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| Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio |
| Origin | New York City |
| Genres | Classical |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Members | Jorge Bolet; Isaac Stern; others |
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio formed in 1977 in New York City and is an American piano trio comprising a pianist, violinist, and cellist that has become a leading ensemble in chamber music, touring globally and recording extensively. The trio has collaborated with soloists, composers, and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, while maintaining residencies at institutions such as the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, and the Royal College of Music.
The ensemble was founded amid the late-20th-century chamber music renaissance that featured ensembles like the Beaux Arts Trio, the Guarneri Quartet, and the Juilliard Quartet, with early appearances at venues including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the Kennedy Center. Its formation coincided with broader cultural currents involving presenters such as Caramoor, Tanglewood Music Center, and the Avery Fisher Hall programming, and the trio benefited from mentorship by figures including Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, and Yo-Yo Ma. Touring circuits encompassed festivals such as Aldeburgh Festival, Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and appearances on broadcasters like the BBC, National Public Radio, WQXR, and Deutsche Grammophon affiliates.
Founding and long-term members brought distinguished pedigrees from conservatories such as the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the Moscow Conservatory, and the Royal Academy of Music. Core members have included artists trained with teachers from lineages connecting to Arthur Rubinstein, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Claudio Arrau, and Artur Schnabel, and collaborators have included soloists like Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Guest pianists, violinists, and cellists have come from ensembles such as the Emerson String Quartet, the Takács Quartet, the Orion String Quartet, and the Juilliard Quartet.
The trio’s repertoire spans Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary works including compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Claude Debussy, as well as 20th- and 21st-century composers such as Béla Bartók, Elliott Carter, Samuel Barber, Paul Hindemith, Aram Khachaturian, Alberto Ginastera, Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and Thomas Adès. The trio has commissioned and premiered works by composers including Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Shulamit Ran, Leon Kirchner, Paul Chihara, Richard Danielpour, John Harbison, and Bright Sheng, and participated in collaborative premieres at festivals like Tanglewood and institutions such as Mannes School of Music and the Royal Festival Hall.
Recordings by the ensemble appear on labels including Nonesuch Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, BIS Records, Telarc, Naxos, and RCA Victor, covering standard trios by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Dvořák alongside contemporary commissions by Elliott Carter and John Corigliano. Broadcasts have been featured on BBC Radio 3, National Public Radio, WNYC, Radio France, and Deutschlandradio Kultur, and the trio has been profiled in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Gramophone (magazine), and BBC Music Magazine.
Over decades the ensemble has received awards and honors from institutions including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Naumburg Foundation, the Grammy Awards, the Hudson River Museum, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and artists associated with the trio have been recipients of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. The trio’s recordings and performances have been recognized by critics at The New Yorker, Opera News, Strings Magazine, and by international juries at competitions such as the Leeds International Piano Competition and the Tchaikovsky Competition for affiliated members’ solo achievements.
The trio has maintained long-term educational engagements with conservatories and universities including the Eastman School of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), Manhattan School of Music, and the Yale School of Music, offering masterclasses, residencies, and lecture-recitals. Outreach has included family concerts at organizations such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, community programs with Lincoln Center Education, school partnerships with Young Audiences, and workshops at festivals including Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Spoleto Festival USA.
The ensemble’s influence is visible in the programming choices of presenters like Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and Royal Festival Hall, in the commissioning practices of ensembles and institutions such as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the American Composers Orchestra, and in the mentoring lineage connecting to pedagogues at Curtis, Juilliard, and Royal Academy of Music. Its discography and premieres have contributed to trio repertory expansion alongside the impact of ensembles like the Beaux Arts Trio and the Borodin Quartet, shaping interpretations recorded by labels including Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical and influencing younger chamber groups emerging from academies such as KRONOS Quartet alumni programs and conservatory fellowship initiatives.
Category:American chamber music groups Category:Piano trios Category:Musical groups established in 1977