Over to Bulgaria and the Varna Summer International Music Festival 2012 for a performance by the Atos Trio, recorded by Bulgarian Radio on July 3, 2012.
The Atos trio, consisting of Annette von Heh, violin Stefan Heinemeyer, violincello and Thomas Hoppe, piano play music of Beethoven and Schubert.
Starting with the Archduke Trio op. 97 and concluding with Schubert’s Trio in E-Flat Major D. 929.
Formed in Berlin, Germany in 2003 by Annette von Hehn (violin), Thomas Hoppe (piano) and Stefan Heinemeyer (violoncello) the ATOS Trio has established itself as one of the finest piano trios performing before the public today.
After intensive studies with Ilan Gronich, Menahem Pressler and the Alban Berg Quartet, the Atos Trio won the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition. A New Generation Artists Award from the BBC and a Borletto Buitoni Award soon followed.
At great venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Sala Sao Paulo, Carnegie Hall or the Berlin Philhar-monic; at festivals such as City of London, Cheltenham, Budapest Spring Festival and Gilmore Michigan; in performances at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, or the Ludwigs-burger Schlossfestspiele.
On enthusiastically received CD recordings of classical and romantic repertoire (Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn); in complete premiere recordings of Heinrich von Herzogenberg and Josef Suk; and most recently in a celebration of French, Russian, Czech and Viennese music (The French album, The Russian Album, The Czech Album, The Vienna Album). Their total dedication to the music, the joy, the almost magically differentiated interpretation set new standards.
“… One of the elite Piano Trios playing before the public today.”
(The Washington Post, USA)
Say no more, pull up a chair, get comfortable and relax for the next 90 minutes. Does a world of good.
Enjoy.
