Trio Isimsiz

Book online and join us for the Season

Three outstanding musicians, three individual voices, one ensemble.

In its first Australian tour, Trio Isimsiz performs two giants of the piano trio repertoire, Schubert’s colossal Piano Trio No. 1 and Brahms’ passionate Piano Trio, alongside an exciting new voice, the ‘ear-beguiling and strikingly inventive’ Francisco Coll.

What’s in a name? Trio Isimsiz’s name comes from the Turkish for ‘without name’ or ‘anonymous’. In other words, for Trio Isimsiz it is all about the music.

Pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí  and cellist Edvard Pogossian met at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2008 and built their craft at festivals from Aldeburgh to Trondheim, and in masterclasses with András Schiff, Steven Isserlis, the Gould Piano Trio and the Takács Quartet. They’ve toured China and Argentina and given recitals at Tivoli Concert Hall, Snape Maltings, Fundacióon Juan March in Madrid and the Marianischer -Saal in Lucerne.

Three outstanding musicians, three individual voices, one ensemble.

Trio Isimsiz will perform two giants of the piano trio repertoire. Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 is a chamber work built on a grand scale, which still maintains a miraculous intimacy and lightness of being. And according to the Trio’s cellist, Edvard Pogossian, Brahms’ Piano Trio is ‘the greatest piece of all time. It’s filled with passion, love, but also nostalgia, loneliness… Any human emotion you can think of is in this piece.’

Tucked in between these masterpieces is the Australian mainstage premiere of the Piano Trio by Francisco Coll, a Spanish composer hailed as a voice of the generation. Described by The Strad as ‘ear-beguiling and starkly inventive’, it was commissioned for Trio Isimsiz by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical in Madrid, and Britten Pears Arts for the Aldeburgh Festival.  

‘To write a piano trio... has a historical connotation,’ Francisco said in the lead-up to the premiere in Snape Maltings, Suffolk. ‘I like to play with history.’

"A piano trio that already has that vital combination of unanimity of ensemble and musicianship, plus plenty of individual character and vitality."
— BBC Radio 3
"‘Francisco Coll's music displays an original and powerful sense of drama, and his ideas about music proceed from a strikingly individual and unusual mind."
— Thomas Adès

TRIO ISIMSIZ 
PABLO HERNÁN BENEDÍ violin
EDVARD POGOSSIAN cello
ERDEM MISIRLIOĞLU piano

BRAHMS Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101
Francisco COLL Piano Trio
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D898

FRANCISO COLL

The Spanish composer-conductor Francisco Coll is currently Artistic Partner with Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias across three seasons, which sees him conduct repertoire including Berio, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky and de Falla, alongside his own music.

Francisco has recently enjoyed successful debuts with Kammerorchester Basel, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. This season also sees his debut with Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. Strongly influenced by Nordic repertoire, Francisco conducted the Finnish premiere of his orchestral work Hímnica at the Fiskars Summer Festival.

A highly sought-after composer, Francisco is published by Faber Music. He was Composer-in-Residence with Orquestra de Valencia (2018-2020) where he conducted the world premiere of his work Lilith. His position as Composer-in-Residence with Camerata Bern (2018-2019) culminated in winning the BBC Music Magazine Award 2022 for the recording of his Double Concerto Les Plaisirs Illuminés, which he conducted for Alpha Classics.

He works regularly with artists including Sol Gabetta & Patricia Kopatchinskaja. His works have been performed by the world’s leading orchestras and ensembles, including Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Münchner Philharmoniker and Bamberger Symphoniker, amongst others.

Born in Valencia in 1985, Francisco studied in Spain before moving to London where he worked privately with Thomas Adès (his only pupil to date) and with Richard Baker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He now lives in Lucerne. In 2019, he became the first composer to receive an International Classical Music Award (ICMA).

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Perth   30 September 7:30pm
Adelaide   2 October 7:30pm
Canberra   3 October 7pm
Melbourne   7 October 7pm
Newcastle   9 October 7:30pm
Brisbane   11 October 7pm
Sydney   13 October 7pm

Location

Multiple Venues

Please check the venue in your city when booking tickets.

Event notes

Venues

Read more about the venues here.

You might also be interested in...

View All
Book Now
More info

Imagine a grand piano, exploded and spinning in a ballet of fragments, with John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes playing beneath a slowly whirling sculpture.

More info

The Cage Project