Trio Gaspar
Winners of three major international competitions since their inception in 2010, Trio Gaspard is rapidly proving to be one of the most exciting young piano trios to emerge in recent years. In February 2012 The trio won 1st Prize and Special Prize for the best interpretation of a modern work at the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Weimar. They were awarded 1st Prize at the 5th International Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna in February 2012, as well as receiving the Special Prize for the best interpretation of a work by Joseph Haydn. Additionally, the Trio won 1st Prize at the 17th International Chamber Music Competition in Illzach, France in March 2011. Founded in October 2010, Trio Gaspard has already given acclaimed recitals at the Wigmore Hall, London-; the historic Schlosstheater of Schönbrunn Palace, the ORF Kulturhaus in Vienna-; and at Salle Moliere in Lyon, France. Their performances have been broadcasted for SWR (German South West Radio) , ORF (Austrian Radio) and on Korean radio and television (KBS ‘Classical Odyssey’).

Trio Gaspard, whose members hail from South Korea, Greece and the UK, works regularly with the internationally renowned musician and one of the founding members of the Alban Berg Quartet, Professor Hatto Beyerle. Mr Beyerle describes them as ‘The best Piano Trio I have ever had, or heard’, and invited them to join the European Chamber Music Academy. As members of this prestigious organisation Trio Gaspard has given concerts in Germany, France, Paris, England and Vienna and had coaching sessions with many renowned teachers, including Johannes Meissl(Artis Quartet), Gerrit Zitterbart(Trio Abegg), Ferenc Rados, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and Peter Cropper(Lindsay Quartet).

All three players are successful soloists in their own right and continue to pursue their solo careers, giving recitals and performing concertos in prestigious halls across Europe, Asia and the USA. These venues include the Konzerthaus Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Lincoln Center New York, Auditori de Madrid, Opera City Hall Tokyo, Megaron Music Hall Athens, Salle Garnier Montecarlo, Teatro Verdi di Firenze, Schubert-Saal Konzerthaus Vienna, Auditorio San Barnaba Brescia Teatro dei Rozzi Siena, Rudolfnium Hall Prague, Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Hall London. They are prize winners at international solo competitions including the Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition, the ‘Prague Spring’ Cello competition, and the Wieniawski Violin Competition.

Members from the trio have also performed individually with other chamber groups, collaborating with eminent artists such as Hillary Hahn, Mischa maisky, Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Grigory Zhislin, Tanja Tetzlaff, Radovan Vladkovich, Paul Neubauer, Bengt Forsberg, the Quartetto di Cremona and the Hermitage String Trio.

This season, the trio performed at the ‘Louis Spohr’ Festival in Braunschweig, for the SWR2 concert series in Edenkoben and made a concert tour of South Korea. Upcoming performances include a recital at the Haydn Festspiele in Eisenstadt, Austria, the Bronnbacher Musikfruehling in Germany and at the Wigmore Hall in January 2013.