Successes for chamber music ensembles
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At this year's Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in May 2026, one of the most important chamber music competitions in the world, two ensembles with members who studied and are studying at the HfMT Hamburg came out on top.
The Trio E.T.A. was awarded 1st prize in the "Piano Trio and Piano Quartet" category and also received the "Hitzacker Festival Debut Award". The violinist Elene Meipariani completed her bachelor's degree at the HfMT Hamburg from 2019 to 2023 in the class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, violin, and the Trio E.T.A., founded in Hamburg in 2019, was awarded the Berenberg Award there in 2023. Biography of the trio see below.
The Quartet Euphorie was also awarded 2nd prize in the "Piano Trio and Piano Quartet" category as well as the "Music in PyeongChang Award". Cellist Clara Eglhuber is currently completing her master's degree at the HfMT Hamburg in the class of Prof. Sebastian Klinger.
Trio E.T.A.
The German trio E.T.A., founded in Hamburg in 2019, consists of Elene Meipariani, Nadja Reich and Till Hoffmann. Inspired by the writer, composer and critic, the trio named itself after E. T. A. Hoffmann.
The E.T.A. trio's career was kicked off in 2021 when they won first prize at the German Music Competition. This was followed by the special prize of the Rotary Club Bonn and the Prize of the Friends of Young Musicians Germany, the Walbusch Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany in 2022 and the Berenberg Culture Prize in 2023. Since 2023, Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk (SWR Kultur) has included the ensemble in its multi-year sponsorship project "SWR Kultur New Talent".
Trio E.T.A. regularly performs in major concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, London's Wigmore Hall and the Liederhalle Stuttgart. The ensemble has also performed at renowned festivals, including the Rheingau Music Festival, the Oberstdorf Music Summer and the Schwetzingen Festival. The trio also performed Beethoven's Triple Concerto together with the Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra at the Weilburg Castle Concerts.
The E.T.A. Trio's debut CD with works by Joseph Haydn, Bedřich Smetana and Roman Pawollek was released in February 2023 on the Leipzig label Genuin. In 2026, the second CD with works by Johannes Brahms, César Franck and Edvard Grieg was released by SWR Music. A recording of Schubert's E flat major Trio op. 100 was released on ARD Klassik in 2025.
Impulse
The Trio E.T.A. receives artistic inspiration from Dirk Mommertz, Eberhard Feltz, Angelika Merkle, Priya Mitchell, Christine Busch, Martin Funda, Hyung-ki Joo and Reto Bieri.
Euphoria Quartet
The quartet was founded in 2022 by young musicians living in Berlin
and studying at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.
The members are Japanese violinist Coco Tomita, Polish
violist Julia Wawrowska, German cellist Clara Eglhuber and
German-Hungarian pianist Daniel Streicher.
The group is united not only by a passion for chamber music,
but also by a love of expressing music in a way that reaches the hearts of
listeners, as well as a close friendship that has developed between them after a short period
of collaboration.
Despite their short existence, the ensemble has already debuted in May 2023 in the
Kammersaal of the Berlin Konzerthaus and thrilled the packed
audience with their brilliant, energetic and mature interpretations
of works by Gabriel Fauré and Robert Schumann.
The quartet currently lives and works mainly in Berlin and is taught and supported by Prof.
Jonathan Aner, Professor of Chamber Music at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für
Musik.