Gryphon Trio
{{Short description|Canadian classical music ensemble}}
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| origin = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| genre = Classical, World music, Latin American music
| years_active = 1993–present
| label = Analekta
| website = {{URL|gryphontrio.com}}
| current_members = *Annalee Patipatanakoon (violin)
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The Gryphon Trio is a Canadian classical music ensemble that has been nominated for several and has won three Juno Awards for its classical recordings released by the Analekta label. Its members are Annalee Patipatanakoon (violin), Roman Borys (cello) and Jamie Parker (piano).{{cite web |url=https://www.gryphontrio.com/bios/|title=Bios|website=gryphontrio.com|access-date=4 July 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/artistes/?gryphon-trio.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140428230201/http://www.analekta.com/en/artistes/?gryphon-trio.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 April 2014 |title=Artiste Archive |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
History
The Gryphon Trio was formed in 1993 by three members of the Faculty of Music of the University of Toronto, Patipatanakoon, Borys and Parker, and today it tours regularly throughout Canada, the United States and Europe.
Its 15 recordings for Analekta include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Lalo and Shostakovich and have expanded the number of recordings of the piano trio repertoires of these composers. In addition, the trio has commissioned and premiered more than 75 new works by contemporary composers.
The trio has received two Juno Awards for Classical Album of the Year: the first for its 2004 album Canadian Premieres, which features works by 20th-century Canadian composers, and the second for its 2011 recording of Beethoven's "Ghost" piano trio, Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 70, No. 1, "Ghost".John Terauds, [https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2012/05/29/cd-reviews-gryphon-trio-and-lestravagante-show-off-the-finest-art-of-chamber-music/ "CD Reviews: Gryphon Trio and L'estravagante show off the finest art of chamber music"], Musical Toronto (29 May 2012). Retrieved 4 July 2024.[http://www.soulshine.ca/news/newsarticle.php?nid=419 "CARAS Scores A Hit With 2004 Juno Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815054635/http://www.soulshine.ca/news/newsarticle.php?nid=419 |date=2016-08-15 }}. Soul Shine. 2004-04-05
It celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2003 with a performance in Toronto that included the North American premiere of a then recently discovered piano trio score by the Romanian composer George Enescu.
In 2008, the trio performed extensively the Greek-Canadian composer Christos Hatzis's multimedia composition Constantinople to international critical acclaim. Hatzis himself received a Juno Award for the writing of Constantinople.
In 2010, the trio launched its pioneering community outreach project 'Listen Up!' in Almonte, Ontario. 'Listen Up!' has been described as "a unique arts outreach initiative that engages an entire community in the composition of a new work for piano trio and choir".{{cite quote|date=July 2024}} With the support of the BMO Financial Group and other private sponsors, it has since travelled to Hamilton, Midland and Ottawa, Ontario.
In September 2011, with the Canadian soprano Patricia O'Callaghan, the trio released the album Broken Hearts & Madmen, which features songs by Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Lhasa de Sela and Elvis Costello alongside Latin American folksongs from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
The trio's most recent recording, For the End of Time (2012), with the Canadian clarinetist James Campbell, features the music of Olivier Messiaen, Alexina Louie and Valentyn Silvestrov and is its fifteenth CD for the Analekta label.[https://mkiartists.com/artists/gryphon-trio/ "Gryphon Trio"], Melvin Kaplan Incorporated. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
In 2016, the trio teamed up with McMaster University's LIVELab to research how musicians' body movements help them communicate and play as a group more effectively.{{cite web|publisher=CIFAR|title=Our Musical Brain|url=https://www.cifar.ca/events/our-musical-brain/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701174839/https://www.cifar.ca/events/our-musical-brain/|archive-date=2016-07-01|access-date=10 June 2016}}
Discography
- (1996) Haydn: Four Piano Trios (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-haydn-piano-trios.1505.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114757/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-haydn-piano-trios.1505.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=An 2 2013 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (1998) Dvorak – Mendelssohn: Piano Trios (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-dvorak-mendelssohn-piano-trios-piano-trio-in-e-minor-op-90-dumky-piano-trio-in-d-minor-op-49.1275.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114751/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-dvorak-mendelssohn-piano-trios-piano-trio-in-e-minor-op-90-dumky-piano-trio-in-d-minor-op-49.1275.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=Fl 2 3110 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2002) Mendelssohn – Lalo: Piano Trios (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-mendelssohn-lalo-piano-trios-piano-trio-in-c-minor-op-66-piano-trio-in-a-minor-op-26.1289.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429044147/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-mendelssohn-lalo-piano-trios-piano-trio-in-c-minor-op-66-piano-trio-in-a-minor-op-26.1289.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=Fl 2 3127 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2002) Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 1, Nos. 1 and 3 (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-beethoven-piano-trios-op-1-nos-1-and-3.1323.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114806/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-beethoven-piano-trios-op-1-nos-1-and-3.1323.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=Fl 2 3170 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2004) Canadian Premieres (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-canadian-premieres.1326.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429044243/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-canadian-premieres.1326.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=Fl 2 3174 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2006) Mozart: Complete Piano Trios (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-mozart-complete-piano-trios.1415.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114801/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-mozart-complete-piano-trios.1415.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=Album Archive |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2006) Shostakovich: Complete Works for Piano Trio/Silvestrov: Postlude DSCH (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-shostakovich-complete-works-for-piano-triosilvestrov-postlude-dsch.1439.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140428230151/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-shostakovich-complete-works-for-piano-triosilvestrov-postlude-dsch.1439.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 April 2014 |title=An 2 9854 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2007) Schubert: Complete Piano Trios (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-schubert-complete-piano-trios.1467.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114754/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-schubert-complete-piano-trios.1467.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=Album Archive |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2008) Christos Hatzis: Constantinople (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-christos-hatzis-constantinople.1441.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114812/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-christos-hatzis-constantinople.1441.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=An 2 9925 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2009) Tango nuevo: Piazolla, Dúran, Ginestera (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-tango-nuevo-piazzolla-duran-ginastera.1550.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013249/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-tango-nuevo-piazzolla-duran-ginastera.1550.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 September 2015 |title=An 2 9857 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2010) Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 1, No. 2; Op. 97 "Archduke" (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-beethoven-piano-trio-op-1-no-2-piano-trio-op-97-archduke.1570.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114810/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-beethoven-piano-trio-op-1-no-2-piano-trio-op-97-archduke.1570.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=An 2 9858 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2011) Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost"; Op. 11 (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-beethoven-piano-trios-op-70-no-1-ghost-op-11.1600.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429114740/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-beethoven-piano-trios-op-70-no-1-ghost-op-11.1600.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=Album Archive |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2011) Broken Hearts & Madmen (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-broken-hearts-madmen.1667.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429044246/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-broken-hearts-madmen.1667.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2014 |title=An 2 9870 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2012) Great Piano Trios (Analekta) (9 CD compilation set){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-great-piano-trios.1670.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140428235046/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-great-piano-trios.1670.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 April 2014 |title=Album Archive |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
- (2012) For the End of Time (Analekta){{cite web |url=http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-for-the-end-of-time.1716.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221224520/http://www.analekta.com/en/album/?gryphon-trio-for-the-end-of-time.1716.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 December 2013 |title=An 2 9861 |website=www.analekta.com |access-date=29 April 2014}}
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.gryphontrio.com/}}
- [https://outhere-music.com/en/labels/analekta Analekta official website]
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Category:Musical groups established in 1993
Category:Musical groups from Toronto
Category:Canadian classical music groups
Category:Classical music in Canada
Category:Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year – Solo or Chamber Ensemble winners