Active from 1999 | Genre Classical | |
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Albums Phantasmagoria - Danish Piano Trios Record labels Dacapo Records, Albany Records, Orchid Classics Similar Bent Sørensen, Andreas Brantelid, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Franz Schubert, Per Nørgård | ||
Trio con brio copenhagen mendelssohn allegro energico e con fuoco from piano trio no 2
Trio con Brio Copenhagen is an award-winning piano trio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was formed in 1999 and consists of the Danish pianist Jens Elvekjaer and the two Korean sisters Soo-Jin Hong and Soo-Kyung Hong.
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- Trio con brio copenhagen mendelssohn allegro energico e con fuoco from piano trio no 2
- Trio con brio copenhagen schubert piano trio live the royal library in copenhagen full version
- Biography
- Concert activities
- Awards
- Past concerts
- Discography
- Songs
- References
Soo-Jin Hong and Soo-Kyung Hong play an Andrea Guarneri violin and an Amati cello, respectively, and Jens Elvekjaer is a Steinway Artist.
Trio con brio copenhagen schubert piano trio live the royal library in copenhagen full version
Biography
The trio was founded by its three members in Vienna in 1999, and had its breakthrough when it took the main award at the prestigious German ARD International Music Competition in 2002.
Subsequently Trio con Brio settled in Copenhagen and In 2003 it performed the complete Beethoven piano trio cycle in three concerts at Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen to much critical acclaim. In 2005 Trio con Brio became Ensemble in Residence at Copenhagen's historic Round Tower. These concerts were broadcast on the European Broadcasting Union and the national Danish broadcaster DR.
Parallel to these engagements, Trio con Brio continued to win awards at competitions and festivals around the world, culminating with the highly prestigious Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award in 2005. This gave them concert engagements in twenty major concert series across the USA as well as a record deal. In their review of trio's resulting debut CD, the American Record Guide wrote: “One of the greatest performances of chamber music I’ve ever encountered [...] What stands out from this ensemble is the range of tone and sound [...] They command an amazing range of timbres. Melodies sing with an aching sweetness, or seduce with wild eroticism, or haunt with impenetrable mystery" while Gramophone wrote that "it’s easy to see what so impressed the judges [...] [the] performances can compete with the best available [...] a superb, greatly gifted chamber group".
Since then the trio has performed at numerous music venues around the world. These include New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Concert activities
Trio con Brio Copenhagen tours worldwide, giving concerts in major concert halls and at festivals in Europe, North America and Asia. In Copenhagen the trio gives regular concerts at venues such as the Queen's Hall of the Black Diamond.
Trio con Brio Copenhagen is frequently featured as soloists in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with orchestras such as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, l’Orchestre Syrinx (France), and the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea).
Awards
Past concerts
Discography
Mendelssohn Piano Trios, Marquis Classics 2009
Songs
Piano Trio in A Minor - Op 50 - TH 117: I Pezzo elegiaco: Moderato assai - Allegro giustoTchaikovsky & Smetana: Piano Trios · 2015
Trio for Clarinet - Viola and Piano: I Allegro appassionatoA Musical Celebration · 2011
Piano Trio in G Minor - Op 15: I Moderato assaiTchaikovsky & Smetana: Piano Trios · 2015