Aoi Trio - Symphony performed by 3 persons

The Tsukuba Recital Series is a series of concerts organized by volunteer students of the University of Tsukuba. The series is designed to provide local residents and students with an opportunity to casually enjoy first-class music at a low price (1,500 yen for adults, free for students: application required).
The 13th concert will feature the Aoi Trio, the first Japanese group to win the first prize in the piano trio category at the 2018 Munich International Music Competition, which is considered the Olympics of the music world. They will perform a heavyweight program!

Performers: Aoi Trio
　　　Violin Kyoko Ogawa
　　　Cello Yutaka Ito
　　　Piano Kosuke Akimoto

Performer Profile
The most remarkable piano trio of the moment, the first Japanese group to win the first prize at the 67th Munich International Music Competition. The trio has received high acclaim for its activities that shed light not only on the royal subjects of the piano trio, but also on rarely performed works and works by Japanese composers, and continues to pioneer the world of the piano trio.
　The trio met at Tokyo University of the Arts and Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy, and formed in 2016. The name "Aoi/AOI" comes from the first letters of the surnames of the three members and was named in sympathy with the language of flowers, "great aspirations and abundant harvests. They have performed at major halls in Japan and have been invited to cities in Germany, Italy, France, and the Czech Republic, etc. In January 2021, they performed Beethoven's Trio Concerto with the Fuda Symphony Orchestra, and in December, they performed Casella's Trio Concerto with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. He will be the resident series at Kioi Hall from 2021 to 2023, and a seven-year project with Suntory Hall is underway starting in 2021.
　In 2022, he released "Martineau No. 1 & Dvorak No. 3" from Hensler in Germany.
　He received the 28th Aoyama Music Award Baroque Saal Prize, the 29th Nippon Steel Music Award Fresh Artist Prize, the 22nd Hotel Okura Music Award, and the 34th Music Pen Club Music Award. Currently based in Germany, he is active in Japan and Europe.