Tickets are $20 advance at Black Bear Books in Creston. The program of chamber music will feature Beethoven's Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3 and Dvořák,s Piano Trio in E Minor, No. 4, Op. 90, “Dumky.”
"For those of you who love classical music, this trio is out of this world with professional players from Europe," said Boundary County music maven Vicki Blake Thompson. "It will be well worth the trip to Creston."
Formed in 2015, Trio von Radowitz is comprised of three passionate and well-established musicians. Having performed together for over a decade, pianist Florian von Radowitz and Canadian-born cellist Amanda Anderson are joined by the talented violinist, Sophie Pantzier, who was born into a musical family in Leipzig, Germany.
Pantzier began violin lessons with Andreas Seidel of the Leipzig String Quartet. She completed her Bachelor's in Lubeck, Germany, with Professor Egelhof and her Master's in Zurich, Switzerland, with Nora Chastain. After winning competitions, she was awarded a violin from the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung for four years during her studies.
Her passion for orchestral music led her to audition for the esteemed scholarship programs of the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester Hamburg and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She was successful, and has toured internationally with both. Pantzier has taken part in masterclasses with world-renowned violinists Thomas Brandis and Nora Chastain. In her spare time she enjoys playing the baroque violin, which she minored in at university. She holds a permanent position with the NDR Radiophilharmonie.
Amanda Anderson, who was born in Creston, began her pursuit of cello performance at the University of Calgary, studying with Jeehoon Kim and John Kadz.
Two years later, after attending the masterclass program at the Centre d'Arts in Orford, Quebec, with Janos Starker, she decided to embark on a journey that forever shaped her musical path. Following her five-year degree with Professor Peter Hörr at The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, winning a first prize in chamber music and completing a practicum with The Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, she furthered her studies in Weimar with Professor Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and attended the elite post-graduate scholarship program with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich.
In 2012, she won a tenured job with the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover, Germany.
Anderson is an avid chamber musician and has shared the stage with musicians such as Isabelle van Keulen, Elisabeth Kufferath, Jonathan Crow, Olivier Thouin, Charles Foreman and Bence Boganyi. She has performed at many festivals including the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Weidener Max-Reger-Tage, the Boswiler Sommer Musikfestival, the Banff Centre and the Mountain View International Festival of Song and Chamber Music.
She has toured extensively in orchestras throughout Europe, including with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Hamburg Philharmonic.
Born in Sindelfingen, Germany, in 1978, Florian von Radowitz began piano lessons in 1984 with Nora Huzly. He furthered his studies with Michael Hauber from 1994 to 2000 and with Klaus Hellwig from 2000 to 2006, and attended masterclasses with Ilan Gronich, Thomas Quasthoff, Elza Kolodin and Menahem Pressler.
Having studied at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts, where he pursued performance and pedagogy degrees, he won several first prizes in the competition “Jugend musiziert" at the national level, and a second prize in the competition Giovanni Concertisti in Rome, Italy.
In 2007, he was presented with a scholarship from the “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb." He has done several recordings for prominent radio stations in Europe and North America and has also released CDs with Ars Musici (2005) and Classic Concerts Records (2007). He has been invited to play with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus and the Ludwigsburger Festspiele.
He is also a regular guest at festivals throughout Europe, and he performs frequently with prizewinners of the ARD Competition and the German National Competition.
In addition to Creston, the trio will perform at Cranbrook United Church, 2 12th Avenue South, Cranbrook, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 1, with advance tickets available at Hot Shots Cafe, and at St. Saviour's Pro-Cathedral, 701 Ward Street, Nelson, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, with advance tickets available at Otter Books in Nelson.