Musikàmera’s Season 2024 continues on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 October with a double recital by the acclaimed Atos Trio, which returns for the third year in a row from Berlin to conclude the complete trios of Schumann, Brahms and Mendelssohn begun in 2022. Founded in Germany in 2003 and consisting of Annette von Hehn on violin, Thomas Hoppe on piano and Stefan Heinemeyer on cello, the Atos Trio is an award-winning and historic German ensemble, among the most popular in major concert seasons around the world. The Trio will perform a programme under the sign of Romanticism, which opens with a performance of Robert Schumann’s Trio in F major op. 80, one of the most elaborate attempts to transform from the inside the Beethovenian structure with which every Romantic (apart from Chopin) has measured himself. 87 by Johannes Brahms, one of the works that most testifies to the composer’s exceptional inventive and constructive faculties, in the close connection between the voices of the violin and cello and the piano accompaniment, and concludes with the Trio in G minor op. 110, a work of a restless nature, among the unnoticed and splendid compositions of the late Schumann. Founded in Berlin 2003 by Annette von Hehn (violin), Thomas Hoppe (piano) and Stefan Heinemeyer (cello), the ATOS Trio has established itself as one of the best contemporary piano trios. After intensive studies with Ilan Gronich, Menahem Pressler and the Alban Berg Quartet, the Trio won the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition, followed by the BBC’s New Generation Artists Award and the Borletti Buitoni Award. Since then, the ATOS Trio has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls – from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, from the Wigmore Hall in London to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to the Berlin Philharmonic Kammersaal – with a repertoire that includes all the masterpieces of the piano trio, as well as many splendid lesser-known pages and contemporary pieces.
