Atos Trio - About

To form our very own recital series, complete with adventurous programmes, connected school concerts and intensive work in a school with strong migrational background – the BBT Award and its wonderful staff enabled us to do all of that. Thank you, BBT, and may we continue together to show people of all backgrounds and ages that chamber music is not an elite luxury, but a necessity and regular part of life.

With performances characterised by impassioned commitment, German ensemble ATOS Trio continues to tour the world with the classic piano trio repertoire, whilst unearthing and sharing little-known gems. Equally at home in the great venues of the world – Carnegie, Concertgebouw, Wigmore – and in more local venues, ATOS Trio (the name comes from the players initials) matches programming ingenuity with propulsive playing.

ATOS Trio was absolutely clear about the focus for its BBT Award: its players wanted to take music into an area of Berlin where classical music had little provision. They devised and delivered a series of concerts over two years in Berlin’s Neukölln, a neighbourhood that was finally discarding its reputation for social deprivation and unemployment and fast becoming one of the hippest areas of Berlin. The concerts were accompanied by extensive outreach work in an ethnically diverse local school and, in the Trio’s words: “Through these classes, we hoped to break down cultural barriers, interest the kids in western classical music and prepare them for live recitals, in order to leave lasting musical and social impressions and a broadened cultural horizon.”

ATOS Trio was supported with a BBT Special Ensemble Fellowship between 2012 and 2014.

For a current biography please visit sudbrackmusik.de

Read a blog by the ATOS Trio, The adventure of trying things out, here

Photographs by Benjamin Ealovega and Frank Jerke