The ensemble has performed in major halls including Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Pleyel and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montréal, Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Prinzregentheater and Herkulessaal in Munich. The trio has also made its debut at such renowned summer festivals as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or La Roque d'Anthéron.
Highlights of the 2014/2015 season include a tour in Asia for the "Tokyo Folle Journée" and the Festival Croisements in different cities of China, a tour with the Neue Philharmonie Westphalie in Beethoven's Triple Concerto conducted by Evan Christ as well as concerts in Festival Radio France and Montpellier.
The three musicians are graduated from Paris and Lyon CNSM, the Paris Ecole Normale and studied further individually with internationally well-known teachers in Leipzig, Vienna and Berlin.
Founded in Paris in 2009, the trio has chosen to bear the name of Tolstoï's heroine for the vital impulse that lives in her. The ensemble studied with major chamber music artists, such as the Ysaÿe Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados, Jean-Claude Pennetier, the Wanderer Trio and Hatto Beyerle.
1st Prize of "Charles Hennen" International Chamber Music Competition in the Netherlands, laureate of the austrian "Joseph Haydn" International Chamber Music Competition and of the prestigious Banque Populaire grant, the Trio Karénine was unanimously awarded the "International Pro Musicis" Prize in Paris. At the same time, the trio is laureate of the Maurice Ravel Academy and the Charles Oulmont Foundation.
Enthusiastic about musical innovation, the trio regularly plays works by Wolfgang Rihm, Hans Werner Henze, Philippe Hersant, Graciane Finzi… It has been dedicated Benoît Menut's second trio, Les Allées Sombres. The trio was also awarded with the special prize for the best interpretation of Fazil Say's "Space Jump" at the ARD Competition.
The trio is holding a residence at the "Singer-Polignac Foundation" in Paris. It was named "ECMA member" by the European Chamber music Academy.
Source: sartoryartists.com
