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Jack Liebeck
“His playing is virtually flawless in its technical ease, scintillating articulateness and purity of tone.” (Gramophone)
Violinist, director and festival director Jack Liebeck, possesses “flawless technical mastery” and a “beguiling silvery tone” (BBC Music Magazine). Jack has been named as the Royal Academy of Music’s first Émile Sauret Professor of Violin and as the new Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music from Jack’s playing embraces the worlds of elegant chamber-chic Mozart through to the impassioned mastery required to frame Brett Dean The Lost Art of Letter Writing. His fascination with all things scientific has included performing the world premiere of Dario Marianelli’s Voyager Violin Concerto and led to his most recent collaboration, A Brief History of Time, with Professor Brian Cox and Benjamin Northey. This new violin concerto was commissioned for Jack by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from regular collaborator and composer Paul Dean, and is written in commemoration of Professor Stephen Hawking; A Brief History of Time received its world premiere in November
In the 25 years since his debut
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Swedish chamber music ensemble
The Kungsbacka Piano Trio is a Swedishclassical chamber music ensemble.
Biography and career
[edit]The Kungsbacka Piano Trio was founded in , and is named after the Swedish town where it first performed, and where has established an annual festival. Composed of Jesper Svedberg, cello, Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano, and Malin Broman, violin, the trio has performed in a number of festivals in Europe, North and South America and Australia. The trio notably won the first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in , and has been awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's Interpret Prize.[1]
The Kungsbacka Piano Trio has recorded several discs for the Naxos and Bis labels, including works by Schubert, Schumann,[2]Haydn, Mozart and Rehnqvist. The trio has commissioned works by a number of contemporary composers, including Karin Rehnqvist, Mark-Anthony Turnage and others.[3]
The members of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio teach at Gothenburg University's School of Music where they give lectures, masterclasses and concerts throughout the year. The trio is also Associate Ens
Schumann chamber music from the Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Robert Schumann
Schumann's Third Trio is a masterpiece; and then there are those fascinating Canonic Studies
Formed in , the Kungsbacka Piano Trio (Jesper Svedberg, cello; Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano; Malin Broman, violin) won First Prize in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition; the players went on to join the Young Concert Artists’ Trust, the BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists’ scheme, and became ‘Rising Stars’ with the European Concert Halls Organisation, performing at venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Konzerthaus, Vienna. In the United Kingdom, the Trio performs at the South Bank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, LSO St Luke’s, and the City of London, Cheltenham and Edinburgh International Festivals.
The ensemble founded the innovative Change Music Festival in the town of Kungsbacka, Sweden and was awarded the prestigious “Interpretpris” from the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in recognition of its artistic achievements.
The Kungsbacka Piano Trio’s first disc on BIS was of Schumann’s Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2. Here is the wonderful Third