Few young groups play with as much personality as the Chloé Piano Trio.
Keith Bruce, Vox Carnyx
So inspiring, youthful, vigorous. Extremely interesting programme, played with great enthusiasm and understanding. The interaction between the players was particularly enjoyable. Each work was extremely well presented and enlightening.
Clive Wilson, Bedwyn Music Society
The Chloé Piano Trio, Tunnell Trust Award Winners 2024/25, was formed in 2017 by talented emerging musicians at the Royal College of Music, London. They previously were Kirckman Trust Young Artists and winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Henderson Chamber Music Prize 2021. They have performed across the UK and abroad (France, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands), in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, Kings Place, Royal Academy of Arts & Champs Hill, the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, Lichfield Festival and Hargrave Festival. In March 2023, the Trio performed in Wigmore Hall as finalists of the Parkhouse Award competition. Upcoming engagements for 2026 include Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in Leiderdorp with the Symfonieorkest LKO and two concert tours in Scotland. They will also be releasing their first CD featuring music by Lili Boulanger and Kelly-Marie Murphy.
Notable appearances include performing for HRH King Charles during his President Visit at the Royal College of Music in March 2020, their debut recital at Kings Place London in December 2023 and several performances in the Netherlands of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Ad Hoc Orchestra and Mark Snitselaar in January 2024. In 2023 they founded, curated and organised the first edition of the ‘Chloé Festival’, a three day event in Greenwich, centered around women composers & artists. They recently performed a theatrical salon-inspired concert alongside actress Maggie Steed for Music at Paxton.
In April 2018 the Chloé Piano Trio, at the time known as the Daphnis Trio, was nominated by the RCM for the Birmingham Intercollegiate Piano Trio Competition and won the Third Prize. The repertoire of the trio ranges from Baroque and Classical periods to modern and newly commissioned music. They are also highly interested in the performance of works written by women composers and have recorded numerous of such works at Abbey Road Studios as part of their ongoing collaboration with the Abbey Road Institute.
The Chloé Piano Trio has recently received tuition from pianist Alasdair Beatson as part of the Chamber Studio sessions, as well as worked in the past with high profile musicians like Norma Fisher, Johannes Meissl, Ricardo Castro, Vera Martínez-Mehner, Ulrich Koella, Patrick Jüdt, Alexander Lonquich, Lucy Gould, Richard Lester, Ben Hancox, Simon Lepper, and others. The Trio also performed at the Ticino Musica Festival in Lugano, Switzerland in July 2020 and participated in the European Chamber Music Academy sessions in Manchester (March 2022) and Fiesole (August 2021). Both Maria and Jobine are grateful to be playing on beautiful string instruments and bows on loan to them from The Netherlands Musical Instrument Foundation.
An outstanding ensemble, not only for its very high standard of ensemble playing, but also because it brings together three top-rate instrumentalists and equally sensitive, intelligent and dedicated musicians. Their enthusiasm and dedication for music results in probing interpretations of not only mainstream repertoire, but also of lesson known works which deserve more recognition.
Ulrich Koella, Ticino Musica Festival