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| Vienna Piano Trio |
 Stefan Mendl, piano Wolfgang Redik,violin For almost 20 years, the Vienna Piano Trio has been performing regularly in virtually every major music center in Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Far East. The trio was founded by violinist Wolfgang Redik, cellist Marcus Trefny and pianist Stefan Mendl in 1988. Extensive studies with various highly renowned musicians paved the trio’s way to an international career soon after. The most important teachers and mentors of the ensemble include Isaac Stern, Ralph Kirschbaum and Joseph Kalichstein as well as the members of the Trio di Trieste, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Guarneri Quartet and the LaSalle Quartet. In the summer of 2001, Matthias Gredler replaced Marcus Trefny as the trio’s cellist. The Vienna Piano Trio regularly performs at music festivals such as the “Schubertiade Schwarzenberg”, the festival “Aix en Provence”, the “Mozartwoche Salzburg”, the “Beethovenfest Bonn”, the chamber-music festival in Kuhmo (Finland), and the festivals in Ottawa and Lanaudiere. In addition, the group tours worldwide, performing in major music cities such as London, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydney, Brussels, Barcelona and Berlin. From 1997 to 2006, the Vienna Piano Trio held its own annual series of concerts as part of the Wiener Musikverein’s “Jeunesse Musicale”. The 2006/2007 season marked the inaugural season of the ensemble’s residency at the “Wiener Konzerthaus”, where the trio performed four concerts for the “Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft” in the venue’s “Mozartsaal”. The Vienna Piano Trio’s discography includes works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvoøák, Shostakovich and Schnittke, all released on the British label Nimbus Records. Its recordings have earned the trio highest critical acclaim as well as several awards (Gramophone Editors Choice, BBC Radio 3 \"Record of the Month\", The London Times Classical Album of the Year). In the summer of 2002, the Vienna Piano Trio recorded all of Franz Schubert’s piano trios for the label MDG (Musikproduktion Dabringhaus & Grimm). This was followed in December 2003 by a recording of all piano trios by Antonin Dvoøák, also for MDG. In November 2005, MDG published the trio’s latest CD, including works by Schönberg (“Verklärte Nacht” / “Transfigured Night”), Mahler and Zemlinsky. In the autumn of 2007, the trio will record the piano trios by Bedøich Smetana and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In addition to its performances, the ensemble has begun teaching on an increasingly regular basis. The three musicians have given master classes at London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal College of Music, at Sydney’s Conservatory of Music, at the University of Wellington (New Zealand) as well as in Finland, France and the US. Since autumn 2007, Wolfgang Redik teaches as a professor for chambermusic at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg. Wolfgang Redik plays a violin by J.B. Guadagnini from 1772, on loan from the Austrian National Bank. Matthias Gredler plays a cello by J.B. Guadagnini from 1752. |