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TRIO WANDERER |
Vincent
Coq : piano
Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian : violin
Raphaël Pidoux : cello
Trio Wanderer quite deserves their
stage-name. Indeed, "Wanderer" pays homage to Schubert, and
more widely to German Romanticism which is often imbued with the leitmotiv
of the wandering traveler. These three French musicians are avid open-minded
wandering travelers, who explore the musical world, spanning the centuries
from Mozart and Haydn to nowadays. Acclaimed for its extraordinarily sensitive
style, almost telepathic nunderstanding of each other and technical mastery,
the Trio Wanderer is one of the world's foremost chamber ensembles.
Winning first prize for chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur
de Musique de Paris, the Trio Wanderer studied from 1987 to 1991 with
such masters as Jean-Claude Pennetier, Jean Hubeau, Janos Starker, Menahem
Pressler from the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Amadeus Quartet. In 1988, they
won the ARD Competition in Munich and, in 1990, the Fischoff Chamber Music
Competition in the USA.
Called a "Wandering Star" by the Strad Magazine, the Trio has
performed on the most prestigious music stages: Berlin's Philharmonic,
Paris' Théâtre des Champs Elysées, London's Wigmore
Hall, Milan's Teatro alla Scala, Washington's Library of Congress, Rio
de Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, Tokyo's Kioi Hall, Zürich's Tonhalle
and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. They have also performed at major festivals
such as Edinburgh, Montreux, Feldkirch, Schleswig Holstein, Rheingau Musiksommmer,
Colmar, La Roque d'Anthéron, the Folles Journées de Nantes,
Granada, Stresa, and Osaka.
Their debut at the Salzburg Festival in August 2002 was praised as "a
triumphant success" by the critics and led to their return for the
2004 and 2006 Festivals.
Trio Wanderer's 2009 engagements include performances at London's Wigmore
Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw for two recitals, Munich's Herkulessaal
, Berlin's Konzerthaus and festivals as Schwetzingen, Eisenstadt, or la
Roque d'Anthéron.
They have on many occasions collaborated with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin,
Christopher Hogwood, James Loughran, Marco Guidarini, Charles Dutoit and
James Conlon, accompanied, in triple or double concertos, by orchestras
as Nice, Montpellier, Santiago de Chile, La Coruna, Teneriffe, by Radio-France's
Orchestre National and Orchestre Philharmonique, Berlin's Radio Symphonic
Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Graz's Philharmonic Orchester, Köln's
Gürzenich Orchester...
Two CDs have been released by Sony Classical (Mendelssohn Trios in 1995
and the Dvorak and Smetana Trios in 1996). In 1999 the Trio Wanderer began
a new partnership with Harmonia Mundi, with whom they have recorded trios
by Chausson, Ravel, Schubert, Haydn, Shostakovich and Copland, Beethoven's
Triple Concerto (with James Conlon), Schubert's Trout Quintet, trios by
Saint-Saëns Brahms and Mendelssohn. In 2005, a new CD dedicated to
the Martinu's Triple Concerti was issued by Capriccio. Their recordings
have been awarded several prizes including Choc du Monde de la Musique,
Fanfare's Want List, Critic's Choice de Gramophone, CD of the Month' by
the BBC Music Magazine, Klassik.com Empfehlung, Cds des Monat Fono Forum
…
Their 2006 Brahms' trios recording, has received a Diapason d'Or of the
Year and the Midem Classical Music Award 2007 for best chamber music recording
of the year.
Their last recording (Harmonia Mundi) dedicated to Messiaen's Quatuor
pour la Fin du Temps with Pascal Moraguès (clarinet) has just been
awarded a Choc du Monde de la Musique.
A new recording of Beethoven-Haydn-Pleyel folksongs with the austrian
baryton Wolfgang Holzmair has just been released for Cyprès record.
Next January will be released for Accord-universal a recording of Bartok,
Martinu, Debussy and Escaich works with the clarinetist Paul Meyer, the
flutist Emmanuel Pahud and the oboist player François Leleux.
Besides numerous radio and
television recordings (Radio France, BBC, ARD, Mezzo), the French-German
television company ARTE made a film on the Trio Wanderer, broadcast in
June 2003. They just recorded for the National french broadcast France2
three TV programmes dedicated to Mendelssohn, Messiaen and Schubert.
Heralded by the professional music world, the Trio Wanderer was awarded
a Victoire de la Musique in 1997 and another Victoire in 2000 for Best
Chamber Music Ensemble of the year.
Trio Wanderer is honoured to be sponsored by the Accenture Foundation
Website: www.triowanderer.com