First Day in Coll - First Blog from Louko Trio!

It's AMAZING! We've only been here in Coll for 8 hours and we're already loving it.

 

After the longest and also the most beautiful journey we've done together as a trio, we arrived in Oban last night, still full of energy! We had the most delicious seafood dinner by the port and walked up the McCaig's Tower where we had an incredible view of the whole Oban. You can imagine how refreshing this would have been for us after a year in grey Manchester...!

Luckily for the trio, all of us are night-owls and don't usually get out of bed to start rehearsals until the afternoon. However this morning, we were all up, ready and eager to take the ferry to Isle of Coll at 7am. Our pianist, unfortunately was sea-sick so had to sleep all the way through but the strings got to enjoy the glorious view from the ferry!

Now this exciting week which we know will be full of hard work, inspiration and fun has begun. Everywhere we turn our eyes to is spectacular and inspirational, the fellow ensembles - the Cavendish winds, the Manon Quartet and the Attard/Zerafa Duo are all hard-working, friendly and great musicians! There is also a beautiful Bosendorfer grand piano on site to rehearse on. What more could we ask for?

For today, we've done our daily practice, played football with our new little friend and now we're eagerly waiting for our first delicious dinner! After that - pub.

From Louko Piano Trio 02/07/16