Concert by the Davidoff Trio

On December 12, 2025, the Davidoff Trio will give a concert in the Kalkhof-Rose concert hall at the Academy of Sciences and Literature. The program will include works by Haydn, Dvořák, and Kelly Marie Murphy.

The Davidoff Trio was founded in Mainz in 2021 and is currently continuing its training in concert exams 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 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 at 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.

Contributors

Johannes Wendel began playing the violin at the age of five. After attending the Schloss Belvedere Weimar music high 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 Specialized 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 Theater 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 Theater 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 versatile work as a piano accompanist, Yona Sophia Jutzi is also active in music education and as a project manager for the Schaumburg Castle Concerts and the International Music Academy for Soloists (IMAS).

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