Piano duo Gröbner & Trisko
The piano duo Gröbner & Trisko is an Austrian duo of two pianists that has been composed of Johanna Gröbner and Veronika Trisko since 1996 .
Career
In 1996 the duo played the first evening for two pianos in the Augustinus Hall of Klosterneuburg Abbey and in the same year they made their first television appearance. Two years later, a concert tour through the Czech Republic followed in 1998, including in the Rudolfinum in Prague . In 2006 and 2007 they took part in the Brahms Festival in Mürzzuschlag and in 2007 gave a guest performance at the “European Culture Days” in Frankfurt am Main. In 2009 they made their debut in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein with the concert for 2 pianos and percussion by Béla Bartók with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Pascal Rophé. In 2010 they appeared as soloists with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai under Luca Pfaff in the Auditorio Toscanini Turin. In September of the same year they played as finalists in the ARD competition with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Poppen in the Herkulessaal in Munich.
In addition to studying concert at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Martin Hughes, the joint chamber music studies at the Vienna Conservatory with the members of the Altenberg Trio Vienna, which they graduated with honors in 2005, were particularly formative for both artists . They received further important impulses from master classes with artists such as András Schiff , Paul Badura-Skoda , Marialena Fernandes and Delle-Vigne. The artists are winners of the ARD International Music Competition 2010 . Numerous invitations have taken her to the USA ( Carnegie Recital Hall , New York), Mexico, the Czech Republic ( Rudolfinum (Prague) ), Italy (Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai - Turin), Hungary, Germany ( Herkulessaal Munich) and Norway.
Awards
- Finalists ARD competition Munich 2010
- Special price for the best interpretation of the commissioned composition
- 1st Prize: IBLA Grand Prize Competition - Sicily
- 1st Prize: 1st Twenty Fingers Piano Duo Competition - Rome
- 1st prize at the Allegro Vivo International Chamber Music Festival Prize
- 1st prize: Musica Juventutis - Wiener Konzerthaus
- 1st prize: Fidelio competition of the Vienna Conservatory
- 1st prize: Prima la musica
- International radio competition Concertino Praga
- Concorso Internazionale Provincia di Caltanissetta
- Grieg competition in Oslo.
repertoire
The repertoire ranges from pieces played for four hands to music for two pianos. These include Beethoven's original works for piano four hands, F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Andante con Variazioni Op. 3a, WA Mozart's KV 357, KV 358, KV 381, KV 497, KV 521, Spanish love songs (for one and more voices with accompaniment of the piano for four hands), JS Bach's Concerto for two pianos BWV 1060, Bartók's Sonata for two pianos and percussion and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana , version for two pianos and percussion .