The Oberon Trio was founded in 2006. Shortly after the ensemble’s premier concert, the Flensburger Tageblatt already credited the Oberon Trio with “enormous interpretive abilities, which testify to the enchanting ripeness and stylistic command of this new ensemble.” Meanwhile, Oberon Trio has given performances at the Berliner Philharmonie, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Konzerthaus Dortmund and Esterházy Palace, among others, as well as in Italy, Bulgaria, Israel, India, Egypt and the Ukraine.
Its three members are committed to offering performances of lesser-known compositions alongside with established masterpieces. Their repertoire extends from piano trios by CPE Bach and Joseph Haydn, the pioneers of the medium, to those by Jörg Widmann and Charlotte Bray, whose trios were recorded by the ensemble for the first time. Oberon Trio also collaborates regularly with chamber music partners such as Tabea Zimmermann, Ian Bostridge, Christoph Prégardien and Shirley Brill.
A special passion of the Oberon Trio is the establishment of greater intimacy between the performers and the public. Through moderated concerts and by publishing their own programme notes of performed works among other approaches, they provide listeners with an insight into their working process and the background of their interpretations.
With regard to Beethoven’s year 2020, the Oberon Trio has initiated a new project. Beethoven’s piano trios and arrangements for piano trio form a cosmos of their own within the oeuvre, which Oberon Trio tracks down in a compact form and both the significance of Beethoven for the genre and vice versa the versatility of the genre as a form of expression of Beethoven to this day explored. More details can be found here:
Oberon Trio Beethoven to the power of 3
Links
Oberon Trio’s Website
Oberon Trio on Facebook
Oberon Trio on YouTube
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 – Allegro energico e con fuoco on soundcloud