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Sitkovetsky Trio
Biography
The Sitkovetsky Trio has established itself as an outstanding piano trio. With its thoughtful and committed approach, the ensemble is critically acclaimed and has been invited to perform in the most prestigious concert halls worldwide - including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Auditori in Barcelona, Wigmore Hall in London and the Lincoln Center in New York. The ensemble has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes, such as the BBC Music Magazine Chamber Music Award, the NORDMETALL Chamber Music Prize of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival, the first prize of the Commerzbank International Chamber Music Competition and the Philharmonia-Martin Chamber Music Award. It has also received support from well-known institutions such as the Hattori Foundation, the Musician’s Benevolent Fund, the Fidelio Trust and the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation. The trio was also supported by the Music Initiative as part of the German Neustart Kultur funding program.
The 2024-2025 Season will see the ensemble perform on some of the world’s most important stages with concerts in the US, Israel, Germany. Netherlands and London’s Wigmore Hall, Their last concert at the Wigmore Hall in July 2024, was described by The Strad as “magnificent” and with “heart-filled lyricism”.
The Trio opened the season as the resident ensemble of the Beethovenfest Bonn, where it made an impression with three multi-faceted concerts and two premieres. Highlights included both a celebrated performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto and the World Premiere of Ferran Cruixent‘s Trinity with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Since 2014, a large number of recordings by the Sitkovetsky Trio have been released on the BIS Records label, including a compilation with works by Smetana, Suk and Dvořák, which was enthusiastically received by critics. This was followed by further releases on the Wigmore Live label and recordings of Mendelssohn piano trios, as well as an album juxtaposing Ravel and Saint-Saëns, which was awarded the BBC Music Magazine Award, among others. The trio released the third volume in their Beethoven cycle at the beginning of the 2024/2025 season. The album was named “Album of the Week” by NDR, Germany’s Public Radio broadcaster, and The Times named it one of the “Best Classical Albums of 2024.
Alexander Sitkovetsky plays the Antonio Stradivarius violin “Parera” from 1679, generously provided to him by the Beare’s International Violin Society. Isang Enders plays a cello by Carlo Tononi (Venice, 1720), on loan from the J. & A. Beare Violin Society.