BBC - Radio 3 - New Generation Artists

Trio Ondine

Listen to Trio Ondine play an extract from Mvt1 of Haydn's Gypsy Rondo XV:25

Members:
Martin Quist Hansen - Piano
Erik Heide - Violine
Jonathan Slaatto - Violoncello

Nationality: Danish

Places of study: Copenhagen

Teachers include: Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne and Ralf Gothoni in Helsinki.

Prizes/Accolades: Broadwood Piano trio competition in Manchester in 1999, best Interpretation of contemporary music at the Danish Radio Chamber music Competition in 2000, Parkhouse Award in London and the Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna in 2001, ARD competition in Munich in 2002, where the trio also received the audience prize. 2003 prize-winner in Melbourne at the Melbourne International Chamber music Competition, where the three musicians also won the audience prize.

Recent performances include: Radio recordings in the UK, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Slovenia and Estonia. Numerous performances of Beethoven's triple concerto (the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra performance was transmitted as an EBU production to most of Europe, USA, Australia and Hong Kong). During the 2003/04 season the trio performed at the Berlin Konzerthaus, Gasteig Munich, in Cologne as well as at Mozarteum Salzburg, at Wigmore Hall London and at Joseph Haydn Hall Vienna.
The 2004/05 season took the Trio to Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Bavaria and to many festivals in the UK, such as the Proms and the Nottingham Festival.

Future performances include:
The trio is "Artist in Residence" at the Theater Duisburg which involves chamber music concerts and concerts with the orchestra of Duisburg.

Ongoing projects include recording the complete Holmboe Trios for the DaCapo label and recordings of the complete Beethoven Trios for the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich.

Management:
Krautheim Concepts

"... an outstanding ensemble which deserves a massive future..... the Ondine astonished with their maturity, their poise in matters of tone and balance, their understanding"
Wigmore Hall recital Sept 2002
Stephen Pettitt - Evening Standard Oct 2002