Trio Parnassus

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Trio Parnassus is a piano trio founded in 1982 by the pianist Friedemann Rieger, the violinist Wolf-Dieter Streicher and the cellist Michael Groß .

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The Trio Parnassus is named after Mount Parnassus , which in Greek mythology is dedicated to the god Apollo and the home of the muses . Just a few months after they were founded, the three young artists won first prize at the chamber music competition in Colmar . Concert engagements, radio recordings and CD recordings for the label Musikproduktion Dabringhaus & Grimm followed. The trio soon gained a permanent place in the international concert scene. It was always a concern of the three musicians to include lesser-known or wrongly forgotten works of the trio literature in their concert programs in addition to the usual repertoire. In 1989 Chia Chou joined the trio as the new pianist; In 2005, Yu Yamei took over the violin.

In contrast to other ensembles, the Trio Parnassus avoids the historicizing that came into fashion in the 1970s , but has developed its own, very unmistakable sound identity using modern instruments.

The complete recording of Mozart's piano trios was praised by the BBC as the definitive interpretation on modern instruments. No less successful are the recordings of all the trios by Beethoven , Brahms and Schumann as well as a good dozen other composers, including the works of Édouard Lalo , Joseph Rheinberger , Philipp Scharwenka and Woldemar Bargiel as first recordings . A special discovery was the chamber music of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia , for which the Trio Parnassus has released three CDs.

In 2001 the Trio Parnassus received the Echo Klassik of the Deutsche Phono-Akademie for their complete recording of the piano trios by Robert Schumann , which the ensemble again honored in 2008 - this time for the interpretation of the piano trio in D major op. 1 and the suite op. 23 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold .

The trio gives concerts all over Europe and America, where in October 1996 a. a. has appeared as a guest on the Great Performers Series at New York's Lincoln Center . The trio is a frequent guest at German radio stations because they have repeatedly integrated new and unknown pieces into their programs and have thus already revived many masterpieces. In 1999 the Trio Parnassus was chosen by the British magazine Classic CD as one of the two leading piano trios of our time.

At the beginning of 2013, the pianist Chia Chou was replaced by his Finnish colleague Henri Sigfridsson . Since 2016 the Trio Parnassus has been playing in the line-up with Johann Blanchard, Julia Galić and Michael Groß. The new formation has also already recorded their first CD.

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The pianist Johann Blanchard was born in Romans-sur-Isère in 1988 and has lived in Germany since 1992. At the age of six he received his first piano lessons from Sigrid Lehmstedt, which he continued in 1998 at the Schloss Belvedere music school in Weimar. During this time he played his first concerts in solo and chamber music as well as with orchestra and received several prizes and awards. In 2006 he made his way to Rostock, where he graduated with honors at the University of Music and Theater in the class of Matthias Kirschnereit and Karl Heinz Will. At the same time he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the class of Stefan Arnold. He received further suggestions from, among others, Abdel Rahman El Bacha , Michel Béroff, Bernd Goetzke, Pavel Gililov , Elisabeth Leonskaja , Bernardringenissen and Claudius Tanski. During his studies he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and received numerous prizes and awards in international competitions (including Piano Campus in Pontoise / Paris, Palma D'Oro in Italy, Ferrol in Spain and Unisa in South Africa). Johann Blanchard has given concerts all over Europe (including Konzerthaus Berlin , Wiener Musikverein , Paris, Prague), the USA (New York, Los Angeles), South America (Asuncion, Buenos Aires), South Africa (Johannesburg, Pretoria) and China. As a soloist he has appeared with the North German Philharmonic , the Polish Chamber Philharmonic and the New Westphalia Philharmonic . He was heard several times on the radio on NDR Kultur , Radio France and ORF. In 2015 he received the German Record Critics' Prize .

The violinist Julia Galić, born in Tübingen, began her violin studies with Dierick, Baynov and Agostini . She completed her artistic postgraduate studies and the soloist class at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Ingolf Turban with distinction. She attended master classes a. a. with Valery Gradow , Yfrah Neaman and Igor Ozim . As a chamber musician, she gained experience with the Melos , Vermeer and La Salle Quartet . She was a finalist at the German Music Competition in 1999. As a soloist, she performed a. a. with the Moscow Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Lithuanian and Polish Chamber Orchestras, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Tübingen Chamber Orchestra. Her repertoire includes the traditional solo and Chamber music works also seldom played works that have been recorded by Südwestrundfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk . In the 2011/2012 winter semester she was appointed professor at the Munich University of Music and Theater .

Michael Groß was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and the German Music Council . His studies with Ludwig Hoelscher and Antonio Janigro at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Stuttgart and with Pierre Fournier in Geneva were followed by prizes at the international chamber music competition Maria Canals in Barcelona, ​​the competition of the German music academies and first place in the Florentine Premio Vittorio Gui in 1980. Michael Groß has been since 1979 Solo cellist at the Stuttgart State Opera and in 1983 was one of the founding members of the Trio Parnassus, with whom he has performed throughout Europe, Canada and North America. He is also artistic director of the Parnassus Academy, which has so far recorded works by Erwin Schulhoff , Vincent d'Indy and Frank Bridge as well as a CD with works by Max Reger .

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