Trio Dichter

Trio Dichter made its recording debut in 2023 with the album An Invitation at the Schumanns', playing historical instruments. The group is composed of players with strong independent careers in the historical performance field. Trio Dichter comprises violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte, cellist Hanna Salzenstein, and pianist Fiona Mato. All three players were students in historical performance at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) in the mid-2010s: de Swarte in the class of Michaël Hentz, Salzenstein as a student of Michel Strauss and then Raphaël Pidoux, and Mato, a graduate of the Athens Conservatory who came to Paris under the auspices of the Onassis Foundation for studies with Michel Béroff and Claire Désert. Prior to the formation of Trio Dichter, the group members had already worked together for several years, co-founding the Trio Éluard. All three players also have independent careers with a variety of historical performance groups specializing in music from the Baroque to the Romantic era. Trio Dichter was formed by the same players and soon made the album An Invitation at the Schumanns' in 2023 on the Harmonia Mundi label. The group was associated with specific instruments from the historical collection of the Philharmonie de Paris: a 1700 Gagliano violin from Naples, a 1734 Guarneri cello from Venice, and a Bösendorfer piano from around 1890. The former two instruments were played with gut strings. These instruments were deployed on the album to create a sound appropriate to what might have been heard at an evening musicale at the home of Robert and Clara Schumann in the late 1840s or early 1850s. As of the summer of 2023, it was not clear whether Trio Dichter was an ongoing concern beyond the players' association with this album; the group had performances booked as part of the promotion of Invitation at the Schumanns'.
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