Michael Krenn, Matthias Gredler, and Eugenia Radoslava form the TRIO SAPIACE with an extraordinary line-up: piano, cello and saxophone. Originally planned as an in-house concert at the ACFDC, the artists instead have created a digital music video about the concert recorded in the “Bank Austria Salon” in the old town hall in Vienna.
The TRIO SAPIACE music video is available for viewing on the YouTube Channel of the Austrian Embassy throughout December 2020.
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations on a theme from Georg Friedrich Händel's oratorio "Judas Maccabäus" for piano and violoncello, WoO45
Erwin Schulhoff
from the Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano/Set 4
WORLD PREMIERE
Rainer Bischof
from the seven Bagatelles for Alto Saxophone, Violoncello and Piano
1. Adagio ma non troppo-quasi poco Andante
2. adagio cantabile
3. Poco allegro ma energico
Max Bruch
from 8 pieces for piano, op. 83
5. romanian melody, andante
7. allegro vivace, ma non troppo
Nino Rota
from the Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano (arr. for soprano saxophone, violoncello and piano)
4. Allegrissimo
When: November through December, 2020
Where: online | YouTube Channel of the Embassy of Austria
ABOUT TRIO SAPIACE
Photo | (c) Trio Sapiace
After a concert in Luxembourg, where Eugenia Radoslava, Matthias Gredler and Michael Krenn had performed in two duos – cello/piano and saxophone/piano – the Luxembourg composer Albena Vratchanska, inspired by their performance, invited the musicians to play a piece as a trio, which she would compose.
This marked the beginning of the TRIO SAPIACE ensemble. Subsequently, the prominent Austrian composer Rainer Bischof wrote his “Bagatelles for saxophone, violoncello and piano” for the trio.
Although their work is currently very limited due to COVID-19, various concerts are programmed for 2021, such as at the Goethe Institute in Boston and the German Cultural Institute in San Salvador. They have also received invitations from Moscow, Warsaw, Istanbul, Prague and Milan, as well as from the festivals "Sofia Music Weeks," "Varna Summer" and "Apollonia" in Bulgaria, the "Buquet Festival" in Morocco and the "Kilkenny Arts Festival" in Ireland.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Eugenia Radoslava | Piano
Photo | (c) Eugenia Radoslava
Eugenia Radoslava gave her first solo piano recital at the age of ten and her first performance with orchestra one year later. She studied piano at the Music Academy in Sofia with A. Dikov. Further studies: piano and chamber music with N. Flores and A. Kouyoumdjian at the University of Music in Vienna as well as music pedagogy at the Music Private University of Vienna.
She won prizes at numerous international competitions, has given concerts as a solo and chamber musician as well as with orchestra. In 2014 she founded a chamber music duo with the saxophonist Michael Krenn. The duo is very successful and has participated in various international festivals.
She taught at the University of Music in Vienna and is the Austrian representative of the international educational organization "Art & Education in the 21st Century," organizes concerts, forums and benefits, produces CDs and recordings of works by contemporary composers and appears on radio and television.
Matthias Gredler | Violoncello
Photo | (c) Nancy Horowitz
Matthias Gredler was born in Munich in 1975. He studied with Heinrich Schiff and Clemens Hagen in Salzburg and Vienna. Thereafter, he continued his education with Martin Hornstein in Vienna and Miklós Perényi in Budapest after which he was taught by Rainer Schmidt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
In 2001 Matthias Gredler took over the position as cellist of the internationally renowned Vienna Piano Trio with which he gave concerts in important music centres and festivals all over the world and had his own concert cycles at Vienna’s Konzerthaus.
Numerous of his recordings have received prizes, including the ‘Echo Klassik 2010’ for Joseph Haydn Piano Trios and 2017 for Johannes Brahms Piano Trios.
Currently, he is teaching music and performing arts in Vienna and Munich. Matthias Gredler plays a violoncello by J.B. Guadagnini from 1752.
Michael Krenn | Saxophon
Photo | (c) Michael Krenn
Michael Krenn (born 1986) is Professor of Saxophone at Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and Professor of Saxophone at Innsbruck Conservatory. His performances have taken him to prestigious concert venues around the globe. He is considered one of the leading classical saxophonists of his generation in Austria and abroad. Krenn is member of the contemporary music ensemble PHACE and OENM, performing a big variety of different new compositions in major contemporary music festivals.
Among many prizes in national and international music competitions are the 2012 winner of the Yamaha Music Foundation scholarship, second prize at the 2011 Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition in Bangkok, Thailand, the Bank of Austria Artist of the Year 2011 with the Mobilis Saxophone Quartet, and winner at the "Fidelio Competition" of the Vienna Conservatory in 2009/2010.
Since 2011, he has released five CD recordings with his major ensembles as a soloist or chamber musician, showing a big variety