Morgenstern Trio
The Chamber Music Society of Detroit announced on 8 January 2010 that the 2009 winner of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA) is the Morgenstern Trio. After a call for nominations sent internationally to classical music presenters, musicians, educators and other professionals, the trio was selected in New York by a panel comprising musicians Jonathan Biss, Joel Krosnick, Jamie Laredo, Sharon Robinson and Michael Tree, and two award presenters, Jeremy Geffen, Carnegie Hall, and Shauna Quill, the University of Chicago Presents. The award is supported by a US$30,000 gift from each of twenty participating presenters and is the only existing piano trio award worldwide. In its fourth cycle, the award's benefit will allow the trio to make its first tour of the United States of America. Taking its name from the popular German poet, author and humorist Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914), the Morgenstern Trio was formed in 2005 at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, Germany; its membership consists of pianist Catherine Klipfel from France, violinist Stefan Hempel from Germany (who joined the ensemble in the summer of 2009, succeeding violinist Nina Reddig) and cellist Emanuel Wehse from Germany. In 2007, after only two years of intensive collaboration, the Trio was awarded first prize at the International Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna, second prize at the Fifth Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and second prize and the audience prize at the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich. The Morgenstern Trio has toured throughout Europe under the auspices of the Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Künstler (a national concert organization for Germany's rising young artists) and the 'Best of NRW' concert series. Festival appearances include the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, France, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Heidelberger Frühling, the WDR Musikfest and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. The Trio was recently invited to participate in the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) 'Rising Stars' series and is making its début during the 2009-2010 season at leading concert halls across Europe in Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Cologne, Brussels, Birmingham and Stockholm.
Information: www.comehearcmsd.org
Posted: 15 January 2010
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