The Tecchler Trio
Benjamin Engeli, piano
Esther Hoppe, violin
Maximilian Hornung, violoncello
The Tecchler Trio is one of today’s leading chamber music ensembles. By winning 1st Prize at the ARD Music Competition 2007 they established their reputation as probably the most exciting piano trio to appear in the last decade. It’s only the fourth time in the competition’s 56 year old history that a 1st Prize has been given to a piano trio.
Just a few months after Benjamin Engeli (piano), Esther Hoppe (violin) and Maximilian Hornung (cello) started their mutual work together, the Tecchler Trio was rapidly establishing a reputation as an exciting young ensemble, praised for their natural musicianship as much as for their stylistic versatility. In its short history the Tecchlers have been highly succesful at several music competitions: they were winners of the German Music Competition in Bonn 2004, the prestigious "Prix Credit Suisse“ 2004 and the Migros Chamber Music Competition in 2005. Further top prizes were given to the trio at the International Music Competitions in Vienna (2004) and Melbourne (2007).
Since 2004, they have been performing in venues such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Stadtcasino Basel, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Wigmore Hall London, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, Herkulessaal Munich, Vienna Konzerthaus or Zurich Tonhalle. They have been invited to music festivals in Delft (Holland), Davos, Lucerne, Ludwigsburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ravinia (Chicago), and Rheingau, and performed in France, Poland, Australia and the United States.
They conducted radio recordings in Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Australia and the United states and made their Debut-CD in 2005 with the trios by Tchaikovsky and Ravel, published by the German label Ars Musici. Further CDs have been released by Concentus Records – a live recording with Trios by Schumann and Dvorak – and by Venus Music – a brand new recording of the late Haydn Trios ready for the 200th anniversary of the composers death in 2009.
The Zurich/Berlin-based ensemble first received important artistic advice from Thomas Grossenbacher at the Musikhochschule Zurich, and furthermore worked with musicians such as Anner Bylsma, Miriam Fried, Ralf Gothoni, Bernard Greenhouse, Frans Helmerson, Kim Kashkashian, Menahem Pressler and Gérard Wyss. The trio is named after the cellist’s instrument built in 1705 by the Italian violin maker David Tecchler.
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