia premiered her Oboe Quartet in its complete six-movement form, and other pieces for 'Cello Solo, Oboe and 'Cello, and String Trio.
The finale of Fiona's Double Bass concerto was premiered by the Dave Ayre Baroque Band on 9th December 2022 in Stroud.
Fiona's prize-winning piece for the First Patricia Adkins Chiti International Composition Competition -'La Pizzica'- was premiered on 13th November 2022 by EurOrchestra da Camera in Bari.
The 7-movement piano suite 'Mystical Swan in Blue' was premiered by Charles Matthews at a lunchtime concert in Rugby parish church on 8th February 2022. He gave it a second performance on 18th February in Shipston-on-Stour, and another in Henleaze, Bristol, on 17th September 2022.
Three movements of the oboe quartet were performed by principal players of the St Woolos Sinfonia twice in August 2021, in St Woolos Cathedral and in Newport (Pembrokeshire).
The piece "Signs of Change" received its world premiere on Monday, 30th November 2020 in the '7 notes in 7 days at 7pm!' project, with thanks to Maria Marchant.
'Musae Ensemble' played the quartet for Flute, Piano, Violin and 'Cello, 'Meeting my Muse', at the International museum and library of music of Bologna in Italy on 24th November 2019. (For details, click on the title above).
The piece for Clarinet and 'Cello 'Spread your wings and fly!' was performed by Geraldine Fastre, clarinet and Bruno Ispiola, 'cello during 'Osmose Intermezzo' in Brussels on 15th November 2019
Trio Arcadia di Roma gave the premiere of the Piano Trio, 'Reflections on Motherhood', at St. Paul's within the Walls, Rome, in February 2019 and have since toured with it, giving concerts in Milan (for the Amici del Loggione alla Scala), Mantova, Rome, Pisa, Verona and Firenze. They brought it to the UK in July 2019, playing it (together with 'Bluebells' for 'cello and piano and 'Rainy Autumn Day' for violin and piano) at concerts in Bristol and in Monmouth as part of the Monmouth festival.
The piece for solo violin 'Nature in the Ruins' and two string quartets ('Reveries on a River Journey' and 'Tears of Gaia') were performed as part of 'Ways to Peace' in Tintern Abbey, part of the United Nations Day of Peace, 2018.
The 'cello duet, 'Equinoxe de Printemps', was played at the Concert 'Osmose Intermezzo 2017' in Evere, Brussels, in November 2017.
'In Memoriam' for oboe and string trio was performed in the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Cagliari Opera House), in an event to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, by Ensemble Trame Sonore in November 2017.
'Free as a Bird' for 'cello and piano was performed on Saturday December 3rd 2016 in Brussels as part of the Osmose Festival, and repeated in Luxembourg in March 2017, and again in Brussels in April 2017.
For the Monmouth festival in St. Mary's Church on Monday 25th July 2016, the Parva Springs String Quartet performed works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Fiona Frank- the string quartets "Tears of Gaia" and "Reveries on a River Journey".
"Waters of the Wye" (May 2016) is a piece for solo violin and light percussion (comprised of rainstick, cymbals and bodhran), written by Fiona Frank. It was played for its premiere by Fiona Frank (violin) and Nick and Ischia Day (percussion), billed as the 'Fiona Frank Trio', at Piercefield Park on Sunday 15th May. A version for clarinet was played by 'Lyrical Noise' (George Georgiou, clarinet, and Marios Nicolaou, percussion) at the inaugural concert for Donne in Musica (Cyprus) at Melina Merkouri Hall, Nicosia, on February 7th, 2017.
Programme by 'I Solisti Veneti' (click for recording) advertised in Padua.
Parva Springs String Quartet performed 'Reveries on a River Journey' (St. Michaels Church, Tintern)
Fiona performed her piece for solo violin 'Nature in the Ruins' in Tintern Abbey (For a further picture, see here)
'Llandenny Rhapsody' (for Violin, Viola and Strings) was performed by 'Concordia Musica', Garway Church
'Llandenny Rhapsody' (for Violin, Viola and Strings) Performed by 'Concordia Musica', Llanwarne Church
String Quartet 'Abaty Tyndyrn' performed by Parva Springs String Quartet in Tintern
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