Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin
Wu Qian, piano
Leonard Elschenbroich, cello
SITKOVETSKY TRIO
First prizewinner of the International Commerzbank Chamber Music Award 2008 and recipients of the Nordmetall Chamber Music Award at the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival 2009, The Sitkovetsky Trio is a collaboration between three young musicians who share a passion for Chamber Music. Having met and worked together at the Yehudi Menuhin School, they founded the trio in 2007 and have emerged as one of the outstanding trios of today, receiving numerous awards and critical acclaim. They have won the Philharmonia-Martin Chamber Music Award, the Kirckman Society Award, and the Tillett Trust.
They held the Junior Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music 2007- 2008 and in 2008-2009, the trio became the first recipients of the Golubovich Fellowship at the Trinity College of Music resulting in many performances across London. in 2008, the trio made a highly successful Southbank debut, playing a recital in the Purcell Room, and was invited to play in front of Her Majesty the Queen in London. They made their debut appearance at the Wigmore Hall in November 2008 and another recital there in May, 2009. They have already been invited to give Recitals at various Festivals throughout the UK and abroad, in venues such as King’s Lynn, Brighton, St. George’s Bristol, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival, the Bath Mozartfest, the Chamber Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. All three musicians enjoy varied careers as soloists and chamber musicians in their own right.
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