Praised for their “slow-burning, gripping performance” by The Strad, and “virtuosity, presence of mind, and wit” by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Linos Piano Trio has earned international acclaim for its boundary-pushing instincts and depth of interpretation. Winner of the chamber music category of the German Record Critics Prize (2021), the Trio’s accolades include First Prize and Audience Prize of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (2015), the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Albert and Eugenie Frost Prize (2014), and multiple five-star reviews for its recordings.
The rich cultural and artistic backgrounds of the three musicians contribute to the ensemble’s distinctive musical voice. Their seven languages, five nationalities, and breadth of specialisms ranging from historical performance to new music, contribute to their multifaceted yet refined and distilled performances.
The Linos Piano Trio’s reputation has taken it to prestigious stages and festivals internationally, including London’s Southbank Centre, Barbican and Wigmore Halls, Melbourne Recital Centre, MA and AMUZ festivals in Belgium. Since 2019, the Trio has directed the Linos Festival in Cologne: an annual chamber music festival where the trio explores interdisciplinarity practices, commissions new works, and celebrates its multiplicity in full.
Known for their commitment to broaden the scope of the piano trio genre, the Linos Piano Trio’s diverse discography with CAVi/Deutsche Grammophon consists exclusively of innovative approaches to performing the piano trio repertoire, from its debut album of the complete C.P.E. Bach trios (world-premiere recording) to its current project of recording Beethoven Trios on Beethoven’s underexplored pianos (due to release in 2026). Among the ensemble’s most unique works are its rapturously-received series of trio transcriptions — “Stolen Music” — of orchestral masterpieces, including Ravel’s La Valse, and Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The ongoing project Stolen Music launched in 2015 with a vision of reversing the last century’s purist image of transcriptions as compromises, rediscovering its history as a serious form of music making. In all Linos transcriptions, the trio work entirely collaboratively to reimagine the works as if they had been originally written for the piano trio. Their award-winning 2021 album Stolen Music, for CAvi-music in partnership with Bayerischer Rundfunk was praised as “compelling, dramatic, fascinating and unfailingly musical” by the Strad. Following this album’s success, Linos Edition was launched to make its transcriptions available for other musicians to perform.
Formed in London in 2007, the Linos Piano Trio studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then at the Musikhochschule Hannover. The ensemble also received generous scholarships from London’s ChamberStudio and Paris’s ProQuartet programmes to conduct its further studies with Sir András Schiff, Peter Cropper, Ferenc Rados, Rainer Schmidt and Eberhard Feltz, all of whom highly influential in informing the ensemble’s musical voice. Since 2017, the Linos Piano Trio is the Carne-Ensemble-in-Residence at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.
Thai-born London-based musician Prach Boondiskulchok enjoys a uniquely diverse career as a pianist, fortepianist, and composer. Equally at home improvising in 18th Century styles and composing with microtonal harmonies, Prach’s performances have taken him to international stages and festivals. His collaborations have included recitals with Steven Isserlis, Roger Chase, and Leonid Gorokhov. Prach’s works include chamber song cycle Goose Daughter, premiered in New Orleans, New York, and London in 2016-17, and Ritus for String Quartet, commissioned by the Endellion Quartet for its 40th anniversary in 2019, and praised as “a work of great charm” by The Guardian. Prach is an artistic researcher at the Orpheus Institute and teaches piano and chamber music at the Royal College of Music in London.
Praised for his “perfectly poised” (The Strad) music-making and “beautiful tone, articulated like speech” (Klassikfavori), London-born German-Brazilian violinist Konrad Elias-Trostmann’s vivid performance style and natural flair for entertaining break down the wall often found between audience and performer. Chamber music performances have brought him to venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Seoul Arts Centre, and Sala Cultura São Paulo. Konrad has held positions in several German orchestras and regularly appears in leading positions with world-renowned orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. More recently he is turning his attention to pursuing his passion of leading and directing independent and creative ensembles. Currently based in Berlin, he enjoys a vibrant and diverse social life in whichever city he happens to be, and gathering inspiration from some of his greatest musical influences such as Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.
Berlin-based French-born multi-faceted musician Vladimir Waltham is equally at home on Cello, Baroque Cello, and all sizes of da Gamba instruments. Praised for his “luminous tone” by Gramophone, Vladimir is passionate about sharing the broadest possible musical palette, in repertoire spanning from the Middle Ages to collaborations with composers and world premieres as well as everything in between. A regular guest in halls and festivals worldwide, Vladimir is busy as a soloist and chamber musician on both modern and historical cellos, and is known in historical performance circles as one of Europe’s foremost cellists. When not busy travelling and performing, you can find Vladimir at home enjoying his love of cooking and of coffee, or taking his family on a hike in the nearest mountains.
Linos (Λῖνος) was a celebrated musician in Greek mythology. The son of Apollo, Linos received from his father the three-stringed lute, sometimes depicted as the lyre. As one of the original demi-gods of music, Linos had many pupils, most famously Heracles and his brother Orpheus. Linos was known as the inventor of new melodies, lyric songs, and eloquent speech.
