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The Angell Piano Trio has established an international reputation as a leading chamber ensemble and has received much critical acclaim for its “brilliant ensemble playing and wonderfully shared vision and understanding.” (Munchner Merkur review of concert recording for Bavarian Radio)

The Trio has a very wide repertoire, ranging from well-loved core works to lesser-known masterpieces such as the Martinu Trios, which it has recorded to wide critical acclaim and championed extensively in its European tours. These have included many performances in leading series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and broadcasts for major radio stations in Munich, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, as well as for Swiss Radio in Basel and Bern.

The Trio is also associated with the works of celebrated living composers such as James MacMillan, Anthony Payne, Wolfgang Rihm as well as Jorg Widmann, who wrote his “Passacaglia” for them. The Trio gave the German premiere of James MacMillan’s trio “Fourteen Little Pictures” in a radio broadcast in Frankfurt as well as the US premiere for its debut concert at Carnegie Hall. Very well received, the New York Times wrote “It would be hard to imagine a more powerful performance”.

Based in London, the Angell Trio was formed at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies and has returned on many occasions to Aldeburgh, performing several times in the Snape Maltings and twice taking part in the coveted winter Residency series for young ensembles. Studies in the past with Andras Schiff, Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio and Siegmund Nissel of the Amadeus String Quartet have contributed greatly to the emergence of the Angell Trio. The Trio has performed at many major festivals in the UK, broadcast on Radio 3 and made many appearances in London’s concert halls including the South Bank Centre and the Wigmore Hall.