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03 Oct 2024

Trio con Brio Copenhagen receives the prestigious Wilhelm Hansen Award 2024

The trio receives Wilhelm Hansen Foundation’s Honorary Award 2024 alongside with some of the leading figures in Danish culture life in dance, theatre and music.

“The ensemble marks its 25th anniversary this year. Violinist Soo-Jin Hong, cellist Soo-Kyung Hong and pianist Jens Elvekjær manage to constantly refine their chamber musical expression, and with each concert they bring new intensity to the classical works, while at the same time showing an inspiring willingness to explore and present new or lesser known compositions. The trio was formed in Vienna in 1999 and is now based in Copenhagen.

Trio con Brio receives an honorary prize of DKK 200,000 which will be awarded at a festive event on Tuesday 22 October 2024 at the Glyptoteket in Copenhagen. Here, the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation will also award grants and support to a large number of productions and individuals within music, theater and dance. A total of approximately DKK 8 million is distributed annually.”

01 May 2024

Trio con Brio Copenhagen co-present a brandnew music festival ‘Musikfestdage i Diamanten’ in The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen

Trio con Brio Copenhagen are the Co-Artistic Directors of a new music festival ‘Musikfestdage i Diamanten’ in The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. The festival launches spring 2024 on May 31 & June 1 in collaboration with Jesper Egelund, the music director of The Royal Danish Library.

The two-day festival curates a broad variety of small and larger concert formats that arouses curiosity in both the new and the experienced audiences in all ages.

The ambition is to reach out broader by presenting 35 concerts in different formats with renowned musicians and ensembles in 7 known and secret venues of the iconic waterfront building such as The Queen’s Hall, The Atrium, The Old Reading Room, The Kirkeby-Bridge and more.

https://www.kb.dk

16 Mar 2024

Chamber Choice of the Month and double 5-stars review in BBC Music Magazine

CHAMBER CHOICE of BBC Music Magazine & double 5-stars review

PERFORMANCE ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

RECORDING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“…The Trio’s demonic energy almost takes your breath away…”

Read the full review here

16 Mar 2024

6-stars review in Politiken

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Politiken gives 6 stars to Trio con Brio Copenhagen’s 25 Years Anniversary Release ‘The Passenger’ with piano trios by Weinberg and Schubert.

“…With the album ‘The Passenger’, Trio con Brio marks that they belong to the top of the world’s elite when it comes to today’s classical chamber music…”

Read the full review here

16 Mar 2024

A full-page review feature in Dagbladet Information

“Trio con Brio has made it to a hallmark to explore the limits of intensity, in the almost inaudible music up to the most mind-blowing”

“Trio con Brio har gjort det til et adelsmærke at udforske intensitetens grænser, i den næsten uhørlige musik frem til den mest sindsoprivende”

Read the full review here

16 Mar 2024

6-stars review in Magasinet Klassisk

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“…every note and chord gets significance and unfolds a rarely heard strength… Weinberg captures the consequences of the horrors of war so precisely that it makes me want to cry… Schubert at his best. Trio con Brio at their best.”

Read the full review here