Trio Debussy
Piergiorgio Rosso – violin
Francesca Gosio – cello
Antonio Valentino – piano
“Endowed with undoubted stylistic and technical property”, the members of the Debussy Trio “master an astonishing technique and move between Schubert, Haydn and Schumann with absolute stylistic property” (“La Repubblica”).
More often than not, human and professional events lead chamber ensembles to disband within seasons. The rule does not apply to the Trio Debussy, which, with its twenty-eight years of uninterrupted activity, qualifies as the longest-lived Italian trio and one of the rare ‘full-time’ trios in the panorama of chamber music.
After winning the International Competition for Chamber Ensembles “Premio Trio di Trieste” (1997), the Trio began an important concert career, playing for the most important Italian and foreign concert societies: Amici della Musica in Florence, Unione Musicale in Turin, Società del Quartetto in Milan, Mi-To Settembre Musica, Amici della Musica in Palermo, Sala d’Oro of the Musikverein in Vienna (in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto), Sala S. Cecilia in the new Auditorium in Rome (accompanied by the Orchestra di S.Cecilia conducted by J.Tate in the triple Concerto for trio and orchestra by G.F.Ghedini), Coliseum in Buenos Aires, Associazione Scarlatti in Naples, Chigiana in Siena, Societad Filarmonica in Valencia, Quirinale in Rome (live on radio) and many more.
In 2003, the trio founded the Festival ‘Tra Futuro & Passato’, aimed at promoting new compositions for trio. The 20-year collaboration with the Unione Musicale has also given rise to numerous projects and since 2010/2011 the Trio Debussy has been collaborating on the Atelier Giovani project, during which it has performed, together with young musicians, the complete chamber music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. In the 2012/2013 season, he began a project to explore French chamber music between the 19th and 20th centuries by rediscovering outdated works. In recent years, there has been no lack of experiments in contamination and collaborations with artists from other musical genres. One of these resulted in a record with the group ‘Manomanuches’.
He is still working on a project involving some instrumental works by the great singer-songwriter Paolo Conte in collaboration with three other artists from his band.
On his latest CD, he recorded two of the greatest masterpieces of the trio repertoire, Schubert’s Opus 100 (in its complete edition) and Ravel’s trio.