Johannes Wendel, violin

Christoph Lamprecht, cello

Yona Sophia Jutzi, piano

Winners of the 2025 Parkhouse Award

Haydn: Piano Trio in A, Hob.XV/18

Kreisler: 3 pieces for piano trio

Kelly-Marie Murphy: Give me phoenix wings to fly

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Dvořák: Piano Trio No.4 in E minor, Op.90 (Dumky)

Presented in association with The Parkhouse Award

The Davidoff Trio, founded in Mainz in 2021, is considered one of the most interesting up-and-coming piano trios in the European chamber music scene.

Regularly appearing on international stages, the trio has performed at festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Brixen Classics Festival, the Ernen Music Village Festival, and the Swiss Chamber Music Festival Adelboden. In April 2025, the trio won the prestigious Parkhouse Award in London and has received numerous other national and international awards, most recently at the 2026 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the 2025 International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition, the 2024 Gianni Bergamo International Classic Music Award, the Folkwang Prize, and the Walbusch Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany.

For the 2025-2027 seasons, the trio was appointed Ensemble in Residence at the ProQuartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre in Paris. The ensemble is also a scholarship recipient of the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation and receives support from the Walter Kaminsky Foundation and the Manfred and Ursula Müller Foundation. Concert recordings have been broadcast internationally on radio several times, most recently on SRF Kultur and WDR3.

The trio is currently studying for their concert exam at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen under Thomas Hoppe, and at the International Institute for Chamber Music of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, where they were most recently trained by Günter Pichler. They have also received significant artistic inspiration from Konstantin Heidrich, Andreas Lehmann, Luc-Marie Aguera, and Yovan Markovitch.

With the aim of making classical music accessible to a wider audience through innovative concert formats and unusual concert venues, the trio launched an interdisciplinary concert series in January 2025 (supported, among other things, by the #MusikerZukunft scholarship of the German Orchestra Foundation) in the popular Mainz bar “Nirgendwo”, which combines classical music with jazz and poetry.

Performances in 2026 will take the trio across Germany, to Spain, England, Italy, Finland and Japan, and will include highlights such as their debut with Beethoven's Triple Concerto at the Philharmonie Essen and a recital at Wigmore Hall.

Johannes plays a violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris, 1861), which has been generously loaned to him from a private collection. Christoph is currently playing a cello by Nicolas François Vuillaume from 1860, generously loaned by Daniel Geiss.

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