May 20, 2007 - CD of the Week

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Trio con Brio Copenhagen, formed by the Korean sisters Soo-Jin Hong and Soo-Kyung Hong and the Danish pianist Jens Elvekjaer, drew attention by the sensational success at the ARD-competition in Munich. The trio belongs since its formation in Vienna 1999 to the most exciting young piano trios performing today. Critics especially praise the trio for “sparkling joy of life”, “magic dialogue” and the virtuoso technique of the ensemble.

In September 2005 the Trio con Brio Copenhagen received the prestigious Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award in USA. The award includes a CD-recording and an extensive tour of 20 major United States venues including Carnegie Hall, New York.

In 2006/7 the trio will go on several USA/Canada tours including a cd-recording and 25 concerts a.o. in New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Detroit, Jacksonville and Palm Beach. Furthermore tours in Germany with concerts a.o. in HR Sendesaal Frankfurt, NDR Hamburg, Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and Bayreuth and a tour in Holland with concerts in Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Maastricht and concerts at Newbury Festival, Lake Side Festival and Leamington Festival, England, at Bergen Festspil and Kristiansand Festival, Norway, at Båstad Festival, Sweden, in Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen and in major cities in Denmark are scheduled.

In 2007 the trio will perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Radio Concert Hall Copenhagen, Denmark, with the Korean Prime Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul Arts Center and Gunpo Culture Center, Korea and with the South Jutlands Symphony Orchestra in Sønderborg, Denmark and Flensburg, Germany. 

Highlights of past years´ performances are Konzerthaus Berlin, Herkulessaal Munich, Max-Josephs-Saal der Residenz Munich, Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Vienna, Seoul Arts Centre, Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Musikhalle Hamburg, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Germany, Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria, Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, Teatro Verdi Trieste, Italy and Teatro Olimpico Vicenza.