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  Piano trio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group.
In Europe, leading trios include the Florestan Trio in the United Kingdom, the Trio Wanderer in France,the Storioni Trio Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the Trio Fontenay, the Trio Parnassus and the Trio Jean Paul in Germany, the Vienna Piano Trio in Austria and the Guarneri Trio of Prague in the Czech Republic.
Trio for clarinet (or viola), cello, piano in a minor, Op.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_trio   (1473 words)

  
 Roussel: Piano Trio, opus 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The piano trio was composed while Roussel was a student at the Schola Cantorum; in the same year that he wrote the trio, he also began teaching at the Schola (a class in counterpoint).
The trio for violin, cello and piano, opus 2, was his first work of major scope — a scope that is excessive in relation to the ideas, which are rather unimportant.
It is not surprising that the Trio won d'Indy's approval, for in it Roussel dutifully observes the cellular and cyclic principles of construction as taught at the Schola....
www.opus1.com /~ehoornaert/roussel/02_trio.htm   (400 words)

  
 Caltabiano: Piano Trio No. 1 (A Duo for Three Players)
Piano Trio No. 1 (A Duo for Three Players) was commissioned by the American Chamber Trio and premiered at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. The paradoxical subtitle refers to the dramatic relationship between the piano, on one side, and the strings, acting singly or together, on the other.
After a brief introduction, the piece begins in earnest with the longest of the three main sections: The piano almost completely dominates the texture by first announcing in rapid succession a wide variety of motives and then alternating a series of variations on them with sections exposing their simple, underlying cantus firmus.
By the end, the strings are completely dominant, and the piano is reduced to trying to sustain the slow chords first heard in the strings early in the work.
www.caltabiano.net /works/piano_trio_1.html   (259 words)

  
 Trio Parnassus
Trio for Violin, Viola and Piano in B minor, op.
Trio for Violin Violoncello and Piano in E minor, op.
Trio for Piano, Violin and Violoncello in C-sharp minor, op.
www.trioparnassus.com /english/seite3/content.htm   (1548 words)

  
 CD Baby: EAKEN PIANO TRIO: Playing With Fire
the trio specializes in audience building residencies and benefit concerts to raise awareness of the homeless problem in the united states, raising 1000's of dollars to support such organizations as habitat for humanity, project s.h.a.r.e., safe harbor and the animal alliance.
the piano trio from 1915 by maurice ravel (1875 - 1937)
the trio in b minor, composed between july 19, 1932 and february 6, 1933, reflects the essence of turina's style and genius.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/eakenpianotrio   (922 words)

  
 Piano Trio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On this occasion it was the Grieg Trio from Norway, with a programme that was nearly all Beethoven, with just one interloper: the new Trio from Peter Maxwell Davies.
It was a gutsy and intense performance of all three [Beethoven piano trios] by all three, and bang in the middle they premiered Maxwell Davies's own, first piano trio, Voyage to Fair Isle, a world away from classical Beethoven.
Interesting sonorities are explored (teetering violin harmonics against the lowest cello register) before the piano writing becomes more urgent, establishing a frantic pace, which cannot be sustained, and the whole wild dance subsides into a shimmering sea.
www.maxopus.com /new/pianotri.htm   (966 words)

  
 Mendelssohn Piano Trio
Since then, the trio has developed a loyal audience, performing with that rare combination of powerful individual talent and tight-knit collaboration that is the hallmark of a truly exceptional chamber music ensemble.
Currently Ensemble-in-Residence for Washington DC's Embassy Concert Series and at Messiah College in PA, the Mendelssohn Piano Trio is rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting young ensembles on the national and international music scene.
During the Trio’s 2002 tour in Taiwan, their performance at the National Concert Hall in Taipei was broadcasted on the Taiwanese public television channel.
www.mendelssohnpianotrio.com /aboutus.asp   (351 words)

  
 Heinrich Marschner Piano Trio No.7, Op.167
Though he considered himself primarily a composer of opera, he did write 7 piano trios and 2 piano quartets.
To each of his works for piano, violin and cello he gave the title "Grand Trio", indicative of the importance he attached to them.
The Seventh Piano Trio is the last in the series of Marschner's Grand Trios.
www.editionsilvertrust.com /marschner-piano-trio-7.htm   (259 words)

  
 Jazz | All About Jazz
The trio is and has been most jazz pianists' favorite format, and with good reason: the jazz piano trio has been said at times to represent the essence of jazz in the most condensed yet effective way possible.
Formerly, in the heyday of both swing and bop, the piano assumed a very dominant role where, it would have been fair to say, it was less a trio in the ideal sense of three equal parts, than it was piano PLUS bass and drums.
Simply stellar mainstream piano trio music, played at the legendary venue where piano trios often ruled the roost and the stakes were high for a piano trio to deliver.
www.allaboutjazz.com /library/pianotrio.htm   (796 words)

  
 Piano Trio "Spirale"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Piano Trio "Spirale" consists of three young musicians with four different nationalities: Monica Florescu, piano (Romanian), Pedro Iram Pozos Melo, violin (Mexican) and Makcim Fernandez Samodaiev, cello (Russian-Cuban).
The Piano Trio "Spirale" also became representative of Rotary International after Makcim Fernandez Samodaiev was designated Ambassador of Rotary International's Club Rotario Olmeca, Dist. 4200.
In April 2003 the Piano Trio "Spirale" became laureate of the Festival de Tremplin JM in Ottignies, Belgium, and was awarded concert engagements within Belgium.
www.concertartist.info /bios/spirale.html   (206 words)

  
 Vienna Piano Trio - October 29
Founded in 1988, the Vienna Piano Trio (Stefan Mendl, piano, Wolfgang Redik, violin, and Christian Poltra, cello) has achieved a meteoric rise to fame (The Strad), and has been hailed as one of the worlds leading ensembles of piano, violin and cello (The Washington Post).
In October 1999 the trio performed at the Vienna Musikverein the world premiere of a triple concerto written for the ensemble by the Austrian composer Christoph Cech.
Having won numerous prizes at international competitions, the Vienna Piano Trio went on to study with the Trio di Trieste, the Haydn Trio Wien, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Ralph Kirshbaum, with members of the La Salle and Guarneri Quartets, and with the Beaux Arts Trio, among others.
www.virginia.edu /music/tecs/performers/viennapianotrio.htm   (351 words)

  
 Dussek Piano Trio - New Music - Peoplesound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His piano trio in F minor is one such piece, full of fluttering turn of the century society passions.
The Dussek Piano Trio pitch in perfectly, violinist Peter Tanfield and cellist Margaret Powell swelling their phrases with as much swoon-some emotion as possible without loosing their refined airs and graces while Michael Dussek warms his piano into the Romanza's light and friendly prettiness.
The Dussek Piano Trio was formed in 1988 by three players who have each achieved wide international recognition.
www.peoplesound.com /artist/thedussekpianotrio   (231 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Pno Trios: Music: Clara Wieck Schumann,Fanny Mendelssohn,Dartington Piano Trio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Trio for piano, violin & cello in G Minor, Op 17
Trio for piano, violin & cello in D minor, Op 11
While Clara Schumann's very competent Trio is reminiscent of Robert's Trio No. 3, it lacks the memorable melodies and much of the drama of the latter work.
www.amazon.ca /Pno-Trios-Clara-Wieck-Schumann/dp/B00005NUPK   (554 words)

  
 Jazz Piano Trio Roundup: Bill Mays, Hank Jones, Roger Kellaway
The piano trio is alive and well, not only in its modern approach a la E.S.T. or Bad Plus or Rachel Z, but also in a more mainstream jazz approach.
The trio setting is one of the loveliest for jazz pianists, because it not only allows them to showcase their harmonic concept as well their abilities as a soloist, it also allows them to interact with a seemingly ideal number of other musicians.
For drummers and bassists, the piano trio is an opportunity to play both supportive and leadership roles, the piano being an instrument that is dynamically well matched to both.
www.jazzitude.com /trio_mayjones.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Trio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A trio is a group of three identical or similar objects, or a grouping of three persons for a common purpose.
Harmonica trio (chromatic harmonica, bass harmonica, chord harmonica)
Trio (TV series) is a South Korean television drama produced by the MBC in 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trio   (267 words)

  
 London / UK Piano Trio - McLean-Thorsen-Strange Trio
The trio features the commanding presence of this superlative violinist (also of Leopold String Trio and Nash Ensemble) together with the gorgeous cello sound produced by Alasdair Strange and the twinkling fingers of pianist Viv McLean.
This was followed by Fauré's Trio in D minor, written when the composer was nearly eighty, and yet portraying remarkable freshness and vivacity, to which the players did full justice.
The piano trio is not an easy medium but these three musicians proved how wonderful it can be, and this was fully appreciated by an enthusiastic audience.
www.pianotrio.info   (1310 words)

  
 USD - Rawlins Piano Trio
The University of South Dakota Rawlins Piano Trio: John Thomson, violin; Susan Keith Gray, piano; and Nick Curry, cello.
Founded in 1987, the Trio performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad, including prestigious concert series, television and radio broadcasts, appearances at conferences and educational outreach to young audiences.
The Trio is named in honor of Marjorie Rawlins and the late Robert Rawlins, its principal benefactors.
www.usd.edu /cfa/Music/rawlins.cfm   (380 words)

  
 The Peabody Trio - Long Bio
Whether they are finding something new to say about the origins of the piano trio repertoire in Haydn, or singing along in a fresh piece by Aaron Jay Kernis, the musicians in the Peabody bring what The Washington Post describes as “the romantic fervor of the early 20th century greats” to every performance.
The Trio itself was formed a few years earlier, in 1987, when violinist Violaine Melançon and pianist Seth Knopp, who are now married, played a recital together in Quebec.
On tour, the Trio is often asked to give master classes and performance workshops, and to participate in audience outreach activities.
www.peabodytrio.org /long.htm   (405 words)

  
 St. Petersburg String Quartet
They opened the concert with Rachmaninoff's "Trio elegiaque" in G minor, a work that could be ascribed to Tchaikovsky, with no loss of dignity for either composer.
The first was the only completed movement of a Piano Trio in E flat that Alexander Alyabiev wrote shortly before the War of 1812.
[In Dvorak’s ‘Dumky’ Trio] Aranovskaya's violin was sweet and soaring; Shukayev's cello sang in rich tones; Mogilevsky's piano underscored the tranquil passages and energized the high ones.
www.stpetersburgquartet.com /brahms_trio.phtml   (480 words)

  
 Gould Piano Trio - Recordings
Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49
Piano Trio No 2 in C minor, Op 66
The young players of the Gould Trio give performances as fine as any on disc … [and] prove to be inspired recording artists, offering passagework of sparkling evenness and clarity.
www.gouldpianotrio.com /mendelssohn.asp   (89 words)

  
 Vienna Piano Trio
Described as "one of the world's leading ensembles of violin, cello and piano" (Washington Post), and "the Beaux Arts Trio of the 21st century" (The Baltimore Sun), the Vienna Piano Trio has been praised for its silken homogenous sound, and its "telepathic gifts of communication" (The Plain Dealer).
O.), Heidelberg Fruehling (all Schumann trios), and appearances at Berlin Konzerthaus, Hamburg Musikhalle, Munich Gasteig, in Boston, Baltimore, at the Frick Collection, in Toronto, Houston, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, and a tour to all the major stages of South America.
Recordings for Nimbus (including trios by Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Schnittke and Shostakovich) have won many awards; in May 1999 Classic CD voted them "Top of the Class," and The London Times voted their latest Beethoven CD as Record Of The Year.
www.shuppartists.com /Shupp/Artists/Vienna.htm   (515 words)

  
 English Piano Trio - New Music - Peoplesound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The English Piano Trio gave its debut recital at St John''s, Smith Square in 1987.
The Trio is keen to introduce new works in concert programmes, and has given the world premiere of Trios by Berthold Goldschimdt and Malcom Lipkin.
The Trio also performs lesser known works from the classical period, and these songs for voice and piano are part of this endeavour.
www.peoplesound.com /artist/englishfolksong   (162 words)

  
 Gryphon Trio
The Trio’s namesake, the Gryphon, is a mythical creature that is half lion and half eagle.
Known as a guardian of treasures, the Gryphon is representative of the connection between psychic energy and cosmic force.
The Trio’s latest release, Mozart's complete works for piano trio, was recently hailed by Gramophone magazine as "a new front runner...” In 2004, the Gryphon’s Canadian Premieres CD was awarded a Juno.
www.gryphontrio.com /pk_presskit.php   (367 words)

  
 Mendelssohn Piano Trio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Mendelssohn Piano Trio had made the evening a triumph for Austrian composers and pianos alike.
The Mendelssohn piano trio is currently ensemble in residence for Washington DC's Embassy Series and at Messiah College in PA. In 2002 the group has presented the complete Beethoven trios in Portugal and Washington DC to critical acclaim.
The trio's performance from a National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan was broadcast on Taiwanese public television.
www.mendelssohnpianotrio.com   (336 words)

  
 NPR : Performance Today -- PT Young Artists-in-Residence -- Amelia Piano Trio
Together, the trio and duo form the quintet called East Meets West, an ensemble dedicated to the exploration of the rich cultural and musical traditions of Eastern and Western music.
The Amelia Piano Trio closes out their residency with a performance of what Jason hails as "one of the all time greats" -- Brahms' Piano Quintet in G minor, with guest violist Honggang Li of the Shanghai String Quartet.
Reflecting back on the week, the trio is pleasantly surprised at how well all the personalities have meshed and at the great chemistry they've established during this residency.
www.npr.org /programs/pt/4a/ameliatrio.html   (641 words)

  
 Damocles Trio
The trio also produced “Música por doquier” (“Hispanic Music Everywhere”) (www.musicapordoquier.org) in 2004, a year-long festival in New York City underwritten by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura, y Deporte, including master classes, lectures, concerts, and premieres of newly commissioned works.
Many of the trio’s Spanish-themed projects have won the support of the Consulate General of Spain, The Foundation for Iberian Music at the CUNY Graduate Center, Instituto Cervantes, and the King Juan Carlos I Center at NYU.
The trio’s critically acclaimed recording of Turina’s complete piano trios and quartet with Emerson Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton is available on Claves Records, and the ensemble has been engaged to record the complete piano trios of Heitor Villa-Lobos in 2006.
www.damoclestrio.com   (291 words)

  
 Salzburg Piano Trio : Contact
Alfred Hill and Johannes Brahms – Australia and Europe – like the members of the Salzburg Piano Trio had to overcome thousands of kilometers on their way to their newest CD in order to find each other finally in Salzburg.
She is a founding member of the Salzburg Piano Trio and appears with this ensemble in concerts regularly.
Caroline is a founding member of the Salzburg Piano Trio and the owner of a sixteen-year-old half-breed dog.
www.salzburgerklaviertrio.at /english/contact   (855 words)

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