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HAYDN TRIO EISENSTADT
Harald Kosik, Piano
Verena Stourzh, Violin
Hannes Gradwohl, Cello
The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is one of the leading Austrian chamber music ensembles. The three
musicians are renowned for their interpretation of Joseph Haydn’s works as well as the other
repertoire of their genre and have also made an outstanding name for themselves with performances
of new music.
Founded in 1992 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt studied in the chamber music class of the Vienna
Academy of Music followed by participation in master classes given by the Trio di Trieste. In 1994, the
renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena bestowed on the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt the honorary diploma
for the "best piano trio“ and an award for "the best foreign contribution" of the entire festival. This
distinction led to their being admitted to the Scuola Internazionale di Musica da Camera del Trio di
Trieste, which the ensemble attended for two years.
Since 1995 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has presented an annual concert cycle at the Esterházy Castle
in Eisenstadt. In addition to regular concerts in Austria, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has been on tour all
over Europe and the USA. The ensemble has performed at music festivals worldwide such as the
Klangbogen - Festival in Vienna, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Haydn Biennale Vlaanderen in
Belgium, the Venyssel Festival in Denmark, the Haydn Festival in Japan and in the Pushkin Museum
in Moscow. In 2006 Austria celebrated Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Austrian writer Ingeborg
Bachmann. As part of the ensemble’s project “Bachmann to Music” the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
performed over 20 concerts including New York, Washington, Belgrade, Dublin and Vienna.
Since 2002 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has worked together with the Scottish singers Lorna Anderson
(soprano) and Jamie MacDougall (tenor) on presenting all 429 Folksong Arrangements composed by
Haydn both in concert and on CD. This project is supported by a large number of sponsors and
supervised by the Scottish musicologist Professor Marjorie Rycroft from the University of Glasgow and
the Haydn Institute Cologne. The first ever complete CD edition of Haydn's Folksong Arrangements
comprises a total of 19 CDs and was released in January 2009.
The Trio’s discography includes the complete piano trios of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart
(for the latter they received the prize "Wiener Flötenuhr" awarded by the Vienna Mozart Community
(Wiener Mozartgemeinde) as well as recordings of contemporary works.
For the occasion of Haydn's bicentenary in 2009 the trio initiated together with the Haydn Festival in
Eisenstadt the international composition project “D2H - Dedicated to Haydn” (www.d2h.at). 18
composers from all over the world were commissioned to write a piano trio dedicated to Haydn. The
premieres of these pieces took place in Eisenstadt in May 2009 followed by many performances
worldwide by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, musical ambassadors of Haydn's home region. All 18 new
piano trios were also played during a one week residency at Kings Place in London and published on
CD in May 2009. A full diary of engagements sees the trio perform throughout Europe including Paris
(The Louvre), Frankfurt, Hanover, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) Basel, Milan, Rome, Prague as well
as prestigious concerts in the US in New York’s Metropolitan Museum series and Washington’s
Library of Congress series. The trio also tours to Australia, South Africa, South America, India, China
and Japan giving the local premieres of the new trios alongside Haydn’s works.
season 2009/10
www.haydntrioeisenstadt.at
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