Concert by the Davidoff Trio

The Davidoff Trio was founded in Mainz in 2021 and is currently continuing its training in concert performance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Thomas Hoppe and at the International Institute for Chamber Music at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid with Günter Pichler. The ensemble performs throughout Germany and other European countries and has appeared at renowned international festivals, including the Festival Musikdorf Ernen, the Brixen Classics Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In January 2025, the trio launched its own interdisciplinary concert series at the Mainz bar ›Nirgendwo‹, combining classical music with jazz and poetry.

Concert recordings of the Davidoff Trio have been broadcast internationally on radio several times, including on SRF Kultur. The ensemble has received numerous prizes and awards, most recently at the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition and the Folkwang Prize, and is supported by the Kaminsky Foundation and the Dörken Foundation. In 2025, the trio won the Parkhouse Award in London and was named Ensemble in Residence by Pro-Quartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre in Paris.

The Ensemble

Johannes Wendel began playing the violin at the age of five. After attending the Schloss Belvedere Weimar music school, he completed his bachelor's degree at the Mainz University of Music and his master's degree at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. During his musical career, he has received several prizes at the national level in the Jugend musiziert competition, as well as scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation of Commerzbank Frankfurt am Main, the Erich Bachmann Foundation, the Lions Club Pirmasens, the City of Pirmasens, and the musica aeterna Foundation of Frankfurter Sparkasse.

Christoph Lamprecht began taking cello lessons at the age of seven. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Mainz University of Music and his master's degree at the Basel Academy of Music in March 2021, where he also completed his training with a master's degree in Specialised Soloist Performance. He is a multiple prize winner at Jugend musiziert, a member of the Neumeyer Consort's scholarship academy for early music, and was awarded the Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz's cultural promotion prize. In the 2020/21 season, he was engaged as deputy principal cellist at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden and has been a member of the Meininger Hofkapelle in the same position since October 2022.

Yona Sophia Jutzi is a piano accompanist who performs internationally. She studied piano at bachelor's and master's level and also completed a master's degree in piano chamber music. She is currently completing her studies in the master class at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. The pianist has won prizes at various competitions and is supported by the Germany Scholarship, the Walter Kaminsky Foundation and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. In addition to her varied activities as a piano accompanist, Yona Sophia Jutzi is also involved in music education and works as a project manager for the Schaumburg Castle Concerts and the International Music Academy for Soloists (IMAS).


Programme

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in A major, Hob. XV: 18
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante
III. Finale. Vivace assai

Kelly Marie Murphy (*1964)
›Give me Phoenix wings to fly‹
I. (Feuer)
II. (Blinde Zerstörung)
III. (Wiederaufbau)

Intermission

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Allegretto grazioso
III. Poco Adagio
IV. Finale. Allegro con brio


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