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News 07/03/2013 Trio con Brio present new CD on US tour The prizewinning Danish ensemble Trio con Brio Copenhagen will be bringing their first recording of Nordic repertoire to the Kennedy Center's prestigious "Nordic Cool Festival" - and on US Tour to include California and Tennessee. Trio con Brio Copenhagen, consisting of Danish pianist Jens Elvekjaer and the Korean sisters Soo-Jin Hong (violin) and Soo-Kyung Hong (cello) have already established themselves as one of today's finest chamber groups on the international concert scene as well as on the CD market. Now a new era has come for the Danish ensemble as they focus on the finest contemporary Nordic repertoire on a new CD for the Danish national recording label Dacapo Records. On 13 March, Trio con Brio Copenhagen will perform at the Kennedy Center's prestigious Nordic Cool Festival as the only visiting chamber ensemble. The opening piece of the concert is also the title work on their new CD, presenting the world premiere recording of Bent Sørensen's work Phantasmagoria, written especially for Trio con Brio in 2007. Following the Nordic Cool concert, Trio con Brio Copenhagen will be touring the US bringing their brand new CD Phantasmagoria - Danish Piano Trios which is to be released officially in USA in May 2013. Read more about the Nordic Cool Festival    About the CD Phantasmagoria - Danish Piano Trios The three Danish composers Per Nørgård, Bent Sørensen and Hans Abrahamsen have all created new, visionary forms of musical expression, while also managing to renew a deep Romantic yearning to contain the intangible and the mysterious. In this new recording, Trio con Brio Copenhagen displays a keen awareness of the dreamlike idiom of the three composers, their magically charged sensitivity and sophisticated musical character sketches. This is music that transcends the now and stretches far into eternity.   Order or download CD      Tour schedule Monday March 11 www.rappahannockconcerts.org Wednesday March 13 Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) "Nordic Cool" Festival http://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=MNFSJ Friday March 15 Morrison Artists Series, San Francisco State University http://creativearts.sfsu.edu/morrison/about Saturday March 16 Sonoma (California) Classical Music Society Sunday March 17 Laguna Woods (California) Community Concerts. Time: 2 PM Tuesday March 19 Univ. Tennessee Chattanooga. Time: 7:30 pm www.utc.edu/fineartbb Editors Choice 2011!!   COPENHAGEN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 21-25 SEPT. 2011 WELCOMES ALL MUSIC LOVERS & CURIOUS LISTENERS. Trio con Brio Copenhagen Pieter Wispelwey Wenzel Fuchs Tatjana Masurenko Goran Sollscher The Danish String Quartet Come and enjoy music at at the highest level at Copenhagen’s new international chamber music festival! Trio con Brio Copenhagen is the initiator and artistic director of the festival, where eleven top musicians play together in new constellations and create life in the urban space. Copenhagen Chamber Music Festival opens with a festive concert at The Royal Danish Academy of Music on 21st of September and runs until 25th of September at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall, The Round Tower and The Black Diamond. For more information and the full program: www.ccmf.dk   Trio con Brio Copenhagen's new CD with Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Piano Concerto no.3 has been released. Highlights in 2011 include major tours to North America, Germany and Great Britain and concerts in Denmark, Italy and Sweden     Highlights Autumn ´10 include a tours in Germany, Potsdam (Berlin), USA, National Gallery Washington DC and New York Rockefeller University, first tour of China and concerts in Denmark and Sweden   Highlights Winter/Spring ´10 include a Beethoven Cycle in Queens Hall at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Budapest Spring Festival, an extensive tour of UK, and concerts in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.   Highlights summer ´09 include:  Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Mendelssohn series (3 concerts) Lincoln Center New York, Newport Festival and Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany.     New CD with the two Mendelssohn Trios is now released!       Trio con Brio Copenhagen's Ravel/Dvorak/Bloch disc is listed on the Critic's Choice in the American Record Guide. Buy it at:             Trio con Brio Copenhagen will in the 2006-7 and 2007-8 seasons perform in following venues in connection with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA):   Carnegie Hall Clive Gillinson, Executive & Artistic Director Ara Guzelimian, Artistic Advisor New York, New York   Stanford Lively Arts Robin Fribance, Associate Director Stanford, California   Ames Town & Gown Chamber Music Association Paula Forrest, Artistic Director   Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Jean-Paul Bierny, President Tucson, Arizona     Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts Craig M. Springer, Executive Director Cerritos, California   Chamber Music Cincinnati Audrey Luna, President Cincinnati, Ohio   Chamber Music Monterey Bay Amy Anderson, President Carmel, California   Chamber Music Sedona Albert Harclerode, Executive Director Sedona, Arizona   Chamber Music Society of Detroit Lois R. Beznos, President Farmington Hills, Michigan   Chamber Music Society of Louisville Robin Hicks, President Louisville, Kentucky   Chamber Music Society of Utica Marietta von Bernuth, President Utica, New York   Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center University of Maryland Ruth Waalkes, Director, Cultural Participation College Park, Maryland   El Camino College Center for the Arts Bruce Spain, Executive Director Torrance, California   Friends of Chamber Music - Kansas City Cynthia Siebert, Executive Director Kansas City, Missouri   Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Dan Gustin, Director Kalamazoo, Michigan   Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Lee Bell, Senior Director of Programming West Palm Beach, Florida   Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts Myra Janco Daniels, Chairman, President and CEO Naples, Florida   Purdue Convocations - Purdue University Todd E. Wetzel, Director West Lafayette, Indiana   San Antonio Chamber Music Society Jan H. Van den Hende, President San Antonio, Texas   Thomasville Entertainment Foundation Janice Faircloth, Executive Director Thomasville, Georgia Steinway Artist   Jens Elvekjaer has recently been appointed the first Danish Steinway Artist.   Trio con Brio Copenhagen receives the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA)   Trio con Brio Copenhagen has been chosen, from a significant number of nominees, as the winning trio to receive the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award. The Award was created to encourage and enhance the careers of accomplished and extraordinarily promising young and "rising" piano trios and includes a CD-recording and an extensive tour of 20 major United States venues including Carnegie Hall, New York.    Triumph for Trio con Brio Copenhagen: Danish Piano Trio Awarded Prestigious Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award - National Tour Planned for 2006-07 & 2007-08 Seasons - FARMINGTON HILLS, MI. – The Chamber Music Society of Detroit today announced that the second Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA) has been awarded to the Trio con Brio Copenhagen. 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 Claude Frank, Joseph Kalichstein, Sharon Robinson, Michael Tree and Peter Wiley; and two KLRITA presenters, Cynthia Siebert, Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City, and Dallas Tidwell, Chamber Music Society of Louisville. ABOUT THE AWARD A biennial piano trio award, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award derives its impetus from the desire to honor the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio (Joseph Kalichstein, piano, Jaime Laredo, violin, Sharon Robinson, cello) in perpetuity by giving recognition to this prestigious trio's contribution to chamber music worldwide for almost 30 years.  In addition, the award was created to encourage and enhance the careers of accomplished and extraordinarily promising young and "rising" piano trios that will be chosen every other year.  To be considered for the award, trios must have been together for approximately 5-10 years, be actively engaged in touring, and have management. The KLRITA is administered by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. Originated by Lois R. Beznos, President of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, the KLRITA is based upon the collaboration of 20 participating chamber music presenters.  The winning trio benefits from presentation on the series of 20 participating presenters nationwide over the two-year award period.  Moreover, the Award provides for a CD recording of the winning trio by Azica Records.  The winning trio will also benefit from the contribution by Kenneth Warren & Son, Ltd. of instrument maintenance services by its workshop in addition to its efforts to identify the highest quality violins and cellos as prospective loans to the trio winners during the award period. The KLRITA is supported in part by the contribution of $30,000 by the 20 participating chamber music presenting organizations across America, including the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. A unique advantage to presenters is that, in perpetuity, they will have the benefit of an endowed concert, paid for by the award endowment fund, every other season.  Additional support for the KLRITA comes from Jean and Sam Frankel, the Matilda R. Wilson Fund and the Whitney Fund. Significant recognition opportunities are also available for additional major donors to the award endowment.  For information, please contact Lois Beznos, President, Chamber Music Society of Detroit at 248-737-9982.