Oberon Trio

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.

On November 19, 2022, the Oberon Trio invited to the TRIOGIPFEL E.T.A.200. Together with the Amatis Trio, the Morgenstern Trio and the actress Stella Maria Adorf, the ensemble celebrated the poet, composer and caricaturist E.T.A. Hoffmann, whose death anniversary in 2022 was the 200th.

The trio celebrates its 20th birthday in 2026.

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VIDEO

PRESS

SELECTION OF PROJECTS 2027/28

Dates available upon request
LIEBST DU UM SCHÖNHEIT
with Ian Bostridge, tenor

The poet, philosopher, and philologist Friedrich Rückert devoted his life to developing an ideal form of language. His poetry continued to inspire composers of the 19th century long after his death—Friedrich Rückert is among the most frequently set poets in the German language.

Rückert songs by Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Clara Schumann and other composers

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–Beethoven hoch Drei (PDF)

PAST CONCERTS – A SELECTION

19 November 2022, KühlhausBerlin
TRIOGIPFEL E.T.A.200 – “Wo die Sprache aufhört, fängt die Musik an.”
Oberon Trio, Amatis Trio, Morgenstern Trio, Stella Maria Adorf

On November 19, 2022, one of the most important figures of German Romanticism was celebrated with an extended concert night: E.T.A. Hoffmann – poet, caricaturist, composer, music critic, and lover of music; creator of fantastical (dream) worlds and a sharp-witted observer of petty bourgeois philistinism – in short, the embodiment of the Romantic universal artist, whose death anniversary was commemorated for the 200th time in June 2022. Three piano trios, together with Berlin actress Stella Maria Adorf, presented a musical-literary program featuring works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms, as well as two world premieres by Frank Zabel and Britta Byström – and, of course, music and texts by E.T.A. Hoffmann.

L. v. Beethoven: Piano trio in D major op. 70/1 „Ghost“
B. Byström: Doppelgänger Music (World premiere commissioned by the Oberon Trio)
J. Brahms: Piano trio in B major op. 8
R. Schumann: Piano trio no. 2 in F major op. 80
F. Zabel: 3. Trio (The Sandman) (World premiere commissioned by the Oberon Trio)
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Piano trio in E major „Grand Trio“

“The result is an impressive plea for the piano trio genre.”

nmz, 20 November 2022