Matthieu Handtschoewercker (violin)
Antoine Landowski (violoncello)
Boris de Larochelambert (piano)
Inspired by Ernest Chausson's stirring and at the same time sparkling music, which is significantly characteristic for an important era of the French art, the ensemble gave its very first concert in the course of the festival de Clairac. This was the beginning of the Trio Chausson's successful career.
In the meantime the young French Trio Chausson gave numerous concerts in Europe, USA and Brazil. Within the series Rising Stars the trio has performed in major European concert halls as well as the Carnegie Hall New York. They gave highly successful concerts at festivals as Folles Journées Nantes, La Roque d'Anthéron, Tours, Colmar, Prades, Echternach, Vendsyssel, Heidelberg and Zeist. They lately appeared in Lucerne, Frankfurt, Munich, Hannover, Grenoble, Venice, Tilburg, Klagenfurt, Metz, Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, Paris among others.
The trio has played the first performance of the Triple Concerto by Chausson/Mathieu Lamboley with the Orchestre d’Auvergne at Folles Journées in Nantes among others. The Trio Chausson offers a varied repertoire in various formations e.g. piano quartets with Mathieu Herzog and Alexander Pavlovsky, viola and quartets with soprano and trumpet.
Mirare Records has released five CD’s with trios by Chausson, Ravel, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Cécile Chaminade, René Lenormand, Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Beethoven which arnered great acclaim. The Trio Chausson received the Gramophone “Editor's Choice of the Month” for their latest CD with trios by Haydn and Hummel in 2015.
The Trio Chausson gained important impulses at the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) by collaborating with significant chamber musicians such as Hatto Beyerle, Anner Bylsma, Gérard Wyss, Eckart Heiligers, Shmuel Ashkenazy, Rainer Kussmaul and Johannes Meissl. Especially by Hatto Beyerle the trio was intensely fostered.
The Trio Chausson drew the attention as the winner of the International Chamber Music Competition Joseph Joachim in Weimar 2005 as well as laureate of the Joseph Haydn Competition Vienna 2004 with an award for the best interpretation of contemporary music.
Boris de Larochelambert and Antoine Landowski studied individually at the Conservatorium in Paris and had chamber music classes with Pierre-Laurent Aimard together. After graduating they continued studying under Claire Désert, Ami Flammer and Alain Meunier. Leonard Schreiber studied at the Purcell School of Music and Royal College of Music in London graduating with First Class honours. He has performed with the Borodin Quartet, violist Miguel da Silva, cellist Henri Demarquette and pianist Andrei Korobeinikov among others.
Season 2020/21
Read moreMirare Records has released a further album of Trio Chausson featuring Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio and "Archduke" Trio.
The Trio Chausson and Matthieu Herzog, viola perform in Wiesloch on 11 January Ferdinand Ries: Piano Quartet F minor op. 13, Ernest Chausson: Trio G minor op. 3 and Dvorak: Piano Quartet E Flat major op. 87.
The Trio Chausson and violist Mathieu Herzog are performing two concerts in Gauting on 11 January and in Icking on 13 January with C.P.E. Bach's Piano Quartet Wq 95, Schumann's Piano Quartet E flat Major op. 47 and Brahms' Piano Quartet g Minor op. 25.
The Trio Chausson will be heard in Reutlingen on 13 December with a German-French programme: Haydn: Trio G minor Hob. XV: 1, Beethoven: Trio D minor op. 70, 1 „Ghost“, Hector Berlioz: Un Bal from "Sinfonie fantastique" (trio version) and Cécile Chaminade: Trio No. 2 A minor op. 34.
The French ensemble performs at Festival Folle Journée in Yekaterinburg from 8-10 July works by Schubert, Haydn, Bartok, Chopin, Boulanger and Piazzolla.
The Trio Chausson will be heard in Klagenfurt on 17 March with Beethoven’s Trio D major op. 70/1 Ghost, Brahms‘ Trio c minor op. 101 and Wagner’s Isoldes Liebestod (transcription)
The Trio Chausson gives four concerts at the Folle Journée Festival in Nantes from 3 to 7 February to feature works by Haydn, Schubert, Liszt, Bartok, Lili Boulanger and Astor Piazzolla.
Das Trio Chausson appears in Tilburg (Netherlands) on 12 November to perform Schubert’s Notturno E flat major op. 148, Beethoven’s trio op. 70/1 “Ghost”, Ravel’s La Valse and Ernest Chausson’s Trio g minor op. 3.
The Trio Chausson gives its Danish debut with a concert at the Vendsyssel Festival on 13 July. The programme features Haydn Trio XV:15 No. 27 C major, Schubert Notturno E flat major op. 148, Ravel La Valse and Ernest Chausson Trio No. 3 g minor.
The Trio Chausson received the Gramophone Editor's Choice of the month for their latest CD with trios by Haydn and Hummel in March 2015.
The Trio Chausson performs Ernest Chausson’s Triple Concerto D major op. 21 (transcription by Mathieu Lamboley) on 13 February with the Orchestre de l’Opera de Rouen under Antony Hermus in Rouen.
Mirare Records has released the fifth CD with three piano trios by Joseph Haydn trios (Hob. XV: 1, 12, 27) and the trio by Johann Nepomuk Hummel in F major op. 22.
The Trio Chausson performs on 10 October in Burghausen (Germany) on 11 October in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg) and on 13 October in Nürtingen (Germany). The young French musicians are on tour with
Rachmaninov Trio No 1 in G minor, Félicien David Trio No 3 in C minor, Schubert Notturno E flat major and Cécile Chaminade Trio No 2 in a minor.
Read moreThe French Piano Trio played from June 24 to 27, 2014 in four concerts the triple solo part of Beethoven's Concerto with the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra.
The Flensburger Tagblatt wrote about the concert: "In ... the piece the three young musicians were focusing hearable on the delicate magic sound and a witty team play, in which they were feeding each other lines"
(Christoph Kalies, 27.06.2014).
Beethoven: "Ghost" Trio D major op. 70/1
Beethoven: "Archduke Trio" B flat major op. 97
Mirare (2020)
Joseph Haydn: Hob. XV: 1, 12, 27
Johann Nepomuk Hummels: Trio in F minor, op. 22
Mirare/Harmonia Mundi (2014)