2025 The Major Trio Australia Tour Melbourne Concert

The Major Trio In Australia Beethoven Trios

Major Trio consists of three outstanding musicians: Violinist Lu Siqing, Cellist Li-Wei Qin and Pianist Sun Yingdi. Each of the three musicians won top awards from Paganini International Violin Competition (Lu Siqing), International Tchaikovsky Competition (Li-Wei Qin) and International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (Sun Yingdi), which brought them high reputations around the world.

Since its establishment in 2011, The Major Trio has been giving concerts in China and overseas successfully. In the past five years, the Trio has been continuously invited by the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) to perform in its renowned NCPA May Festival. The Trio has also been invited to the Great Hall of the People to perform in a banquet held for the head of foreign state. Their repertoire includes chamber masterworks by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Smetana, Arensky, Sarasate, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Piazzolla,and Hu Yao, showing brilliant skills and harmonious cooperation in the performances. Besides chamber performances, the Trio has also collaborated with NCPA Orchestra for Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, also known as Triple Concerto. Each of the three musicians has performed Tan Duns Martial Arts Tetralogy, including violin concerto Hero, cello concerto Crouching Tiger, piano concerto Banquet, and triple concerto Resurrection. Great musicians together present the aesthetic of music has become the motto of The Major Trio.

Presented by Harmonie International

Programme

Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929

I. Allegro

II. Andante con moto

III. Scherzando. Allegro moderato-Trio

IV. Allegro moderato

Intermission

Beethoven: Piano Trio No.7 in B-flat major, Op.97, "Archduke"

I. Allegro moderato

II. Scherzo. Allegro

III. Andante cantabile ma pero con moto

IV. Allegro moderato-Presto