ON Saturday, November 21, a trio of graduates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Estonian Academy of Music and Oxford University will perform in Melrose Parish Church Hall from 7.30pm.

Formed in 2011 when still students of the Conservatoire, these three talented young musicians have gained a reputation for their energetic and passionate performances across the UK and further afield.

Cellist Duncan Strachan, from the West Highlands, read music at Oxford where he graduated with a double first before joining violinist Rachel Spencer, from Yorkshire and their Estonian pianist, Kristi Kapten, at the Royal Conservatoire.

The Kapten Trio are equally at home performing classical, romantic and contemporary works.

The concert opens with Mozart’s second piano trio in G major. Written in the same year as Marriage of Figaro, its three movements form the longest of the composer’s six piano trios. Following Mozart comes Ravel’s piano trio of four movements, its sources of inspiration including Basque dances and Malaysian verse. Mozart then returns in Arvo-Pärt’s Mozart Adagio, composed for the Helsinki 1992 Festival and described as a ‘spiritual encounter between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries’.

Mendelssohn’s melodious four-movement trio in D minor concludes the programme.

Tickets at the door, £12. Free for accompanied children.