Young Camerata Ireland Trio, NCH, John Field Room, Dublin

First convened by Barry Douglas at last year's Clandeboye Festival, the Young Camerata Ireland Trio includes the festival's 2004 and 2006 Young Musician laureates, pianist Michael McHale and flautist Eimear McGeown.The group's cellist, Brian O'Kane, has recently netted two top bursaries for the pursuit of further studies at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama.Their performance in the National Concert Hall's Summer Sounds at Lunchtime series reached the high standards of technical assurance, instrumental balance and interpretive insight you'd expect from Douglas's proteges.

Three individual musical personalities were nonetheless strongly present. In Weber's striking Trio in G minor Op 63, McGeown's sensitive intonation and seemingly inexhaustible breath control revealed an unfamiliar, darkly romantic side to her instrument.Her formidable tongue-and-finger coordination was at its finest in the cascades, trills and chirrups of the Sonate en concert Op 17 (1952) by Jean-Michel Damase - a neo-classical frippery that suggests, but never quite attains, the wit of a Poulenc or the cool of a Jacques Loussier.

O'Kane picked out some wonderfully rounded pizzicatos in Weber's pastoral slow movement, and was powerfully song-like in the ensuing clouds-and-sunshine finale.But this dedicated chamber musician impressed most, perhaps, with his remarkable handling of the cello part of Haydn's Trio in G Hob XV:15.Its almost entirely ancillary character was transformed into a fascinating succession of luminous phrases. Enthusiasm almost got the better of both McGeown and O'Kane in Piazzolla's tango Muerte del Ángel, where they were encouraged by a few glimpses of McHale's concerto-level sonorities.Elsewhere, McHale had been the trio's discreet backbone, responding to each composer's every thought with a pianism that was tastefully gestured, delicately graded, and infallibly clear .-Andrew Johnstone