00:00 Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor with Sussex Newspapers, and it's
00:08 fantastic to think that we have the Sitt-Kvetsky Piano Trio heading our way for concerts in
00:13 Lewes and in Chichester, with a really lovely programme of Beethoven, Schubert and André.
00:20 Now André probably needs some introduction.
00:24 Yes, she is a wonderful Swedish composer that we came to explore actually last season when
00:32 we were looking at the programme for this season.
00:36 Her music is incredible, none of us knew anything she did, and she has two piano trios, and
00:43 we read both and loved both.
00:46 We for this particular occasion, we chose number two.
00:50 It's a wonderful work, definitely worth exploring.
00:52 What is it that makes it so wonderful from the inside as a musician?
00:55 Yeah, well, it's a late romantic, it's just very well written for the combination of the
01:01 violin, cello and the piano.
01:03 You can hear the romantic chords harmony, and at the same time, there's something very
01:10 Mendelssohn-y about it, very brilliant and romantic and youthful at the same time.
01:17 Yeah, and she definitely has her own voice.
01:21 So it's just a wonderful work.
01:23 And this comes at a great time for the trio, doesn't it?
01:26 You were saying that you're pretty much done next season in terms of booking and thinking
01:30 ahead, you're thinking ahead to the season afterwards.
01:32 Your feeling is that things are now pretty much returning to normal in the classical
01:37 music world.
01:38 Yes, we're very grateful.
01:39 I think after two years, both for audience and us, things are getting back to normal
01:46 and I think we all missed the buzz as musicians to play to live audience and creating this
01:55 special energy while in the live hall.
01:59 So yeah.
02:00 You say you absolutely need the audience there, don't you?
02:03 Absolutely, yeah.
02:04 It's the essential ingredient, isn't it?
02:05 We're inspired by the moment, we definitely need them.
02:09 But interestingly, you were saying that those years of the pandemic were at the same time
02:13 years of useful reflection, even though it was a whole time.
02:18 Yes, absolutely.
02:19 Because, you know, once you start to do a lot of concerts, somehow I feel one doesn't
02:26 have enough time to always reflect oneself, you know, because you're just kind of working,
02:31 working then on concerts.
02:34 And luckily, you know, had this luxury of time to really take it off from the kind of
02:41 the real world and give yourself space to, you know, even exploring other things in life
02:47 that maybe I would have never had time to do.
02:50 I feel all these little things help to build as a musician or how, you know, keep on developing.
02:56 So I'm personally very grateful.
02:59 And I think as a group also, you know, we all explored different, you know, things in
03:04 life and also different composers, different genre of literature, you know, cooking even.
03:10 So different things all add up as I think, you know, building up your personality.
03:16 And I think in the end, it all gives as a musician as well.
03:20 So we are all very grateful for that.
03:22 And possibly in retrospect, in hindsight, that was good timing because you're not that
03:27 far away, are you, from your 20th anniversary as a trio?
03:30 Yes, I know.
03:31 Which is major, isn't it?
03:33 Yeah, absolutely.
03:34 Yes.
03:35 And we just also finished recording actually the Beethoven Ghost, which we're programming
03:40 in it.
03:41 In Chichester, yeah.
03:42 And that will come out next season.
03:44 So yeah, it's, and the Schubert, of course, absolutely one of the, you know, most epic
03:50 chamber music work for a trio.
03:54 So with that landmark anniversary on the horizon, you've been together 16, 17 years already.
03:59 That's a good run, isn't it?
04:02 How do you account for the fact that you are still performing well, still thriving, still
04:07 enjoying each other's company?
04:08 Sorry, you got cut off.
04:09 Oh, sorry, I was just saying, how do you account for longevity as a trio that you have done
04:16 so well over such a long time?
04:19 Right.
04:20 Well, I think, you know, we all have to be passionate about it, which we still are.
04:25 It's, yeah, the passion you share and the repertoire you go through, you explore together.
04:33 We also commission your work.
04:35 And absolutely, yes, we've got to be professional.
04:38 Every concert, we have to give our best.
04:41 And yeah, we just keep at it and we still love it.
04:46 And I think that's so important, just the passion for the repertoire we have.
04:52 That sounds the best possible approach.
04:54 Really lovely to speak to you.
04:55 I hope you have a lovely time in Lewes and Chichester before the end of the year.
05:00 And good luck for that anniversary, which is really important.
05:02 Thank you.
05:03 Thank you.
