These performances are splendid in everyway, and the recording is equally fine.
I can’t imagine a better introduction to this long-neglected music.
 
Review of Goldmark Piano Trios CD (Centaur Record)George Chien, Fanfare Magazine, September/October 2005

The Mendelssohn Piano Trio had made the evening a triumph for Austrian composers and pianos alike.
Andrew Lindemann Malone, Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2004

The Mendelssohn Piano Trio is one of the more recent stars adding radiance to today's constellation of chamber music ensembles.
Cecelia Porter, Washington Post, Dec. 11, 2002

News
Mendelssohn Piano Trio's newest CD has been released! This new release contains music of dramatic piano trio of Bedrich Smetana as well as Piano Trio and piano quartet of Josef Suk. To purchase the CD, visit Centaur Records, call 225-336-4877 or E-mail:info@centaurrecords.com.
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2008 Chamber Music in Grantham will take place at Messiah College on August 10 - 15, 2007, Grantham, PA. Our guest artists for this year are Ann Schein and Earl Carlyss. This one week intensive Chamber Music & Composition camp is designed for age 16 and up. For more information please visit Chamber Music in Grantham or Messiah College Music Department - Chamber Music in Grantham. You can also email to Chamber Music Grantham.

Video Clips

The Mendelssohn Piano Trio's Austrian Embassy Concert is featured in The American Arts Network website. To view the video of the Andante movement of the Schubert Op.99 Piano Trio, visit The American Arts Network.

Franz Schubert Pianot Trio in E-flat
Taiwan National Concert Hall, 2002
[ Video 1] Allegro
[ Video 2] Andante con moto 1
[ Video 3] Andante con moto 2
[ Video 4] Scherzo
[ Video 5] Allegro moderato 1
[ Video 6] Allegro moderato 2

more info
Upcoming Concerts

3.2.2008 -- Blakehurst, MD.
3.28.2008 -- Quarryville, PA
4.11.2008 -- Embassy of Hungary, DC
4.24.2008 -- Normandy Farm, PA
5.4.2008 -- Chamber Music Sunday, Levine School of Music, DC
5.7.2008 -- Embassy of Germany, DC
5.11.2008 -- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Steinway Series, DC
5.18.2008 -- Quincy Village, PA
5.28-31.2008 -- TBA - NC

more info
New CD

Bedrich Smetana
(1824-1884)

Piano Trio in G minor

Josef Suk
(1874-1935)

Piano Trio
Piano Quartet
*Michael Stepniak, violist



Centaur Records
more info
Other CDs



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Currently Ensemble-in-Residence for Washington DC's Embassy Series, Messiah College as well as Chamber Music in Grantham, PA, the Mendelssohn Piano Trio is one of the most exciting ensembles on the national and international music scene. The ensemble has performed and gave master classes in a variety of venues nationwide and abroad, including universities, colleges, art academies, and music festivals, as well as an international radio feature of Voice of America. The performance highlights of the Trio's upcoming 10th season are : National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, National Gallery of the Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Embassy Concert Series, Black Rock Center of the Arts, and many others. Their fourth & fifth CDs will be released under the Centaur label with music of J. Suk, B. Smetana, and F. Mendelssohn. The Washington Post has described the group's Brahms cycle of Piano Trios and Piano Quartets presented by Embassy Series as "unfathomably beautiful", "transcendent" and "electrifying". Both the American Record Guide and Fanfare Magazine have praised the trio's recordings released on Centaur Records. Numerous classical music stations in the United States have also featured these recordings. The trio's recent performance at the National Gallery of Arts was broadcasted on NPR's "Performance Today" program.



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Last Update: February 23, 2008