Charity, Trio Isimsiz at a Concert & Networking Reception

Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009 and is comprised of students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Pablo Hernan (violin) and Michael Petrov (cello) are in the final year of their undergraduate courses and Erdem Mısırlıoğlu is in the first year of his masters in performance.

At GSMD, Trio Isimsiz have regular coaching from Alasdair Tait and Louise Hopkins. They have also played to James Boyd, Martin Roscoe and members of the Endellion Quartet, Belcea Quartet and Erich Hobart.

In 2011, they travelled to the Mozarteum in Salzburg to play for various distinguished musicians including Pavel Gililov, Wolfgang Redik and Thomas Riebl.

The 2012/13 season sees them performing in both Barbican Hall and Royal Festival Hall, as well as flying to Canada as resident artists at the Banff Centre and revisiting Salzburg.

Pablo plays on a violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume from 1851 and Michael plays on a cello by W. Forster from 1790.

Pablo Hernan Benedi was born in 1991 in Madrid, and he started to play the violin at the age of five. He studied at the C.I. Padre Antonio Soler Conservatory in San Lorenzo de El Escorial with Fernando Rius and Polina Kotliarskaya. He had masterclass from the “Cuarteto Casals”, “Cuarteto Quiroga”, Anuschka Comesana, David Quiggle, James Boyd and Wolfgang Redik.

Since 2009 he has been studying at London Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno, supported by Guildhall School of Music and the goverment of “Comunidad de Madrid”. Since 2011, he has been awarded with scholarships from “Martin Musical Scholarship Fund” and the “Juventudes Musicales”. He has won competitions as “Acordes Caja Madrid” and Hazen “Intercentros”. From 2005 he became part of the Presjovem Fundation, participating in many tours with the orchestra as a leader. He collaborated with orchestras such as Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Orchestra Iberoamericana and European Camerata. He has played chamber music with musicians such as Louise Hopkins and Jerome Pernoo. Future engagements includes concerts with Christophe Coin and Antoine Tamestit.

Since 2010 he became a member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, formed by Alina Ibragimova, Emilie Hornlund and Claire Thirion. Their debut recording was released at the end of 2011 and has received numerous awards and good critics, highlighting the “BBC magazine”, “The Strad”, “Classica” and “Telerama” receiving “Le Choc del anne”. They have played in venues as Auditorium du Louvre, Opera du Dijon and Wigmore Hall. Future engagements include Gulbekian Fundation, Wigmore Hall, and Liceo de Camara del Auditorio Nacional. In the quartet, Pablo plays on a 1747 Nicola Gagliano, kindly on loan.
Pablo also received lessons from Gordan Nikolitch, with whom he performed many times in the BandArt Orchestra.

Michael Petrov was born in 1990 in a family of musicians and began to play the cello at the age of six. When he was seven he played Vivaldi’s cello concerto in A minor with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and this was followed by solo appearances with various orchestras in Bulgaria, and also concerts in Frankfurt and Munich, where he performed Haydn’s C Major with the Munich Chamber Orchestra.
He has won a number of competitions in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. He has played in masterclasses with Mstislav Rostropovich, Bernard Greenhouse, Franz Helmerson and Tilmann Wick in Kronberg, and also Young Chang Cho, Robert Cohen, Stefan Popov and Xenia Jankovic.

In 2002 he was awarded a cello from the Rostropovich Foundation. In September 2005 he took a full scholarship to attend the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied with Thomas Carroll. Since joining the school he has placed in a number of concerts, as soloist, member of the school orchestra, and chamber musician; in the latter role he has performed at venues including Fairfield Halls and the Swiss Ambassador’s Residence. In May 2007 he performed Haydn’s D major Concerto with the London Mozart Players at The Menuhin Hall, and in July 2008 he was one of the soloists in a concert arranged by the School at Wigmore Hall.

He has recently won the Guilhermina Suggia prize and the Muriel Taylor cello prize. He was kindly awarded a full scholarship to continue his education at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he is under the tuition of Louise Hopkins. In 2011 he won the International Suggia Competition in Porto where, in addition to the 1st prize, he was awarded Guilhermina Suggia´s very own Montagnana cello. In 2012 he made his debut at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, New York, and also appeared in a masterclass with Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Erdem Mısırlıoğlu started piano lessons when he was nine. He is currently doing his masters in performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studies with Martin Roscoe and Ronan O’Hora. He studied the piano with Mark Fielding for five years at Junior Guildhall prior to this.
In 2006, Erdem was a prizewinner in the International Rachmaninov Competition for Young Pianists and was also awarded both the Keyboard Instrument Prize in 2006 and the Principal’s prize in 2008 at GSMD. Erdem won the piano section of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 and subsequently performed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Most recently, Erdem was awarded 1st prize in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe’s intercollegiate piano competition.

He has enjoyed participating in master-classes with distinguished pianists including Bernard Roberts, Peter Donohoe, Lang Lang, Paul Lewis and Stephen Kovacevich and has performed in venues including St Martin in the Fields, St James’ Piccadilly, Snape Maltings, Cardiff Millennium Centre and Wigmore Hall, where he gave a recital of Beethoven’s op 109 Sonata and Chopin’s 4 Ballades that was broadcast on Radio 3.

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