Storioni Trio

Storioni Trio

Ensemble

The Storioni Trio is managed worldwide by Leontien van der Vliet.

Contact:
E: leontien.vandervliet@interartists.nl
T: +31 6 5 24 68 707

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For over two and a half decades, the Storioni Trio revels in the joys of musical collaboration as one of the world’s leading piano trios. Two brothers who performed together from earliest childhood and their pianist soulmate form a trio whose musical adventures celebrate unique chemistry and the confidence to bring audiences to new levels of discovery. Combining the strength of their individual accomplishment as soloists, pedagogues and orchestral leaders to the chamber music front, the Storioni Trio welcomes an international audience to discovery their unique quality.

The triple Concerto specialists - Three soloists, one performance
With triple concertos at the heart of their far-reaching repertoire, the Storioni Trio moves beyond technical fluency to embrace this genre. The trio’s Challenge Classics CD, with Beethoven's Triple Concerto' and 'Archduke trio' on period instruments with Jan Willem de Vriend and his Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, received international acclaim. They perform the Beethoven Triple every season; last performances took place in May 2024 with PhilZuid and June 2024 with the Slovenská Philharmónia. The Storioni Trio’s experience with performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto as a cornerstone, has paved the way to free move forward and perform less-familiar masterpieces. In the 1930s, Alfredo Casella’s Triple Concerto Op. 56 and Martinu’s Concerto were created; both wonderful compositions that deserve a warm welcome from music lovers over the world. For the CPO label the trio recorded the triple concerto of Emánuel Moór (1907) with Deutsche Philharmonie Saarbrücken and Pablo Gonzalez. This was a favourite piece of Pablo Casals, who played it all over the world, and this is the first recording ever made of this wonderful music! This CD will be released Autumn 2024. In 2021 BIS records released a CD with the Kalevi Aho Triple concerto, which the trio recorded with the Antwerp Symphony and Olari Elts.

Commissioning new work
The Storioni Trio stands behind a mission to bring new music to the forefront. The rich repertoire for the piano trio starting with no less than Haydn piano trios expands with new and exciting works, exemplified by one of our present favorites, Pēteris Vasks Plainscapes. If we hear music that attracts us: we contact the composer. The international adventures for the Storioni Trio continues with commissions by the Polish composer Penderecki, the Finnish Kalevi Aho, the Australian Brett Dean, the American David Lang. Dutch composer Theo Loevendie who has gained a considerable following with his jazzy oeuvre wrote a piece for the two-stringed Chinese erhu and piano trio. The Finnish label BIS recorded with them and Antwerp Symphony the Kalevi Aho’s triple concerto. In the 2023-24 season, the trio will play the world premiere of Sebastian Fagerlund's triple concerto with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and the Residentie Orkest.

The Storioni Festival: a center for development and change
The trio’s festival in Eindhoven has grown a family initiative: concerts with a great community of like-minded performers who not only share in our vision of live musical performance-for-all but also believe in using music to cross boundaries. The Storioni Trio is moving forward to consider a more social space, a meaningful place for the musical story hidden behind the notes of music young and old. In Eindhoven they connect music to advanced design networks and music education platforms.

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Highlights 2024-25

20 March 2025, with Kuopio Symphony Orchestra for the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the city of Kuopio.

Performance of Sebastian Fagerlund’s Triple concerto Lanterna (2023), orchestration: Violin solo, Violoncello solo, Piano solo- 2.2.2.2- 2.2.0.0- perc.-timp.- hp.- strings

21 - 29 May 2025, Eindhoven, Storioni Festival

Highlights 2023-24:

Slovenska Filharmonia and Daniel Raiskin, Beethoven Triple concerto, June 2024 Bratislawa

PhilZuid concerts, Beethoven Triple concerto, May 2024 in Maastricht, Breda and Eindhoven

Culture Price 2024 of the Culture Fund North Brabant, May 2024 Eindhoven

The jury commended their dedication to bringing classical music closer to people, characterized by their infectious enthusiasm for performance and their diverse array of activities, including the renowned Storioni Festival in Eindhoven. "The members of the Storioni Trio blend musical expertise with organizational prowess. They are exceptional communicators," stated jury chairman Maarten Hartveldt. This award, accompanied by a €10,000 prize and a video portrait, underlines the significance of the trio’s contribution towards the cultural life in Brabant and in  The Netherlands.

Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, World Première triple concerto Lanterna of Sebastian Fagerlund, October 2023 Turku

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Reviews

“[…] the music was bathed in fun, here the homo ludens in optima forma was speaking. In the opening concert [of the Storioni Festival May 2020] the frolicking Storioni Trio - in Mendelssohn, young Beethoven and Haydn - brought a hymn to life.”

— Joost Galema, NRC Handelsblad

“Those who might not count the Triple Concerto among Beethoven’s finest works could well be swayed by this intelligently balanced, beautifully played performance.”

— Gramophone

“Fans of the Archduke Trio op. 97 will be delighted by the Storioni’s reading; crisp playing giving textures real transparency, beautiful lyricism from all three. ... this disc is a winner.”

— Early Music Review