Sitkovetsky Trio
Piano Trio
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, pianist Wu Qian, and cellist Richard Harwood form the Sitkovetsky Trio. Since 2007 they have embarked on a career that has seen them perform at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall in London.
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Program
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, pianist Wu Qian, and cellist Richard Harwood form the Sitkovetsky Trio. Since 2007 they have embarked on a career that has seen them perform at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall in London. They perform trio works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Dvořák.
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 70
Poco sostenuto – Allegro ma non troppo
Allegretto
Alegretto ma non troppo
Finale. Allegro
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Allegro energico e con fuoco
Andante espressivo
Scherzo: Molto allegro quasi presto
Finale. Allegro appassionato
INTERMISSION
Anton Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65
Allegro ma non troppo
Allegretto grazioso
Poco adagio
Finale: Allegro con brio
About the Artists
First prize winners of the International Commerzbank Chamber Music Award 2008 and recipients of the NORDMETALL Chamber Music Award at the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival 2009, the Sitkovetsky Trio is a collaboration between three young musicians who share a passion for Chamber Music. Having met and worked together at the Yehudi Menuhin School, they founded the ensemble in 2007 and have since emerged as one of the outstanding Trios of today, receiving numerous awards and critical acclaim.
As a Trio they have won the Philharmonia-Martin Chamber Music Award, the Kirckman Society Award, the Tillett Trust Award and are supported by the Hattori Foundation, the Fidelio Trust, the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation. They held a Junior Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music in 2007-2008 and 2008-2010, and were recipients of the Golubovich Fellowship and the Richard Cairnes Junior Fellowship for Chamber Music at Trinity Laban College of Music, resulting in many performances and educational worships at the College and across London. The Trio has most recently been awarded a Fellowship at the Royal Northern College of Music for the 2012-13 season.
The Sitkovetsky Trio made its debut appearance at the Wigmore Hall in November 2008, resulting in re-invitations in May 2009 and May 2012. The Trio made its highly successful Southbank debut playing a recital in the Purcell Room and was subsequently invited to play in front of Her Majesty the Queen in London. The Trio has already been invited to give recitals at various festivals throughout the UK and abroad, in venues such as Kettle’s Yard, St. George’s Bristol, Wigmore Hall, Frankfurt Alte Oper, the Chamber hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. The Trio has on ongoing relationship with the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival and was resident at the Festival’s 2012 Chamber Music week, where they performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchester under Gabriel Feltz. In 2009 and 2010 the Trio also performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto on tour with the Orchestra of the Swan and the Münchner Symphoniker. 2013 saw the Trio undertake its highly successful debut tour of China, which featured concerts in Beijing, Shanghai Tianjin and Guangzhou.
Watch and Listen
The Sitkovetsky Trio perfoms the third movement from the Piano Trio in
G minor, Op. 15 by Bedřich Smetana.