Produced by Duncan Fox, the recital will have Inês Andrade on Piano, Soprano Angela Silva and Hilary Alper on Cello. For further information, please consult www.culturacentro.gov.pt/museu-jose-malhoa/agenda/ or alternatively contact (+351) 262 831 984 or email mjosemalhoa@drcc.gov.pt.

It has been the longstanding ambition of his only four grandchildren; Charles, Martin, Anne & Margaret to have this music played publicly and recorded professionally for posterity. None of this would ever have been possible to bring to fruition without the invaluable work and assistance of Duncan Fox to whom we owe a great debt of thanks playing and recording Arthur Trump’s music.

Biography

Arthur Lionel Trump was born in Bridport, Dorset, England in 1893.

His parents were registered as being “Licensed victuallers” at the time and owners of The Greyhound Hotel in Bridport.

In 1912, a young English composer, Arthur Lionel Trump set sail on a steamship bound for Buenos Aires, complying with the wishes of his father, who disapproved of his son’s ambitions to follow a career linked with music.


Trump’s stay in South America lasted for 12 years and during this period, whilst respecting his father’s wishes not to make music his profession, Trump managed to compose a considerable number of works, the majority being solo piano pieces but including others for voice and for the cello.

The music that he wrote reflects the personal circumstances of this young composer. Alongside pieces that express intense nostalgia of his homeland or concerns about the fate of Europe, devasted by war, we find musical interpretations of the sounds and landscapes of South America as well as works inspired by love.

Many of Arthur Trump’s scores have so far been played only within an intimate circle of the composer’s family and friends, thus this concert will be the first time that any of Trump’s compositions will have been performed in public.

Arthur & Peggy remained married until Arthur’s death in 1974. Peggy lived on until 1998. They had one daughter – Anne Maureen, born in 1930 who lived to the age of 87. Anne Maureen had four children.

Two of the children lived permanently in Portugal and the other two in England. Anne Maureen died in 2017 having spent the final 17 years of her life living happily in Cascais, Portugal.