Delta Piano Trio2017/2018

From Trio to Quartet With Hed Yaron Mayersohn

Hed Yaron Mayersohn

L. Boccherini: String trio Op. 47 No. 1L. van Beethoven: Piano Trio Op.1 No.3 in c minor

-------R. Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47

Hed Yaron Mayersohn (Tel Aviv, 1989), has already enjoyed an impressive career. Recently appointed as first assistant concert-master of the RotterdamPhilharmonic Orchestra, Hed was a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra the two years prior to that.

His early interest in singing led to solo performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and other Israeli orchestras and choirs as a boy soprano. He startedplaying the violin when he was four years old. While studying at the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts he had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with theschool's orchestra on tour in Israel, France and Switzerland. He also appeared as a soloist with other Israeli orchestras. After graduation from the JerusalemAcademy of Music and Dance, where he studied with Hagai Shaham and Ludmila Feldman, Hed moved to Germany to continue his studies with leading teacherssuch as Ana Chumachenco, Igor Ozim, Nora Chastain, Yair Kless and Reinhard Goebel, who is currently his mentor for historically informed performancepractice on baroque violin at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

During his studies he was supported by organisations such as Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, Freunde Junger Musiker and the Rahn foundation and receivedprizes at the Verbier Festival Academy, the Aviv competition and other occasions. Driven by his curiousity and interest in different kinds of music heparticipated in the European Chamber Music Academy, the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the OAE experienceas well as concerts of improvised music and dance. His involvement in the orchestra academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra meant that he was able totake part in numerous performances, recordings and tours of the orchestra as well as chamber music concerts. Hed is recipient of scholarships from severalfoundations including the AICF, the Ronen foundation, the Zisapel foundation and Zfunot Tarbut.

Programme

Over the past few years, we have had the chance to travel the world and meet artists of all ages, nationalities, genres and disciplines. Many of these encountersresulted in interesting exchanges of experiences, knowledge and inspiration and they often also lead to new and exciting collaborations, of which this projectwith the young Israeli violinist and violist Hed Yaron Mayerssohn is a great example. As is so often the case in life, it was complete chance that brought ustogether in Salzburg, the small Austrian city where we founded our trio. Through a common friend we heard about Hed, the new kid in town, an extremelytalented guy who had just arrived from Berlin… To tell you the truth, the talent referred to wasn’t limited to music, but also involved Hed’s quite extraordinaryartistry in the field of Mediterranean cuisine. This talent we soon got exposed to had more to do with pans and pots than with strings and bows - sitting at a tablepacked with dishes we made together we could very quickly tell we had shared not only musical ideals - but also a healthy appetite and a joy of flavours. Hedseemed almost equally eager to serve us home-made Hummus as he was to exchange ideas about music. A nice guy, we thought. Throughout history there hasbeen an intrinsic link between good food and good music and this again proved to be true. Those evenings of collaborative cooking inevitably led to the unpackingof instruments and a few hours of wine-fuelled sight reading. Since then, we have absolutely loved getting to know him both as a musician and a friend and hehas played with us in all kinds of combinations from duo up to quartet, both as a violinist and a violist.

Hed is an all-round musician, who is equally at home in baroque, classical, romantic and contempory repertoire. Apart from playing modern violin and viola, healso regularily performes on period instruments. He has an impressive historical knowledge about baroque and early classical performance practice, canimprovise and has a very natural artistic instinct for music of this period. As a piano trio we rarely have a chance to perform such early music (the pianotriogenre simply did not yet exist at the time) so for this special programme we will take the opportunity to play a string trio by Boccherini, one of the Italian mastersof the late baroque and early classical style. We continue chronologically with one of Beethoven’s first published works: his Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3. After theintermission and at the heart of this programme we have chosen one of our personal favorites: Schumann’s Piano Quartet.

From pans and pots to strings and bows

Gerard Spronk, violinHed Yaron Mayersohn, viola

Irene Enzlin, celloVera Kooper, Piano