TRIO SOLISTI
Comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists - violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff - Trio Solisti has earned a national reputation for its passionate, committed, and adventurous performances marked by exquisite individuality of expression and seamless ensemble playing. These qualities have drawn high praise from such journals as The New York Times (“...consistently brilliant....and compelling.”) and The Washington Post (“...zealous abandon in a transcendent performance.”) The Trio’s cutting edge verve and mastery across a wide spectrum of styles has garnered superlatives not often encountered in the piano trio genre. This versatility also extends to new music, most notably to the works of 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec. Other commissioned works for Trio Solisti include a work by one of America's most sought after young composers,
Kevin Puts, who writes a work for Trio Solisti with guest clarinet to be premiered in 2012.
Trio Solisti's third CD, Pictures at an Exhibition, was released on Endeavour Classics in the fall of 2007. The disc includes Trio Solisti's own arrangement of Mussorgsky's monumental Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel's masterly Piano Trio in A minor. This CD prompted one of America's most notable critics, Terry Teachout of The Wall St. Journal, to proclaim, "...an ingenious arrangement of Mussorgsky's masterpiece...and a flawless performance of Ravel's luscious A Minor Piano Trio by the group that to my mind has now succeeded the Beaux Arts Trio as the outstanding chamber-music ensemble of its kind."
Trio Solisti has two new CDs scheduled for release in 2008: CAFE MUSIC, to
be released in fall 2008, includes virtousic and popular works by Piazzolla, Schoenfield, Turina and Gershwin; and in June 2008, the trio's world premiere recordings of John Anthony Lennon's Sirens and Paul Moravec's Passacaglia on the Bridge label as part the the American Academy in Rome CD series.
Previous recordings by Trio Solisti are an all-Brahms CD for Marquis Classics, and a CD of music by Paul Moravec on NAXOS American Classics. This release includes the world premiere recording of Moravec’s 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning work composed for Trio Solisti, Tempest Fantasy, with guest clarinetist David Krakauer. “Trio Solisti Explores Beethoven”, a documentary video, was released by Videos for Arts and Humanities (www.films.com) in 2003. Directed by Academy Award nominee Josh Aronson, the documentary traces Trio Solisti’s interpretive process in rehearsals and performances of Beethoven’s “Ghost” and “Archduke” trios.
Highlights of 2008 - 2009 include performances at The Kennedy Center (Dec. 2009) where they make their debut on the prestigious Fortas Chamber Series,
at New York's Merkin Hall,
and at numerous festivals including The Caramoor Festival, The Moab Festival in Utah, Maverick Concerts and Cooperstown Festivals in New York, Chappaquidick Festival in Massachusetts, Grand Canyon Festival in Arizona, and Telluride MusicFest in Telluride, CO. Trio Solisti is the founding ensemble of Telluride MusicFest which celebrates its' sixth anniversary in 2008.
Trio Solisti has made critically acclaimed debuts in New York City on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series and at Town Hall’s Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, at The Kennedy Center (for WPAS) in Washington, D.C., the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, and at the internationally renowned Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy. They have performed as guests of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, at Seattle's Meany Hall, La Jolla's Revelle series, Milwaukee Symphony's Pabst Series, Troy Chromatic Concerts, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, and have toured in Canada.
Trio Solisti has appeared on the nationally broadcast radio show “St. Paul Sunday” and has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” in numerous live performances from around the U.S. They have been presented in multi-concert series by New York’s famed Morgan Library and by the St. Louis Museum of Art. Trio Solisti has been ensemble-in-residence for six years at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. www.triosolisti.com
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