Monet Quintett, Trio Tricolor
Biography Monet Quintett, Trio Tricolor
Monet Quintett
The members of the Monet Wind Quintet met one another early on, when they were still members of the German National Youth Orchestra. It was not until 2014, however, that they founded their ensemble while studying in several different German universities of music. In the meantime, all five have become members of prominent orchestras; chamber music nevertheless remains their greatest passion. The close- knit ensemble meets as often as possible for intense rehearsals and concert schedules, congregating from all over Germany. The Monet Wind Quintet is a regular guest at renowned chamber music festivals including Heidelberg Spring and Davos. Apart from having won the third Prize at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, the ensemble was twice chosen for a scholarship by the German Music Competition and thereby admitted into the German National Young Artist Concert Selection in 2016 and 2019.
Axel Gremmelspacher
Born in Freiburg in 1974, pianist Axel Gremmelspacher performs a varied repertoire as both a soloist and chamber musician. His programs present twentieth- and twenty-first-century music alongside traditional works in a dramatically compelling way, and his vision of traditional and contemporary art music is also significantly influenced by hisexperience as a jazz pianist.
His artistic horizon encompasses not only piano recitals, but also projects that combine music and literature, focusing on such figures as Jean Paul and Stefan Zweig, as well as works like Mathias Spahlinger’s farben der frühe for seven pianos.
Solo appearances and collaborations with chamber music partners including Lucas Fels, Julia Brembeck-Adler, Irmela Roelcke, Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov, and Zoltán Kovács have taken him to many countries throughout Europe as well as to Canada and Hong Kong. As a soloist he has performed with such ensembles as the Toronto Wind Orchestra, Mainz Chamber Orchestra, and Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn.
His artistic work is featured in numerous CD productions, including the first recording of Mathias Spahlinger’s farben der frühe for seven pianos. Radio broadcasts of his concerts and recordings can be heard on Deutschlandradio, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Südwestrundfunk, Radio Bremen, and Hessischer Rundfunk.
After teaching at the Trossingen University of Music and the University of Church Music of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, he was appointed Professor of Piano at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in 2010.
Gremmelspacher studied in Freiburg, Boston, and Hanover with Robert Levin, Raymond Santisi, James Avery, and David Wilde, as well as with John Perry in Toronto on a scholarship from the Rotary Foundation and the Canadian government. He also won a scholarship from the German Music Competition and participated in the German Young Artists Concerts. He has drawn further artistic inspiration from master classes with Leon Fleisher, André Laplante, Marc Durand, Wolfram Christ, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Jörg Widmann, and Robert Aitken.
Zoltán Kovács
international career began at the early age of 18 when he won the Concertino Praga Competition. Under the guidance of the clarinet legend Dieter Klöcker and the renowned composer Jörg Widman, he received prestigious awards.
With orchestras such as the Münchener Kammerorchester, the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Schlesische Philharmonie in Katowice, Zoltán Kovács was able to develop his creative potential as a soloist and perform under the direction of Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Chick Corea, Heinz Holliger and Péter Eötvös. Of particular artistic significance are his premieres of works of a great number of contemporary composers. As a sought-after chamber music partner, Zoltán Kovács regularly performs with different ensembles at renowned festivals.
As a passionate pedagogue, he has taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen since 2005 and gives international master classes. Zoltán Kovács’ passion for teaching paved the way to earning his doctorate as an instrumentalist at the University of Music in Łódź, where he also completed his post doctorate degree in 2013.
Catherina Lendle
received her training at the music conservatories in Detmold, Hanover, Freiburg and Zurich/Winterthur under Ulf Schneider, Latica Honda-Rosenberg and Nora Chastain. She has performed many times as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador and the Staatsorchester Kassel, among others. In 1998 she won 1st prize at the Louis-Spohr-Wettbewerb in Kassel and 2nd prize at the 1st International Violin Competition in Lisbon in 2004; and in 2001 she was a grant recipient of the Stiftung Villa Musica.
She founded the Iris Quartet in 2005, with whom she completed her chamber music studies under Walter Levin, S. Hamann and Rainer Schmidt, in Basel amongst others. In 2009, the Iris Quartet emerged as the only winner of the Wettbewerb der Basler Orchestergesellschaft für junge Musikerinnen und Musiker and received an advancement award by the Stiftung Villa Musica shortly thereafter. This was followed by an invitation to the MISQA at McGill University in Montreal in 2011.
Numerous chamber music concerts led them to Italy, Japan, Canada and Switzerland. Since 2016 she has been a member of the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart. From 2013 to 2016, she was an assistant to Latica Honda-Rosenberg at the Berlin University of the Arts, and since 2019 she has been acting professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.
