Triumvirate Triumphs

The tony triumvirate of British oboe player Nicholas Daniel, fellow Brit violist Timothy Ridout, and Estonian pianist Irina Zahharenkova received justifiable star billing at Camerata Pacifica’s latest concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall.

Daniel and Zahharenkova shone brightly in Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major,” while Ridout was a standout with Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s “Veiled” and Bowen’s “Viola Sonata No. 1 in C Minor.”

Daniel concluded the entertaining concert with Helen Grime’s “Two Birthday Fragments for Solo Oboe,” with all three players performing Thomas Oboe Lee’s “Parodia Schumanniana.”

Another triumph for founder Adrian Spence’s extraordinary chamber music group…