The trio initially studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Wolfgang Redik (Vienna Piano Trio) and Tünde Kurucz. After an interlude with changing cellists, the three founding members reunited in 2018 and began their joint Master’s program in Chamber Music at the HMDK Stuttgart in 2020. Enriched by many valuable artistic impulses from their mentors Martin Funda (violin) and Florian Wiek (piano), they completed the Master of Music in 2023 with unanimous distinction.
Beginning in 2014, the accio piano trio was a scholarship recipient of the Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now Salzburg Foundation and has won numerous competitions: They twice succeeded at Musica Juventutis (2015 and 2017, including performances in the Schubert Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus), received the 2nd Prize at the 9th International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk/Poland (2022), the 1st Prize at the Carl Wendling Chamber Music Competition in Stuttgart (2023), and the 3rd Prize at the 30th International Brahms Competition in Pörtschach (2024).
Extensive concert tours have taken the ensemble not only across Austria and Germany, but also to the United States, Italy, France, England, Denmark, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Malta, Georgia, China, and Senegal. Many of these international engagements were realized in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forums abroad.
Among their more than 200 public performances to date, several artistic highlights stand out: for instance, their 2016 concert at Schloss Goldegg broadcast on Radio Österreich 1, featuring a world premiere commissioned by the trio from Salzburg composer Jakob Gruchmann; their inclusion in the Jeunesse Austria artist roster for the 2018/19 and 2024/25 seasons; their debut at the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg in 2021 with guest artist Rolando Villazón; and most recently, their first tour to the United States with concerts in Washington, D.C. (including the Kennedy Center) and New York City.
In the 2024/25 season, the trio engaged in a closer collaboration with the International Mozarteum Foundation as a “Featured Artist.” Additionally, the accio piano trio was selected as one of five classical ensembles for the 2025/26 cycle of The New Austrian Sound of Music (NASOM), a funding program of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BMEIA). As cultural ambassadors of Austria, they can look forward to numerous further international projects. Highlights of the current season include performances in Tokyo, London, Paris, Berlin, Prague, and Mechelen (Belgium), along with a special concert at the ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna together with Iranian oud player and vocalist Avin Ahmadi.
The ensemble’s repertoire focuses on the masterworks of the Viennese Classical period as well as rarely performed trios by women composers and composers underrepresented in the traditional classical canon.
