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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 1997, 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 1999, 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 Ensemble at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[citation needed]
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Simon Crawford-Phillips
achieving an expressive intensity that made for compelling listening.
The Guardianan enthralling figure both as a musician and a stage persona… energetic, fast, constantly and thrillingly on the front foot.
Västmanlands TidningConductor / Director / Pianist
https://www.simoncrawford-phillips.com/
Simon is a multi-festival director, conductor and renowned pianist.
A creative programmer with a passion for championing contemporary repertoire he regularly collaborates as a chamber musician with artists such as Daniel Hope, Lawrence Power, Roderick Williams and Anne Sofie von Otter in repertoire from Haydn and Schumann to Adès, Byström, Dean and Reich. Simon’s own ensembles include The Kungsbacka Piano Trio and Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble. He is the Artistic Director of the Change Music Festival in Sweden, Co-Artistic Director of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival in the UK as well as Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor of Västerås Sinfonietta. Simon’s spicy and eclectic programming is reflected in an extraordinarily varied career as a conductor/director alongside his chamber and solo engagements.
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