Gelius Trio

Gelius Trio
	General information
Genre (s)	Classical music
founding	1999
Website	www.geliustrio.de
Founding members
violin	Sreten Krstic
violoncello	Michael Hell
piano	Micael Gelius

The Gelius Trio is a piano trio founded in Munich in 1999 .

history

The musicians came together for the first time on the occasion of a CD production with works by the composer Dorothee Eberhardt and after this collaboration founded the ensemble. Sreten Krstic plays a violin made by Nicolaus Gagliano , Michael Hell a cello that was built by his brother Januarius Gagliano in 1736. The trio performed a. a. at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , Millstätter Music Weeks , the Hohenlohe Cultural Summer and at Elmau Castle .

The latest recording "Russian Trios" was released in 2018 by Thorofon / BellaMusica. On the CD Oblívion , released in January 2014 by Thorofon, the trio presents tangos by Astor Piazzolla and the combination of classical and jazz in Café Music by Paul Schoenfield . In 2012 the CD Liebesfreud & Liebesleid appeared as a duo with Michael Hell and Micael Gelius. There are also recordings on Bayerischer Rundfunk , Hessischer Rundfunk and ORF .

Members

Sreten Krstic

Sreten Krstic (violin) has been a member of the Munich Philharmonic since 1980 (first concertmaster since 1982 ). He was born in Belgrade in 1953 . He began playing the violin at the age of seven and completed his music studies in Belgrade with Toskov and Paviovic fourteen years later. A year earlier he had already won a prize in the international competition of Jeunesses Musicales in the category "Duo violin - piano". Three years later he won the Belgrade International Violin Competition and also received a special prize for the best interpretation of Bach's solo sonatas.

Concert tours have taken him through Europe, Japan, the USA and the USSR. Sreten Krstic was invited to recordings by WDR, BR and BBC London and played in all radio and television studios in Yugoslavia. As a soloist he played with Sergiu Celibidache , Hiroshi Wakasugi , Horst Stein, Václav Neumann , Dimitrij Kitajenko and others. v. a. Several vinyl and CD recordings.

Michael Hell

Michael Hell (violoncello) was born in 1958 into a family of musicians in Vienna. He studied at the Vienna Music University. In 1980 he graduated with high honors. In 1981 the Munich Philharmonic signed him as the first solo cellist. Under the guidance of Sergiu Celibidache, he also worked on the phenomenological aspects of music and sound for years. As a soloist he played cello concerts with conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi , Herbert Blomstedt , Hiroshi Wakasugi , Dmitrij Kitajenko , Maxim Shostakovich and others. As a soloist, chamber musician and teacher, he toured European countries as well as South America, Mexico, China and Japan. He participated in international festivals and recorded CDs, radio and television recordings. Since 2002 he has been a teacher at the Tyrolean State Conservatory. In April 2008 he was appointed professor by the Austrian Federal President for his cultural merits.

Micael Gelius

Even before his studies, the pianist Micael Gelius performed several times as a soloist with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. After graduating from high school , he studied song accompaniment with Erik Werba and Helmut Deutsch as well as school music in Munich . He continued his solo training at the Musikhochschule Würzburg in the piano classes of Margarita Höhenrieder and Erich Appel and graduated with an artistic exam. Master courses and a scholarship from the International Chamber Music Association complemented his studies.

Micael Gelius gives concerts as a soloist and chamber music partner in Europe, America and Asia and makes guest appearances at music festivals (e.g. at the 2nd music festival in Beijing in 1999 ). His repertoire is documented on recordings for radio, television and on CD (Sony, Melisma, Bayer, Salto and for Peters-Verlag). Micael Gelius has been teaching piano at the University of Augsburg since November 2003 and is a regular juror at music competitions.

Discography

In addition to numerous radio recordings, the trio has so far recorded the following CDs:

2000: Piano and chamber music by Clara Schumann . ArteNova / BMG
2002: French piano trios. Coproduction by Bayerischer Rundfunk and ArteNova / BMG
2004: Portrait of the composer Dorothee Eberhardt. Cavalli
2008: Bohemian piano trios. Thorophone
2012: Joy of love & sorrow of love. Hänssler
2014: Oblívion. Thorofon
2018: Russian trios. Thorofon