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.
The trio celebrates its 20th birthday in 2026.
The main representation of the Oberon Trio is handled by Cornelia Rothkegel-Hartke.
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„Sehr fein, leicht und voller Spielfreude musizierte das Oberon Trio!“
Unnaer Zeitung, 17. Januar 2023
„Zuhören einfach ein Genuß!“
Passauer Neue Presse, 16. Juli 2022
„Haydn und Schumann klingen frisch wie am ersten Tag, Hosokawas spirituelle Dimension ist geradezu eine Offenbarung, und Copland stringentes Doppelspiel mit Zwischentönen gelingt grandios.“
Crescendo, Februar 2020
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
Dates available upon request
FOLK SONG BY HAYDN AND BEETHOVEN
Oberon Trio / Ian Bostridge, tenor
The Oberon Trio and tenor Ian Bostridge are a well-established team. This is especially true when it comes to their joint programs featuring arrangements of English, Scottish, and Welsh folk songs for voice and chamber music by Beethoven and Haydn.
With songs and trios by L. v. Beethoven and J. Haydn
“Listening is simply a delight.”
Passauer Neue Presse, 16 July 2022
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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
27 June 2020, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele
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Oberon Trio / Christoph Pregardién, tenor
J. Haydn: Folk Song Arrangements / Trio in E-flat major Hob. XV:29
L. v. Beethoven: Folk Song Arrangements / Trio in B-flat major op. 11 (Gassenhauer)
