Matthias Gredler, Cello - Stefan Mendl, Piano - Wolfgang Redik, Violin
The Strad Magazine wrote in 1995 of their "meteoric rise to fame" and in April 2000 "The remarkable Vienna Piano Trio, fast becoming the leading trio of the 21st century". In January 2001 The Times gave them the accolade of "Classical Album of the year 2000" for their latest release (Beethoven:Piano Trios op.1 Nos 2&3). "This youthful ensemble have rapidly established themselves as one of the finest chamber groups on the international circuit" The Washington post had named the trio as "one of the world's leading groups for violin, cello and piano".
Founded in 1988 by violinist Wolfgang Redik, cellist Marcus Trefny and pianist Stefan Mendl they studied extensively with the Trio di Trieste, the Haydn Trio-Vienna, the LaSalle- and Guarneri Quartets together with lessons from Isaac Stern, Ralph Kirshbaum, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson-and the Beaux Arts Trios. In 2001 Austrian cellist Matthias Gredler joined the group.
During the past seasons they have toured the USA and Canada (twice a year), Japan , Australia and New Zealand and most European countries. They have performed at prestigious festivals such as the "Beethoventage Bonn", the "Schubertiade Schwarzenberg", the Festival "Aix en Provence", the Festivals in Kuhmo (Finland), The "Festival International Lanaudiere", the "Ottawa Chamber Music Festival" (Canada) among many others.
Highlights of the upcoming season are concerts in the U.S.A. (e.g. New York-Frick-Collection, Boston, Baltimore), South-America (e.g. Buenos Aires-Teatro Colon, Santiago de Chile), performances of Beethoven's Triple-Concerto with the Munich Chamber Orchestra as part of the Beethoven Festival-Bonn as well as numerous concerts all over Europe. (England, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands). Collaborations with the actor David Bennent (Schumann-Heine) and the clarinetist/composer Jörg Widmann will lead them to Hamburg (Musikhalle), Berlin (Konzerthaus), Düsseldorf, Heidelberg and the Festivals of Schleswig-Holstein and Rheingau.
Their own annual series in the Musikverein in Vienna for the "Jeunesse Musicale" will include works by Mozart, Schumann, Shostakovich and contemporaray Austrian composers in its final year.
Starting in 2006/2007 the Vienna Piano Trio is going to have a residency at the "Wiener Konzerthaus" (Mozartsaal).
Their recordings for Nimbus Records have received highest critical acclaim. "These very musical young players seem to think and breathe as one ... this is music-making of ravishing sensitivity and tonal command" (Stanley Sadie in Gramophone 1999 on their disc of Mozart piano trios). They were Editors Choice for Gramophone for their Haydn CD, Classic CD choice for Shostakovich/Schnittke and Mozart CDs and in April 2000 The Strad magazine presented a cover story on the Ensemble.
Having started a successful new collaboration with MDG (Dabringhaus&Grimm) in 2002 (Schubert´s complete works for piano-trio,2002) the Vienna Piano Trio recorded the four piano trios by Antonin Dvorak in December 2003.
A new CD with works by Schoenberg (`Transfigured Night´), Zemlinsky and Mahler was released in November 2005.
Wolfgang Redik plays a J.B.Guadagnini 1771 on loan from the Austrian National Bank. |
