Els­ter Trio

The Els­ter Trio was foun­ded in 2022 by Was­si­li Wohl­ge­muth, Da­vi­de Car­las­sa­ra and Ja­co­po Gio­van­ni­ni out of a sha­red love of cham­ber mu­sic and the de­si­re to de­ve­lop a new re­per­toire ap­proach and a uni­que trio sound lan­guage. It aims to fle­xi­b­ly ex­plo­re the clas­si­cal and con­tem­pora­ry re­per­toire and en­joys ex­pe­ri­men­ting with dif­fe­rent mu­si­cal me­ans.

In 2022, the en­sem­ble won the first pri­ze at the cham­ber mu­sic com­pe­ti­ti­on of the Leip­zig Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Thea­t­re and in 2024 the first pri­ze at the cham­ber mu­sic com­pe­ti­ti­on of the Po­ly­tech­ni­sche Ge­sell­schaft in Frank­furt. In ad­di­ti­on to the­se suc­ces­ses, the en­sem­ble has al­rea­dy de­light­ed au­di­en­ces at ve­nues in­clu­ding the Gohli­ser Schlöss­chen in Leip­zig and Stad­tha­gen Cast­le. In the up­co­m­ing sea­son, it will per­form at the Rhein­gau Mu­sic Fes­ti­val and the Meck­len­burg-Vor­pom­mern Fes­ti­val, among others.

In 2022, the en­sem­ble won the first pri­ze at the cham­ber mu­sic com­pe­ti­ti­on of the Leip­zig Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Thea­t­re and in 2024 the first pri­ze at the cham­ber mu­sic com­pe­ti­ti­on of the Po­ly­tech­ni­sche Ge­sell­schaft in Frank­furt. In ad­di­ti­on to the­se suc­ces­ses, the en­sem­ble has al­rea­dy de­light­ed au­di­en­ces at ve­nues in­clu­ding the Gohli­ser Schlöss­chen in Leip­zig and Stad­tha­gen Cast­le. In the up­co­m­ing sea­son, it will per­form at the Rhein­gau Mu­sic Fes­ti­val and the Meck­len­burg-Vor­pom­mern Fes­ti­val, among others.

The Els­ter Trio has been stu­dy­ing in Prof. An­ge­li­ka Mer­kle's class at the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts (HfMDK) sin­ce Oc­to­ber 2023. It is a scho­l­ar­ship hol­der of Jeu­nesses Mu­si­ca­les Deutsch­land, re­cent­ly re­cei­ved the en­sem­ble scho­l­ar­ship of the HfMDK Frank­furt and was one of the win­ners of the ‘Vor­aus­hö­ren’ com­pe­ti­ti­on the­re.

In the field of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic, the trio works clo­se­ly with the com­po­ser Sung­hyun Lee, who­se work ‘Biit­deul’ it pre­mie­red in 2024 as a de­di­ca­tee.

It re­cei­ved im­portant im­pul­ses from Prof. Va­len­tin Er­ben, Prof. Bo­ris Kus­ne­zow, Flo­ri­an Schötz, Prof. Hei­me Mül­ler, the Cuar­te­to Ca­sals and Prof. Ta­bea Zim­mer­mann.