Simffoni Mara Trio
June 2025
We are excited to announce that the Simffoni Mara Trio will be performing at West Wales Arts Centre in Fishguard on the evening of Friday June 6th.
After which they will be heading across the Irish Sea to perform in the
National Opera House of Ireland on June 14th and as part of the Waterford International Organ Festival on the 15th.
Photographs by Karel Jasper
More information about the events will be updated as they become available.
Click the link below for the Waterford Organ Festival Programme:
Meet the Musicians
David Pepper
Piano
David, in addition to being Artistic Director Cwmni Mara CIC is also the creative director of his own company, On Lands Edge – Ar Ymyl y Tir Ltd, which he formed in 2021. David brings with him a wealth of experience and creativity with an added interest in site specific works from his time studying at Dartington College of Arts and an emphasis on contemporary collaboration across the art forms. David is based in Fishguard, but has a wide experience of working across Europe and draws on this to curate exciting festival programs that aim to find a balance between community, connection, and creativity. David has been a long-term collaborator and supporter for the Arts across Pembrokeshire and has been actively involved in all the current Music Festivals of Fishguard with a view to increase partnership across the arts to increase accessibility, innovation, collaboration for a vibrant and diverse arts scene in rural Wales that is both rooted in its sense of place and connected to the urban centres and International Communities.
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Performing across the genres and collaborating with a wide mix of art forms David draws his inspiration from the landscape by actively moving through it via trail running, fast packing and pilgrimage. He is a leader for the Wexford-Pembrokeshire Pilgrim Way, a path that connects Ireland with Wales through the friendship of St Aidan & St David. And in the last few years has gone on a journey of discovering the sounds and stories that connect these two ancient lands. Often collaborating with the visual arts and filmmakers to create live cinematic experiences in the festival scene David is on a creative journey to express the old ways of these lands in contemporary performances
Daniel Davies
Cello
Daniel studied cello with Leonid Gorokhov at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was also a scholar to the Yale University’s prestigious Summer School of Chamber Music and was a Britten Pears Young Artist. He also had guidance and lessons from Cellist Janos Starker and studied extensively with Nicola Thomas.
Daniel is an accomplished cellist and currently divides his time between being Artistic Director of Music at Nantwen, his family, performance and teaching.
Georgina Stalbow
Soprano
Originally from Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, Georgina graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire with a First-Class Honours degree in Vocal and Operatic Studies in 2011. She studied with Margaret Field, Julian Pike and Louise Crane. She continued her studies and was awarded a Masters with Distinction from Wales International Academy of Voice in Cardiff where she studied with world renowned Welsh tenor Dennis O’Neill.
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Georgina recently finished touring with Opera Della Luna’s production of HMS Pinafore in which she performed the lead role, Josephine. She sang the role in venues all over the UK including Wilton’s Music Hall (London), Buxton Opera House, Theatre Royal, Bath and the Oxford Playhouse. Recently she also sang Bacchis in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène with Opera Della Luna, and Ilia (cover) in Mozart’s Idomeneo for Buxton International Festival.
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She is delighted to be performing in Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford and joining forces again with David Pepper after their highly successful recital as part of the Simffoni Mara Festival in St. Davids Cathedral last year.
