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Formed in 1997, the Trio is rapidly gaining an
enviable reputation as one of the most outstanding ensembles of its
generation. In 1999, the Trio won First Prize in the Melbourne
International Chamber Music Competition and in the same year was
selected for representation by the Young Concert Artists Trust in
London. It has since appeared at numerous festivals and venues
throughout Europe, North and South America and Australia.
Invited to take part in the BBC Radio 3's New
Generation Artists scheme in 2000, the Trio can be frequently heard on
Radio 3. Broadcasts have included concerts live from Wigmore Hall,
Bridgewater Hall, LSO St Luke's and the City of London, Cheltenham and
Edinburgh International Festivals.
Selected as "Rising Stars" in 2002 by the
European Concert Halls Organisation, the Trio gave a series of recitals
at major venues throughout Europe and a debut recital at New York's
Carnegie Hall .
Over the last year, the Trio's concert schedule
included a performance at the Schwetzinger Festspiele (broadcast on TV
and radio), a tour of Australia and New Zealand and residencies at the
Lofoten and Båstad International Chamber Music Festivals.
The 2008/09 season includes performances in London's
Cadogan and Wigmore Halls, recordings of Haydn's piano trios for Naxos,
tours in Scotland and Sweden, and appearances at the Festspiel
Mecklenburgh-Vorpommern and the Presteigne and Bremen Festivals.
The Trio's first recording of Schubert on the NAXOS
label was released in August 2006 to critical acclaim (click here
for further details). The Trio was subsequently invited by Naxos to
record Mozart's complete works for piano trio, which are due for release
in November 2008. The world première recording of Karen
Rehnqvist's Beginning for Piano Trio, commissioned for the Trio is
available on the BIS label.
In the Autumn of 1999, the Trio was awarded a
Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London
and has recently been appointed as Associate Ensemble. The members of
the Trio also have teaching posts at Gothenburg University's School of
Music and give lectures, masterclasses and concerts throughout the year.
The Trio takes its name from the Swedish town in
which it gave its first performance and it has established in Kungsbacka
an annual chamber music
festival, which is now in its seventh year.
It has made several television appearances in Sweden and frequently
tours throughout the country.
The Trio is very grateful for the major scholarship
awarded by the Sten A Olssons Foundation for Research and Culture and
for the valuable support from the Mannheimer Foundation.
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