Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Joseph Kalichstein, piano
Jaime Laredo, violin
Sharon Robinson, cello

After more than three decades of great success, many recordings, and newly commissioned works, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio continues to dazzle audiences and critics alike with their performances.  Since making their debut at the White House for President Carter’s Inauguration in January 1977, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature for more than thirty years.

During the 2009-2010 season the trio will continue their annual visits to New York, California, Washington D.C. and Florida. Internationally, they will concertize in Berne, Switzerland, South Korea and in London for a return performance at Wigmore Hall.  The newly-commissioned Septet by Ellen Zwilich will be brought to audiences in Ohio, Oregon, Florida, and at Bard College, New York.

Highlights of the 2008-9 season included the Complete Beethoven Cycle at Wigmore Hall and the world premiere of Ellen Zwilich’s Septet in collaboration with the Miami String Quartet at New York City’s 92nd Street Y. Subsequent premieres occurred at the Kennedy Center, Detroit Chamber Music Society, and Virginia Arts Festival.

During past seasons, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has maintained a heavy touring schedule that has taken them across the globe.  Memorable concerts over the years include the Trio’s performance on Carnegie Hall's Centennial Series; tours of Japan, New Zealand and Australia; a series with the Guarneri Quartet featuring Brahms’ entire literature for piano and strings; the Beethoven cycle on Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series and performances across America and Europe of new concertos written exclusively for the Trio.  
In Europe, the Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio has performed in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lisbon, London, Vienna, and Paris, as well as at major international music festivals in Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Granada, Helsinki, Highlands, South Bank, Stresa and Tivoli.  They have toured the British Isles with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in performances of solo, double and triple concertos and have recorded the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra for Chandos.
On the recording front, the ensemble has entered an exciting new partnership with KOCH International Classics.  The Trio’s most recent recording project, a 4-disc Brahms Cycle of the complete trios, was just released in autumn 2009.  The release includes the final two CDs of the project, following a previous release of the first two CDs in 2008.  Their Arensky & Tchaikovsky disc was released in October 2006 to great acclaim.  KOCH also re-released many of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio’s hallmark recordings, including chamber works of Maurice Ravel, A Child’s Reliquary (piano trio) and In the Arms of the Beloved (double concerto) by Richard Danielpour, the complete sonatas and trios of Shostakovich, trios by Pärt, Zwilich, Kirchner and Silverman written especially for the group, and their beloved collection of the complete Beethoven Trios. 

In December 2001, The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio were awarded ‘Ensemble of the Year’ for 2002 by Musical America. The 2003-04 season was their first as Chamber Ensemble in Residence at the Kennedy Center, an honor which has continued to thrill the Trio throughout subsequent seasons.  They were also awarded the first annual Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award by the Foundation for Recorded Music. 

Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson joined the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2005, while Joseph Kalichstein continues as a long-revered teacher at the Juilliard School of Music.