Bernstein Trio honoured with 1st prize in the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition
The Eisler was represented by two ensembles at this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition for Piano Trio: The Bernstein Trio won 1st prize and the special prize for interpretation of the commissioned work. The piano trio also received the Friends of Young Musicians Prize, which is endowed with 6,000 euros.
The Bernstein Trio was founded in 2022 with Roman Tulchynsky (violin), Marei Schibilsky (cello) and Julia Stephan (piano). The three musicians met at the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School in Berlin and are now studying at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. As an ensemble, they receive lessons from Prof. Jonathan Aner at the Eisler Centre for Chamber Music.
Following the Viatores Quartet's success at last year's Mendelssohn Competition, the university has once again positioned itself as a leading institution for chamber music in the German music academy landscape.
The Bernstein Trio has worked with artists such as Antoine Tamestit, Valentin Erben, Dirk Mommertz, the Artemis Quartet and the Vogler Quartet at masterclasses in Germany, France and Switzerland. In 2023, the trio made its debut at the Rheingau Music Festival, where it received the HA Hessen Agentur GmbH sponsorship award. At the 2024 German Music Competition, the trio was awarded a scholarship in the German Music Competition concert funding programme and a special prize from the Friends of Young Musicians Meerbusch Düsseldorf e.V.
The Bernstein Trio has been a member of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin association since 2022. All members of the ensemble are scholarship holders of the German National Academic Foundation.