Each of the composers in this concert was encouraged in ways that helped combat and overcome self-serving male prejudices

Each of the composers in Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective’s concert was encouraged in ways that helped combat and overcome self-serving male prejudices, starting in the 1670s when Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre joined the musicians of Louis XIV’s court. The programme includes a fresh arrangement of Amy Beach’s romantic Invocation and Madeleine Dring’s life-enhancing Trio, before culminating in Fanny Mendelssohn's glorious, impassioned Piano Trio, which has become a signature work for Kaleidoscope.