Trio Wanderer
The Trio Wanderer is a French piano trio made up of Vincent Coq, piano, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, violin, and Raphaël Pidoux, cello, who graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1988 they won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and in 1990 the Fischoff National [Chamber Music Competition] in the US.
History
The trio has performed at the Berliner Philharmonie, Paris' Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Wiener Musikverein, London's Wigmore Hall, Milan's Teatro alla Scala, Barcelona's Palau de la Musica, Washington's Library of Congress, Rio de Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, Tokyo's Kioi Hall, Zürich's Tonhalle and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. They have also performed at major festivals such as Edinburgh, Montreux, Feldkirch, Schleswig Holstein, Rheingau Musiksommer, La Roque-d'Anthéron, the Nantes Folle Journée, Granada, Stresa, Osaka, Salzburg...They have collaborated with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Christopher Hogwood, James Loughran, Victor Pablo Pérez, Ion Marin, Marco Guidarini, François-Xavier Roth, José Areán, Charles Dutoit and James Conlon, accompanied, in triple or double concertos, by orchestras as Toulouse, Nice, Pau, Montpellier, Liège, Santiago de Chile, La Coruna, Teneriffe, by Les Siècles orchestra, Radio-France's Orchestre National and Orchestre Philharmonique, Malaysian Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, Berlin's Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Graz's Philharmonic Orchester, Köln's Gürzenich Orchester, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra
Trio Wanderer has premiered several works by Thierry Escaich, Bruno Mantovani, Frank Michael Beyer and Matteo Francescini, Philippe Hersant.
In 2014, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian and Raphaël Pidoux took the position of Professor of violin and violoncello at the Paris' Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique et de Danse. Vincent Coq is Professor of Chamber Music at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne since 2010.
In 2015, Trio Wanderer's members were bestowed the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
Discography
Trio Wanderer has recorded 16 CDs released by Harmonia Mundi since 1999 as well as recordings produced by Sony Classical, Accord, Cyprès, Cappricio and Mirare.- Dvorak, Trio op. 65 & op. 90 Dumky
- Brahms, Trio op. 8, Piano Quartet op. 60
- Fauré, Pierné, Trio op. 120 & op. 45
- Arensky, Tchaikovsky, Trio op. 32 & Trio op. 50
- Mantovani, Huits Moments Musicaux with Claire Désert, piano
- Beethoven, Complete piano trios
- Liszt, Smetana, Tristia, Elégies, Trio op. 15
- Fauré, Piano Quartet op. 15 & op. 45 Antoine Tamestit, viola
- Escaich, Martinů, Debussy, Bartók, Lettres Mêlées with François Leleux, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer
- Beethoven, Haydn, Pleyel, Folksongs with Wolfgang Holzmair, Baryton
- Messiaen, Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps with Pascal Moraguès, clarinet
- Mendelssohn, Trios op. 49 & op. 66
- Johannes Brahms, Trios op. 8, 87, 101, Quatuor op. 25 with Christophe Gaugué, viola
- Camille Saint-Saëns, Trios op. 18 & op. 92
- Dmitri Shostakovich, Aaron Copland, Trios op. 8 & 67, Vitebsk
- Martinů, Concert & Concertino with Gürzenich Kölner Philharmoniker, James Conlon conducting
- Beethoven, Triple Concerto op. 56 with Gürzenich Kölner Philharmoniker, James Conlon conducting
- Schubert, Hummel, Quintette op. 114, Quintette op. 87 Christophe Gaugué, viola, Stéphane Logerot, doublebass
- Schubert, Complete piano trios
- Haydn, Trios Hob. XV: 27, 28, 29, 25
- Ravel, Chausson, Trio, Trio op. 3
- Smetana, Dvořák, Trio op. 12, Trio op. 90 "Dumky"
- Mendelssohn, Trios op. 49 & op. 66
Awards
- 1988: ARD International Music Competition
- 1990: Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition aux États-Unis
- 1997: Victoires de la musique classique
- 2000: Victoires de la musique classique
- 2002: Monde de la Musique 'Choc' of the year
- 2006: Diapason d'Or of the year
- 2007: Midem Classical Award
- 2008: BBC Magazine CD of the Month
- 2009: Victoires de la musique classique