ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ahn Trio - Piano trio
With cello, piano and violin, sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella Ahn are constantly redefining the art and architecture of chamber music.

Why you should listen

Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard, cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, and violinist Angella Ahn are breathing new life into the standard piano-trio literature. They’ve commissioned works from visionary composers such as Michael Nyman, Maurice Jarre, Pat Metheny, Paul Schoenfield, Mark O’Connor, Kenji Bunch, Nikolai Kapustin and Paul Chihara. The trio’s latest CD is Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac, a showcase of this vibrant and original music. The trio has been touring for a decade, and have made six albums so far, five for major labels; for Lullaby, the trio formed their own production company, L.A.M.P. (Lucia Angella Maria Productions) to self-produce.

The Ahn Trio has fused their work with that of dancers, pop singers, DJs, painters, installation artists, photographers, lighting designers, ecologists and even kite makers; recently, they performed in the Czech Republic with rock group the Tata Bojs to sold-out shows.

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Ahn Trio: A modern take on piano, violin, cello

Ahn Trio: En moderne tolkning på piano, fiolin, cello

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De tre Ahn søstrene (cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, fiolinist Angella) blåser nytt liv i piano trioen med sin lidenskapelige musikkskapning. Ved TEDWomen starter de lyst og lekende med "Skylife" av David Balakrishnan, deretter spiller de en nydelig, forførende versjon av "Oblivion" av Astor Piazzolla.
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sharingdeling our musicmusikk with you.
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What an excitingspennende and inspiringinspirerende eventbegivenhet.
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wasn'tvar ikke the mostmest popularpopulær thing in the classicalklassisk musicmusikk worldverden.
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ikke var det mest populære innen klassisk musikk.
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It was more atonalatonal and twelve-toneTwelve-tone.
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Translated by Martin Hassel
Reviewed by Guro Sørumshaugen

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ahn Trio - Piano trio
With cello, piano and violin, sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella Ahn are constantly redefining the art and architecture of chamber music.

Why you should listen

Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard, cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, and violinist Angella Ahn are breathing new life into the standard piano-trio literature. They’ve commissioned works from visionary composers such as Michael Nyman, Maurice Jarre, Pat Metheny, Paul Schoenfield, Mark O’Connor, Kenji Bunch, Nikolai Kapustin and Paul Chihara. The trio’s latest CD is Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac, a showcase of this vibrant and original music. The trio has been touring for a decade, and have made six albums so far, five for major labels; for Lullaby, the trio formed their own production company, L.A.M.P. (Lucia Angella Maria Productions) to self-produce.

The Ahn Trio has fused their work with that of dancers, pop singers, DJs, painters, installation artists, photographers, lighting designers, ecologists and even kite makers; recently, they performed in the Czech Republic with rock group the Tata Bojs to sold-out shows.

More profile about the speaker
Ahn Trio | Speaker | TED.com
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