Our 2011/2012 Season
February 12, 2012
Trio Solisti
Hailed "The most exciting piano trio in America" by The New Yorker Magazine, Trio Solisti comprises three brilliant instrumentalists - Maria Bachmann, violin, Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello, and Jon Klibonoff, piano. Trio Solisti has earned a reputation for soulful and passionate performances marked by soloistic virtuosity, seamless ensemble playing, electric energy, and thrilling abandon. These qualities have drawn high praise from such journals as The New York Times (“consistently brilliant") or The Washington Post (“unrelenting passion and zealous abandon in a transcendent performance.”)
They perform a broad spectrum of styles, and their versatility also extends to new music, most notably to Paul Moravec’s work, who composed his 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Tempest Fantasy, for Trio Solisti. And one of America's most notable critics, Terry Teachout of The Wall St. Journal proclaimed, "To my mind, Trio Solisti has now succeeded the Beaux Arts Trio as the outstanding chamber-music ensemble of its kind." Trio Solisti celebrates their 10th Anniversary in the 2011-12 season.
The trio has made critically acclaimed debuts in New York City on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series or at Town Hall’s Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., at the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, and at the internationally renowned Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy.
The members of Trio Solisti also frequently perform as solo artists with orchestras. In 2010, Mr. Klibonoff performed Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto with the Virginia Symphony, and Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto in G major with the Buffalo Philharmonic with conductor JoAnne Falletta. Ms. Bachmann performed Philip Glass's Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra with the Orchestra of the Hague in the Netherlands, the Paul Moravec's world premiere Violin Concerto at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, PA, and John Corigliano's Red Violin Concerto at Chicago's Millenium Park.