Enjoying a diverse range of musical collaborations, the Trio have performed with soprano Joan Rodgers on Shostakovich’s “Seven Verses on the words by Blok” at St. George’s Bristol Shostakovich Series; with clarinettist Julian Bliss on Messiaen’s “Quatuor pour la fin du temps”; with violist Sarah-Jane Bradley on Mozart’s Piano Quartets at the Kings Lynn Festival, and have performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra. Their recent contemporary music performances include the premier of Benjamin Wallfisch’s “Syzygy” at the Wigmore Hall, John Casken’s Piano Trio and Sally Beamish’s “The Seafarer” with narrator Oliver Beamish, both at the Sound Contemporary Music Festival in Scotland.

The Rautio Trio have been recipients of many prestigious awards: Tillett Trust Young Artist Platform (2005), Maisie Lewis Wigmore Award (2006), Park Lane Group Award (2006), Musician’s Benevolent Fund Ensemble Award (2007), and were finalists and winners of the audience prize at the Parkhouse Award (2007). They were selected by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society for the Bridgewater Hall Recital Series (2007) and, following masterclasses on Schubert’s piano trios, were invited by the Florestans to appear at their festival in Peasmarsh.

The three players are prize-winning graduates from the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Royal Northern College of Music. Individually they are recipient of numerous scholarships and awards for their solo work and collectively they bring a depth of experience from working with some of the worlds most distinguished musicians in Europe and America. They were appointed Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music 2005-7 and in 2008 were the first UK  piano trio to be selected for the European Chamber Music Academy.

January 16^th Dulwich Subscription Concerts

Beethoven Trio Op.1/2

Frank Bridge Phantasie Piano Trio in C minor (1907)

Ravel Trio in A minor

www.dulwichsubscriptionconcerts.com

January 19^th Gloucester Music Society

Beethoven Trio Op.1/2

Gilbert Biberian ‘Ithaca’ Premiere

Frank Bridge Phantasie Piano Trio in C minor (1907)

Ravel Trio in A minor

www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk

*Gilbert Biberian is a composer-guitarist who has been a champion of contemporary music throughout his professional life, in both capacities, as composer and as performer, since 1969. His musical culture infuses Turkish classical and folk music with Western music to produce a distinctive compositional language. He has worked with Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, The London Sinfonietta, Lontano and many others. He has performed across the globe, in New Zealand, Canada, Venezuela and Europe.

February 9^th Fortepiano Trio Recital, Marylebone

MacLaren Hall – 6.00 pm to 6.45 pm.
School of Economic Science, 11 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ
All warmly welcome. Entrance is free.

Programme, performed on period instruments: Haydn Trio in E flat Hob XV:22 & Mozart Trio in C major KV548

The Trio is very grateful to David Ward for providing his fortepiano for this concert.

March 25th, Conway Hall 6.30pm

Haydn Trio in Eflat Hob XV:10, Beethoven Trio in E flat Op.1/1

Bridge Phantasie Trio and Faure Trio in D minor Op.120

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL

http://www.conwayhallsundayconcerts.org.uk

10^th May 1.15pm Lunchtime Recital, Kings Cross

Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op.1/3

 Recording & filming – watch this space!

5^th June 1pm Lunchtime Recital, St. Martin in the Fields

Beethoven Trio in C minor Op.1/3 & Faure Trio in D minor

9^th July Showcase Concert at Queen’s Gate Terrace, London

This is a special event to launch a period instrument project ahead of our cycle of complete Mozart Trios in 2013. Please email rautiopianotrio@googlemail.co.uk for more information.

7^th September 7.30pm Rautio Piano Trio with violist Sara Jane Bradley

Bishop Auckland Music Society, in Throne room at Auckland Castle

Beethoven Trio in C minor Op.1/3, Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K478, Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op.47.

http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/bams/page2.phtml

20^th September 7.30pm Athenaeum Club

Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Faure piano trios

(Worshipful Company of Musicians)

23-30^th September

Open Chamber Music Festival, IMS Prussia Cove.

October, Recording sessions

19^th November 7.30pm Rautio Piano Trio with violist Sara Jane Bradley

Penrith Music Club. Beethoven, Mozart & Schumann.

http://www.penrithmusicclub.com/index.html

22^nd November, 1pm Lunchtime Recital, Gravesend

Mozart & Beethoven Trio in C minor op.1/3

Recording sessions

8th February 2013, Recital at Kings Lynn

25 & 27 May 2013, Tel Aviv Museum of Arts – complete Mozart Trio’s cycle

Sarah-Jane Bradley is one of Britain’s leading viola players, a distinguished soloist and chamber musician.

“Exceptional … Bradley is an adventurous artist … every whisper of the bow was loaded with insight and intelligence..” The Strad

www.sarahjanebradley.com

The Rautio Trio are recognised for their intelligent artistry, bringing innovative programmes and diverse repertoire to their
audiences.

” Vivacious and wonderfully assured sense of ensemble” ‘In Tune’ BBC Radio 3

“ ….ravishing tone and depth of timbre … a real sense of musical line.” The Independent

Example programmes are listed here:

1: Mozart Piano Quartet (G minor), Beethoven
String Trio, Schumann E flat Piano Quartet

2: Mozart Piano Quartet (E flat), Brahms,
Faure

3: (Rautio Trio) Haydn Trio, Beethoven Ghost
or Schubert E flat Trio, Frank Bridge Phantasy
for Piano Trio, Ravel Trio.

The Trio performed Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven on period instruments at this Festival in Bridgnorth. Jan also performed Mozart Concerto K491on fortepiano with the English Haydn Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Halstead.

The theme of the 2011 Festival was in particular Joseph Haydn’s influence on the musical interaction between with Mozart, during the years 1780 to 1793, and include his visits to London. The Rautio Trio features Haydn’s wonderful Trio’s 38-40 which are dedicated to Rebecca Schroeter, a wealthy widow of Haydn’s acquaintance in London.

CHICHESTER CHAMBER CONCERTS 2011

The Rautio Trio presenting a programme of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and featured John Casken’s Trio, written in 2002. John gave a brief talk during the concert to introduce his music with short excerpts from the Trio. The Rautios have played John’s Trio several times, including at the Purcell Room for Park Lane Young Artists Platform, live on Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ and plan to record it in the near future.

SOUND FESTIVAL 2010

The trio gave three concerts in Scotland as part of the SOUND Festival, featuring ‘Seafarer’ by Sally Beamish, scored for Trio and narrator, read by actor Oliver Beamish and incorporating stunning monoprints by Jila Peacock. Sally gave pre-concert talks and you can read more in our reviews section of the website.

ST GEORGES BRISTOL – SHOSTAKOVICH SERIES WITH JOAN RODGERS

Shostakovich Seven Romances on Verses of Alexander Blok

Fired up by the chance to take part in our Shostakovich series, the Rautio Piano Trio devised a very special programme that touched on key moments from the incredible history of Russia’s past. It saw the Trio, whose players are drawn from Britain, Israel and Russia, performing alongside one of Britain’s best loved singers, Joan Rodgers. A student of Russian before attending music college, Joan Rodgers has won worldwide acclaim for her interpretations of Russian repertoire and is something of a dream pairing for Shostakovich’s haunting settings of the Seven Romances.

At the heart of the Trio’s programme were two lamenting trios by Glinka and Shostakovich. Glinka was the first Russian composer of note, and a composer who set the Russian musical scene alight. His Trio Pathétique is a beautifully proportioned piece that echoes with Russian folk melodies, its score is marked with the very personal quotation “I have known love only through the unhappiness it causes”.

A century later, Shostakovich was continuing in the by now well established Russian musical tradition, but his journey was scarred by a multitude of uprisings and wars that produced an incredible outpouring of works, from the Leningrad Symphony to the Trio we hear tonight. His Second Trio, written in 1944, is a work of captivating yet morbid intensity, a lamentation both for his close friend Ivan Sollertinsky and the victims of the Holocaust.

Here is a selection of the Rautio Trio’s repertoire, performed in recent concerts. The early works are also performed on period instruments with fortepiano. The Trio are continually adding new works to their programmes and are delighted to receive music suggestions and requests.

Haydn Complete Piano Trio

Mozart Complete Piano Trios

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios

Beethoven Triple Concerto

Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, Sonatensatz D 28

Schubert Piano Trio in B flat Op.99 D 898

Schubert Trio in E flat Op.100 D929

Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op 49

Schumann Complete Trios

Brahms Complete Piano Trios

Maurice Ravel Piano Trio

Gabriel Fauré Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120

Frank Bridge Phantasie Trio

Glinka Trio Pathetique

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op.50

Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 Op.8

Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2 in E minor Op.67

Shostakovich 7 Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok Op.127

Messiaen ‘Quatuor pour la fin du Temps

Schnittke Piano Trio (1992, after his string trio 1985)

John Casken Piano Trio (2002)

Sally Beamish ‘Seafarer’ (2000) for piano trio & narrator

Luke Bedford ‘Chiaroscuro’ (2002, revised for Rautio Piano Trio, Purcell Room performance 2006)

Judith Weir Piano Trio Two (2003/4)

‘Three Dancers’ for Piano Trio (2005), Thomas Hyde (Commissioned for Rautio Trio by Music at Duffield)

Joe Duddell ‘Nightswimming’ (2008)

‘Syzygy’ Benjamin Wallfisch 2008 (commissioned by Rautio Trio, premiered at Wigmore Hall April 2008)

Astor Piazzolla ‘four seasons’