Jasper Trio
Yuliia Van, violin
Lukas Rothenfußer, cello
Jung Eun Séverine Kim, piano
The Jasper Trio is more than the sum of its parts: Yuliia Van (violin), Lukas Rothenfußer (cello), and Jung Eun Séverine Kim (piano) are united not only by their enthusiasm for piano trio literature but also by the joy of making music together and the fascination for the chamber music experience. Three individuals in search of a greater whole: Their collaboration is characterized by the joy of storytelling, the exploration of musical expression possibilities that can only be realized in an ensemble, and the investigation of new perspectives.
Founded in 2021 in Hanover, they remain connected to their "alma mater," the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, where they are mentored by Markus Becker, Stefan Heinemeyer, and Oliver Wille. They have received additional musical impulses from Bernd Goetzke, Leonid Gorokhov, Reinhard Latzko, and Krzysztof Wegrzyn.
In 2022, they were semifinalists at the International Chamber Music Competition "Franz Schubert and the Music of Modernity" in Graz and finalists at the International Chamber Music Competition in Lyon in spring 2023. In 2024, they were accepted as finalists of the German Music Competition into the concert promotion program of the German Music Competition and also received a special prize from the German Foundation Musikleben.
Their concert activities have already taken the three engaged chamber musicians to major stages in Germany, Austria, China, Korea, and Ukraine. They receive regular support through scholarships from Live Music Now, the Werner Richard-Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, the Cusanuswerk, and the German Foundation Musikleben: Yuliia Van plays on a violin by Andreas Postacchini from 1820, and Lukas Rothenfußer plays on a French cello by the luthier Jean-Laurent Clément from 1821.
Program 2: Liberation Strikes
Trio joys by Schumann and Dvořák
With moderation
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63
With energy and passion
Lively, yet not too fast
Slowly, with intimate feeling
With fire
33 Min
Break
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
Allegro ma non troppo
Allegretto grazioso
Poco Adagio
Finale. Allegro con brio
43 Min
Both Robert Schumann and Antonín Dvořák regarded the piano trios presented here as a creative breakthrough, a compositional island of bliss. Both works emerged as interruptions to ultimately unsuccessful efforts to compose an opera: the creation of Schumann's Opus 63 falls in 1847 during a time whose energies were actually focused on the struggle for the envisioned music drama "Genoveva." He interrupts this work for the conception of a piano trio, in which there is no trace of struggle, his diaries speak continuously of "trio joys." The liberated creative power gives rise to a work in which his unique ability to transform complex and deeply felt emotions into music spreads sounds full of intoxicating emotions, ranging from dark melancholy to passionate drama. His wife Clara wrote delightedly: "It sounds like someone from whom much is to be expected, so youthful and vigorous, yet in execution so masterful... The first movement is one of the most beautiful I know!"
Dvořák's opera "Dimitrij" celebrated great successes at its premiere in 1882 in Prague before the local audience but was subjected to devastating criticism by Hanslick and Dvořák's publisher Simrock. Deeply unsettled and plagued by doubt about his own work, Dvořák set to work on revisions, which, however, did not quite succeed. In spring 1883, new and exuberant creative energy seized him; he wrote his third piano trio over many weeks and was so filled with his newly blossoming creative force that, as he himself said, he "can hardly think and feel anything else." A masterful work of overwhelming intensity emerges, dramatic and of great emotional depth, proof of the great richness of ideas and the distinctively often painfully melancholic sound language of the great Czech master.
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