Trio Accanto

The Trio Accanto is a chamber music ensemble for saxophone , piano and percussion that was formed in 1994 and specializes in contemporary new music . Since then, the ensemble has premiered numerous compositions and takes part in international festivals for new music.

history

In 1994 Yukiko Sugawara (piano), Marcus Weiss (saxophone) and Christian Dierstein (percussion) formed a trio. They gave their first concert together at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 1994. Since then, the ensemble has premiered or commissioned over 40 works. Well-known contemporary composers such as Helmut Lachenmann , Vinko Globokar , Thomas Kessler , Erhard Grosskopf , Wolfgang Rihm , Mark Andre , Mauricio Sotelo , Brice Pauset , Jo Kondo and Stefano Gervasoni have written works for the trio. The ensemble's repertoire also includes contemporary works for solo trio and orchestra. In addition, the individual members of the trio also perform as soloists in chamber music concerts.

In 2012, Yukiko Sugawara left the trio. Your successor is Nicolas Hodges .

The ensemble took part in the following festivals for new music:

• Donaueschingen Music Days
• Witten days for new chamber music
• Darmstadt summer courses
• Days for New Music Zurich
• Munich Biennale
• Biennale Berlin

as well as at the Wiener Festwochen .

On August 6, 2008, the trio brought Helmut Lachenmann's Berlin cherry blossoms at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Hamburg's Rolf-Liebermann-Studio in collaboration with the NDR . An arrangement with three variations on a Japanese folk song for the premiere, as well as Karlheinz Stockhausen's posthumous piece EDENTIA for soprano saxophone and electronic music , twentieth hour from the sound cycle , a commission from NDR, with Marcus Weiss as soloist.

literature

• Program of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival from August 6, 2008

Discography (selection)

With Nicolas Hodges, piano

• Other Stories : Works by Michael Finnissy , Yu Kuwabara , Helmut Lachenmann , Martin Schüttler and Martin Smolka , Wergo 2020.
• Songs and Poems : Works by Andreas Dohmen , Hans Thomalla , Walter Zimmermann , Wolfgang Rihm and Aldo Clementi , Wergo 2018.
• Funambules : Works by Georges Aperghis , Stefan Prins , Johannes Schöllhorn and Rolf Riehm , Wergo 2016.

With Yukiko Sugawara, piano

• Works by Jörg Birkenkötter , Erhard Grosskopf , Manuel Hidalgo , Jō Kondō , Yuval Shaked and Bernfried EG Pröve , Edition Zeitklang, 2008.
• Mark Andre , through , Kairos 2007.
• Works by Mauricio Sotelo , Toshio Hosokawa , Stefano Gervasoni and Brice Pauset , assai 2003.
• Gerhard E. Winkler , Chamber Music, Edition Zeitklang ORF, 1999.

Web links

• Homepage of the ensemble
• ZDF theater channel
• Presence at the SHMV 2008
• Literature by and about Trio Accanto in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Trio Accanto at SWR.