A rare chance to hear three of today’s leading musicians perform a trio together for this their first visit to Ireland. Renowned as soloists with the world’s finest orchestras, together they will perform a beautiful programme of works for piano, cello and violin by Schubert, Beethoven and Dvořák.

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Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch was founded in 2009 and comprises three of the finest international instrumentalists performing today.  Playing chamber music together at the Pablo Casals Prades Festival, Hagai Shaham and Raphael Wallfisch recognised an immediate musical synergy. Arnon Erez joined them for trio concerts in Lucerne and the Netherlands later that year and the Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch was established. Since 2009 the Trio have performed, broadcast and recorded widely throughout Europe and Israel, giving concerts in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Israel and Spain. They perform regularly at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and they have been chosen by the Wigmore Hall to present the complete Beethoven Piano Trios in 2020, Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year.

HAGAI SHAHAM – VIOLINIST
As a soloist Hagai Shaham has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic to name a few. 

In September 1990, Hagai Shaham and his duo partner, Arnon Erez, won the first prize at the ARD International Music operation in Munich in the Violin-Piano duo category leading to highly acclaimed recitals throughout the world and a duo partnership which continues to this day. 

ARNON EREZ – PIANIST
Arnon Erez is one of Israel’s leading pianists and an outstanding chamber musician.

He has won several international competitions, including first prize at the Francois Shapira competition and has performed in major festivals and concert halls around the world, including Carnegie Hall, New York; Beethoven Halle, Bonn; Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Herkulessall, Munich; Musikverein, Vienna; the New Auditorium du Louvre in Paris; and London’s Wigmore Hall. 

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH – CELLIST
Raphael Wallfisch was born in London into a family of distinguished musicians, his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch.

At the age of twenty-four he won the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Florence.  Since then he has enjoyed a worldwide career playing with the world’s greatest orchestras and is regularly invited to play at major festivals.