The piano trio is a relatively late arrival on the scene in the history of chamber music. When in the late eighteenth century, the first piano trios as we now understand them – with emancipated string parts that are assigned near-equal partnership with the keyboard – appeared, the string quartet was already well established as a genre. The development of the piano trio has been contingent upon the ways in which changes to the construction of keyboard instruments affected the nature of the inter-relationships between instruments and composers' responses. This conference aims to bring together researchers working on the historical, technical and performative aspects of the piano trio genre.
The keynote presentation will be given by David Owen Norris.
Conference Committee:
Mine Dogantan Dack (Chair – Middlesex University)
John Irving (Director of the Institute of Musical Research)
Peter Fribbins (Middlesex University)
Mieko Kanno (Durham University; Orpheus Institute)
Ferenc Szücs (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance)
Marianne Tyler Brown (Middlesex University)
