Trio Accanto

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Trio Accanto is a contemporary piano trio formed of Marcus Weiss (saxophone), Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Christian Dierstein (percussion). It is based in Freiburg, Germany. Trio Accanto was formed as the result of a discussion between Marcus Weiss and Yukiko Sugawara. Christian Dierstein was invited to be the percussionist, and the first official concert of the Trio was at Donaueschingen in 1994. Since 2013 Nicolas Hodges has been the pianist, having succeeded Yukiko Sugawara who retired from the group after their performance of Aureliano Cattaneo's trio-concerto Blut with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Freiburg under François-Xavier Roth at Donaueschingen in 2012. Although the individual members are based in Basel, Stuttgart and Freiburg, the trio rehearses solely in Freiburg, which it considers its home. In addition to concerts, Trio Accanto has coached chamber music at Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, and IMPULS Academy, Graz. The scoring of saxophone, piano and percussion is common in jazz but uncommon in classical music. Trio Accanto has steadily built a repertoire of about 100 works for this scoring (including a handful of concertos). Some composers who have written from Trio Accanto include Mark Andre, Georges Aperghis, Aldo Clementi, Stefano Gervasoni, Vinko Globokar, Erhard Grosskopf, Toshio Hosokawa, Thomas Kessler, Marina Khorkova, Jo Kondo, Helmut Lachenmann, Brice Pauset, Stefan Prins, Rolf Riehm, Wolfgang Rihm, Johannes Schöllhorn, Martin Schüttler,

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Christian Wolff: Trio IX and Exercises

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Andre: Durch, …Zu… , …In & …Als… II

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Christian Wolff: Trio IX - Accanto / Exercises

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