Trio Isimsiz

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Three outstanding musicians, three individual voices, one ensemble.

In its first Australian tour, Trio Isimsiz performs two giants of the piano trio repertoire, Schubert’s colossal Piano Trio No. 1 and Brahms’ passionate Piano Trio, alongside an exciting new voice, the ‘ear-beguiling and strikingly inventive’ Francisco Coll.

What’s in a name? Trio Isimsiz’s name comes from the Turkish for ‘without name’ or ‘anonymous’. In other words, for Trio Isimsiz it is all about the music.

Pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí  and cellist Edvard Pogossian met at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2008 and built their craft at festivals from Aldeburgh to Trondheim, and in masterclasses with András Schiff, Steven Isserlis, the Gould Piano Trio and the Takács Quartet. They’ve toured China and Argentina and given recitals at Tivoli Concert Hall, Snape Maltings, Fundacióon Juan March in Madrid and the Marianischer -Saal in Lucerne.

Three outstanding musicians, three individual voices, one ensemble.

Trio Isimsiz will perform two giants of the piano trio repertoire. Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 is a chamber work built on a grand scale, which still maintains a miraculous intimacy and lightness of being. And according to the Trio’s cellist, Edvard Pogossian, Brahms’ Piano Trio is ‘the greatest piece of all time. It’s filled with passion, love, but also nostalgia, loneliness… Any human emotion you can think of is in this piece.’

Tucked in between these masterpieces is the Australian mainstage premiere of the Piano Trio by Francisco Coll, a Spanish composer hailed as a voice of the generation. Described by The Strad as ‘ear-beguiling and starkly inventive’, it was commissioned for Trio Isimsiz by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical in Madrid, and Britten Pears Arts for the Aldeburgh Festival.  

‘To write a piano trio... has a historical connotation,’ Francisco said in the lead-up to the premiere in Snape Maltings, Suffolk. ‘I like to play with history.’

"A piano trio that already has that vital combination of unanimity of ensemble and musicianship, plus plenty of individual character and vitality."
— BBC Radio 3
"‘Francisco Coll's music displays an original and powerful sense of drama, and his ideas about music proceed from a strikingly individual and unusual mind."
— Thomas Adès

TRIO ISIMSIZ 
PABLO HERNÁN BENEDÍ violin
EDVARD POGOSSIAN cello
ERDEM MISIRLIOĞLU piano

BRAHMS Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101
Francisco COLL Piano Trio
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D898

CATHY MILLIKEN

Born in Brisbane and based in Berlin, Cathy Milliken is an international award-winning performer and composer known for her evocative instrumental and vocal works. The diversity and relevance of her output has won her international recognition as a leading composer, creative director, educational consultant and performer. A founding member of Ensemble Modern, she worked extensively with artists such as György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Fred Frith, and Frank Zappa.Milliken has composed for concert, opera, radio and film. Commissioners include Southbank Centre London, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Staatsoper Berlin and Musica Viva of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. International participatory compositions include Umculo Festival (South Africa), Future Labo (Japan), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and Munich Biennale. Awards include the Prix Italia, the Australian Art Music Award and the coveted Australia Council Fellowship, and from 2018 to 2020 she was Associate Composer of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Perth   30 September 7:30pm
Adelaide   2 October 7:30pm
Canberra   3 October 7pm
Melbourne   7 October 7pm
Newcastle   9 October 7:30pm
Brisbane   11 October 7pm
Sydney   13 October 7pm

Location

Multiple Venues

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