Trio Orelon

The piano trio Orelon, founded in Cologne in 2018, owes its name to the world language Esperanto, in which "Orelon" simply means "ear", thus symbolizing the many aspects of hearing in music.

Violinist Judith Stapf, cellist Arnau Rovira i Bascompte and pianist Marco Sanna came together at the music academies in Cologne and Berlin. The piano trio formation offers them the greatest possible musical and also human harmony: in the trio, the three take a curious and dynamic look at the works of their instrument combination and combine this with an irrepressible energy and desire for differentiated expression.

Symphonic density, homogeneous overall sound, "chamber-musical intensity and emotionality" (FAZ) - already shortly after its foundation these qualities were attributed to the Trio Orelon. Symphonic density, homogeneous overall sound, "chamber-musical intensity and emotionality" (FAZ) - already shortly after its foundation these qualities were attributed to the Trio Orelon. After their first concerts, the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation selected the musicians for a scholarship in the summer of 2019, and they subsequently made guest appearances at numerous renowned chamber concert series. July 2022 the trio won the first prize as well as the special prize for the interpretation of the commissioned work at the competition "Franz Schubert and the Music of Modernity" in Graz. Other highlights of their trio career for the musicians were the "Prize Interpretation Commissioned Work" at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2021, which was combined with a performance at the Konzerthaus Berlin, and the second prize as well as the special prize at the Schumann Chamber Music Prize Frankfurt for the "Best Interpretation of a Work by Robert Schumann or his Companions".

Recently, the trio was also awarded again at the renowned competition "Trio di Trieste" in Italy.

Concert tours take the Trio Orelon throughout Europe and to renowned concert halls, including the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and the Gewandhaus Leipzig. The three musicians present innovative thematic programs in which they combine classical repertoire with lesser-known and undiscovered works. In the course of its repertoire research, the trio developed the project "Beethoven's Daughters", which deals with the little-performed literature of female composers and relates them to their ancestor Ludwig van Beethoven in moderated concerts.

The trio is currently under the artistic supervision of Prof. Jonathan Aner at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin.