Ferdinand Ries occupies a remarkable place in the history of music. He was famously a friend and pupil of Beethoven and a virtuoso pianist. His extensive oeuvre opened up the musical aesthetics of Viennese Classicism to Romanticism. Completed in 1826, the Piano Trio in C minor, op.143, features two lively, fast movements surrounding a poetic Adagio, reminiscent of the era’s finest opera arias. Very different is the Grand Trio in F minor, WoO86. It features four thematically interwoven movements that traverse emotions from despair to passion and eventual peace.

Since its foundation in 2019, Trio Egmont has combined historical awareness with radical freedom and a delicate sense of sound. In summer 2021, the trio won First Prize and the Ries Special Prize at the first international competition Beethoven in seiner Zeit for chamber music on historical instruments in Siegburg.

Concert tours have taken the musicians to Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy and Great Britain. The ensemble has performed at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Schumann Festival in Zwickau, La Nouvelle Athènes – Centre des pianos romantiques in Paris, the Erbdrostenhof in Münster and the Freunde Alter Musik in Basel.