Klaviertrio Hannover

The Klaviertrio Hannover chamber ensemble has rediscovered and recorded unknown works by composer Emilie Mayer. The group has also recorded music by Beethoven, and in performance, it tends to program music appropriate to special occasions. The Klaviertrio Hannover (Hannover Piano Trio) was founded in the mid-2010s by pianist Katharina Sellheim, already an experienced chamber player through her work in the Sellheim Duo with her brother, violist Konstantin Sellheim. She is also active as a collaborative pianist working with baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, among other prominent figures. Katharina Sellheim joined with violinist Lucja Madziar, concertmaster of the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester Hannover, and Johannes Krebs, solo cellist of the Bremen Philharmonic. In its early days, the group received instruction from the Jean-Paul Trio. The Klaviertrio Hannover made its debut at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg in September of 2018. The following year, the group made its recording debut on the Genuin label in an album of Beethoven's piano quartets, joined by Konstantin Sellheim on viola. In concert, the group has often devoted itself to music for special occasions, playing, for example, Leonard Bernstein's rarely performed Piano Trio of 1937 to mark that composer's 100th birthday. For the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth year in 2020, the Klaviertrio Hannover planned a season of Beethoven performances; those plans were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the group has played some of the concerts since returning to the stage. The trio attracted wide attention for its performances of three piano trios by 19th century composer Emilie Mayer, part of a group of nine chamber works by Mayer rediscovered by Katharina Sellheim and edited by members of the group. The trios had their premieres at the main broadcasting hall of the NDR radio network in Hamburg on November 25, 2021; the Klaviertrio Hannover recorded the works over the previous several days, and that recording was released on Genuin in 2022.
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