Harald Kosik Klavier
Verena Stourzh Violine
Hannes Gradwohl Cello

The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (www.haydntrioeisenstadt.at) will premiere the works and also perform the follow-up concerts during 2009. The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is one of the leading chamber music ensembles in Austria. The three musicians are renowned for their interpretation of Joseph Haydn’s works and have also made an outstanding name for themselves with performances of new music.
The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt will be the “musical ambassadors” of Joseph Haydn’s country.

The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt was founded in 1992.
Instruction in the chamber music class of the Vienna Academy of Music under Georg Ebert was followed by participation in master classes given by the Trio di Trieste. In 1994, the renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena bestowed on the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt the honorary diploma for the "best piano trio“ and an award for "the best foreign contribution" of the entire festival. This distinction led to their being admitted to the Scuola Internazionale di Musica da Camera del Trio di Trieste, which the ensemble attended for two years.
In addition to regular concerts in Austria, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has been on tour to Germany, Italy, France, England, Ireland, Hungary, Israel, Turkey and Switzerland. The ensemble has performed at music festivals worldwide such as the Klangbogen - Festival in Vienna, the Haydn Biennale Vlaanderen in Belgium, the Venyssel Festival in Denmark, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Haydn Festival in Japan.

Since 2002 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has worked together with the well-known and much loved Scottish singers Lorna Anderson (soprano) and Jamie MacDougall (tenor) on presenting all 429 Folksong Arrangements composed by Haydn both in the concert hall and on CD. This project, which is supported by a large number of sponsors, is supervised by the Scottish musicologist Professor Marjorie Rycroft from the University of Glasgow. This first ever complete CD edition of Haydn's Folksong Arrangements will comprise a total of 17 CDs. The first CD of the edition was released in May 2004.
In the same year the trio initiated a new concert series entitled ton.art.project which aims to be a platform for contemporary music within the context of other art forms.

Since 1995 the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has presented the exclusive concert cycle “The Piano Trio” at the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, held at the Haydn Hall of Esterházy Castle. The cycle features all 39 piano trios by Joseph Haydn as well as the principal works of piano trio literature. These partly unknown compositions have been recorded on a series of 8 CDs.

Apart from the trio’s annual concert series at the Haydn Festival in Burgenland the year 2006 was filled with a rich and varied programme.
2006 Austria celebrated both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. As part of the ensemble’s “Bachmann to Music” project the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt performed over 20 concerts in New York, Washington, Beograd, Dublin, Klagenfurt and Vienna.
Tours took the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt to the USA, Cyprus, Germany and Belgium.
Numerous CDs were recorded 2006: Schubert’s complete piano trios on 2 CDs, volume 8 of Haydn’s piano trios, 65 Scottish songs by Joseph Haydn together with Scottish singers Lorna Anderson and Jamie MacDougall on 3 CDs and a CD of the “Bachmann to Music” project.

2007 the concert cycle for the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt continues with all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano trios. Those trios will also be recorded on CD at the same time (5 CD-Box, CAPRICCIO).
Further recording activities will take place 2007: Joseph Haydn’s piano trios will be finished and the recording of Scottish songs be continued. The ensemble will also record Joseph Haydn’s Concertini and Divertimenti. The result of these major recording activities will amount to 14 CDs.
This year the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is going to receive the prize " Wiener Flötenuhr" awarded by the Vienna Mozart Community (Wiener Mozartgemeinde) for the complete recording of W.A. Mozart's Piano Trios.

Tours take the Trio to Kyiv, Sarajevo, Potsdam (Musikfestspiele Sanssouci), Hamburg, Bonn (Beethoven Festival), Malta, Turkey, the USA, England, Scotland and Italy.