Bergin, Mary

Cellist who has been a member of the Light Brigade and the London Symphony Orchestra.

In 1993, the Light Brigade participated in the Florida International Festival New Horizon Series. They were back in the Sunshine State on 9^th August 1995 for a recital at the Rose Cottage Tea Room in Old Sanford.

On 10^th August 2007, the LSO and Schola Cantorum de Venezuela gave the U.K. premiere of A Flowering Tree by John Adams with a staged concert performance at Barbican Hall.

They performed the complete score of Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet on 21^st and 23^rd November 2008.

From 23^rd through 30^th March 2009, they presented “Russian Dreams: The Music of Sergei Prokofiev”. The eight-day affair included all of the Prokofiev’s symphonies and violin concertos, and his second and fourth piano concertos.

They offered up “a gentle infinity” by Dorothy Ker, “Violin Concerto” by Felix Mendelssohn, with soloist Sarah Chang, and “Symphony No. 2” by Sir Edward Elgar on 5^th October 2010.

On 13^th March 2011, they performed the world premiere of Vlad Maistrovici’s “Halo”, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3”, with Jonathan Biss at the keys, and “Symphony No. 7”.

They were joined by mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca on 2^nd October 2012 for an evening of operatic highlights by Georges Bizet, Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saens and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Recordings on which Mary appears include: Britten: War Requiem, Epiphany, Holst: The Planets, James Macmillan: The World’s Ransoming/The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, John Adams: A Flowering Tree, Music of Hope, Sibelius: Symphony No. 2/Pohjola’s Daughter and Symphony No. 1 Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Johan de Mei with the LSO; First Skirmish and Visions of America with the Light Brigade; and, the soundtrack of Atlantis.

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