Instrumental Ensembles
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Ars Trio Di Roma |
Since its debut in 2001, Ars Trio di Roma has stood out as one of the most exciting young trios on the Italian music scene. Since winning First Prize in the prestigious International Music Competition "Premio Trio di Trieste" in Italy, Ars Trio has been invited by leading concert venues throughout Europe and also was featured on Italian TV RAI in the program “I Concerti dei Quirinale” with a national and European live broadcast by EBU-UER. The cover page of AMADEUS magazine was dedicated to the Ars Trio di Roma on the occasion of their new recording of the integral trios of Shostakovic, recently released by this magazine. Ars Trio is scheduled to tour the United States in 2009/2010.
In recent seasons, Ars Trio performed to great success throughout Europe and South America. In Italy, they were featured at such major venues as Amici della Musica of Florence, Vicenza, Verona, Palermo, Teatro Nuovo “Giovanni da Udine,” Concert Society of Parma, Società Aquilana dei Concerti “B.Barattelli,” Laudamo Philharmonic of Messina, Festival delle Nazioni of Città di Castello, Società del Quartetto of Bergamo, Gog of Genova, Bologna Festival, IUC - Instituzione Universitaria dei Concerti, Roma, Philharmonic Society of Trento and Associazione of Chamber Music of Trieste.
The trio has also appeared at Martinu Hall-Lichtenstein Palace of Prague (Czech Republic), the Hall of Columns of the Kiev Philharmonic (Ukraine), the Stephaniensaal of Graz (Austria), and has participated at international festivals in Germany, such as the Bachfest in Leipzig and the Scharwenka Festival in Luebeck, among others.
Earlier, Ars Trio took an extended tour throughout South America which included performances in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, at large theatres such as Teatro Coliseo of Buenos Aires, Teatro El Circulo of Rosario, Teatro Argentino of La Plata, Teatro Oriente of Santiago in Chile, Sala Balzo of Montevideo, Canal da Musica of Curitiba. The tour included a national radio live broadcast of the Montevideo performance and a TV broadcast for the Brazilian Radio-Televisione TV Globo of Rio de Janeiro.
On the strength of a complete repertoire, ranging from classical to modern (Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Dvorak, Ravel, Shostakovic), the Trio has always paid great attention to contemporary music as well (Copland, Shedrin, Kagel, Henze, DePablo). Recently, the Trio premiered “Freddo,” the Triple Concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra by Michele Dall'Ongaro, a composition dedicated to the Ars Trio di Roma.
Since 2005, the Ars Trio di Roma has actively taken part in musical promotion and distribution as artistic director of the festival “Musica in Ateneo-dal Barocco a oggi,” offering a high-quality classical and contemporary music festival to the younger audience of the University of Molise. In 2007 the festival moved to the Aula Magna of the University Roma Tre (Rome, Italy). Also in 2007, the trio premiered in Italy the Segundo Trio by Luis DePablo.
All three trio members reside in Rome. They studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome, receiving highest ratings and honors. Further studies led them to other prestigious music conservatories in London, Tel Aviv, Salzburg and Cologne, resulting in additional awards and honors, and concluding their studies with artist diplomas.