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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jonathan D.\nMusicians: Qian Wu\n\n7 PM Doors & Pre-R
 eception\n8 PM Recital\n9 PM Post-Reception\n\n_____\n\n**Sitkovetsky Trio
 **: Perkin & Beethoven\n\n[Gotham Arts](https://gothamarts.net) in collabo
 ration with [Groupmuse](https://www.groupmuse.com/) is delighted to presen
 t an intimate private chamber music performance by the internationally acc
 laimed [Sitkovetsky Trio](http://sitkovetskytrio.com/)\, consisting of vio
 linist [Alexander Sitkovetsky](https://alexandersitkovetsky.com/)\, cellis
 t [Isang Enders](https://yhartists.com/en/artist/isang-enders-cello)\, and
  pianist [Wu Qian](http://www.wuqianpiano.com/)\, featuring Sam Perkin's *
 Freakshow* and Beethoven's celebrated "Archduke" Piano Trio.\n\nWine will 
 be served.\n\n**Program:**\n\nPERKIN *Freakshow*\n\nBEETHOVEN Piano Trio i
 n B-Flat Major\, Op. 97 "Archduke"\n \n__________\n\n**About the Sitkovets
 ky Trio**\n\n[Watch the Sitkovetsky Trio perform Robert Schumann's Phantas
 iestücke\, Op. 88](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfOykV0Sjts)\n\nThe Si
 tkovetsky Trio has established itself as an exceptional piano trio of toda
 y. Their thoughtful and committed approach has brought the ensemble critic
 al acclaim and invitations to renowned concert halls around the world incl
 uding the Amsterdam Concertgebouw\, Frankfurt Alte Oper\, Palais des Beaux
  Arts\, Museé du Louvre\, l’Auditori Barcelona\, Wigmore Hall and Linc
 oln Center New York.\n\nRecently\, the trio received the Chamber Music Awa
 rd of the BBC Music Magazine. Furthermore\, they are first prize-winners o
 f the International Commerzbank Chamber Music Award and recipients of the 
 NORDMETALL Chamber Music Award at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival\, as
  well as the Philharmonia-Martin Chamber Music Award. They have been suppo
 rted by the Hattori Foundation\, the Musicians Benevolent Fund\, the Fidel
 io Trust and the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation. Last season\, they rece
 ived a generous funding from the Initiative Musik as part of the Neustart 
 Kultur programme launched by the German government.\n\nIn 2014\, the trio 
 released their first recording for BIS Records with works by Smetana\, Suk
  and Dvořák to much critical acclaim. This led to further releases of 
 works by Brahms and Schubert on the Wigmore Live Label and another recordi
 ng for BIS of Mendelssohn Trios. They have also recorded Beethoven’s Tri
 os Op. 1 and Op. 70\, and Allegretto in B-flat major for Piano Trio\, WoO 
 39. The album received a Diapason d’Or ARTE and was released as Vol. 1 o
 f a complete Beethoven cycle. In July 2021\, the Trio’s fifth album\, of
  Ravel’s Piano Trio and Saint-Saëns Trio No. 2\, was released to great 
 critical acclaim and received a Supersonic Award from Pizzicato Magazine.\
 n\nLast season saw the trio on tour in South America\, with concerts in Bo
 gotá\, Lima and Sao Paulo\, and in the USA\, at Lincoln Center in New Yor
 k\, in Los Angeles and Seattle. Concerts throughout Europe included the El
 bphilharmonie Hamburg\, the Alte Oper Frankfurt\, Wigmore Hall London\, Ph
 ilharmonie Haarlem\, venues in Bilbao and Barcelona\, a project with Messi
 aen's *Quatuor pour la fin du temps* with Andreas Ottensamer and Pablo Bar
 ragán\, and a return invitation to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Highlight
 s of the 2023/2024 season include concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus\, the
  Brucknerhaus Linz\, the Cologne Philharmonie and the Elbphilharmonie. The
 y are also on tour in the USA and Italy and will perform Ludwig Van Beetho
 ven's Triple Concerto with the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Munich Symp
 hony Orchestra.\n\nTheir 2023-24 tours of the UK and Ireland will include 
 a return to London’s Wigmore Hall\, concerts in Chichester\, Lewes and H
 aslemere\, festival appearances at the Two Moors festival in Devon\, Bath
 ’s Mozart Festival\, returns to the Surrey Hills\, Buxton and West Wickl
 ow festivals.\n\nAlexander Sitkovetsky plays the 1679 ‘Parera’ Antonio
  Stradivarius violin (Cremona\, 1679)\, and Isang Enders plays a cello by 
 Carlo Tononi (Venice\, 1720). Both instruments are kindly loaned by the J.
  & A. Beare International Violin Society
LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York
SUMMARY:Sitkovetsky Trio: Perkin & Beethoven
URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/13983-sitkovetsky-trio-perkin-beethove
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