After last year’s successful duo recital and their acclaimed appearance as a chamber group in the 2015 Spirit of Music Festival, Duo Timossi return to St Peter’s Church, Petersfield, with an epic programme of works for violin and piano, on Saturday, October 10 at 7.30pm.

The programme will include Beethoven’s famous ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ op.47, a piece that bears the name of French violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer, but was actually composed for the renowned Afro-European violinist George Bridgetower who was vowing audiences in Vienna at that time.

Successively the sonata inspired a novel by Leo Tolstoi and a string quartet by Leoš Janácek. Sara Deborah and Alessandro Timossi will also present W.A. Mozart’s sparkling sonata in A major, K 305, written in his youthful years in Paris 1778, and Bach’s first solo sonata in G minor BWV 1001.

(Sara Deborah Struntz-Timossi studied in London at the Royal College of Music, and performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and early music performer. Since moving to the area she has contributed in many ways to the musical landscape in the Liss and Petersfield area and is the founder and artistic director of the Spirit of Music Festival.

She also teaches at Churchers’ College. Composer and pianist Alessandro Timossi is Head of Music Programmes at the Guildhall School of Music in London and has recently been awarded his DPhil in composition from the University of Oxford.)

Admission is free, with a retiring collection.