Malvern Concert Club: The Aronowitz Piano Trio

Magnus Johnston violin
Guy Johnston cello
Tom Poster piano

Schubert Notturno in E flat, D.897
Schumann Piano Trio No.2 in F, Op.80
Schubert Piano Trio No.1 in B flat, D.898

Guy & Magnus Johnston and Tom Poster have worked together for almost twenty years and were founder members of the award-winning Aronowitz Ensemble, an ensemble of six strings and piano with which they continue to perform. The Aronowitz Ensemble’s flexible approach to programming chamber music meant that the trio repertoire was often included in the ensemble’s concerts. Indeed, piano trio concerts were much sought after, and as a result the Aronowitz Piano Trio was born, with the purpose of exploring in depth the outstanding music composed for this genre.

All members of the trio have a long history of distinguished chamber music partnerships and offer a wealth of mutual experience to bring to their concerts. As individuals and as members of ensembles, they have performed all over the world, in major concert series and international venues and at many festivals. The Aronowitz Piano Trio has performed throughout the UK and in Prague and the Netherlands. Highlights have included concerts at the Lammermuir Festival, with reviews describing the trio as “exquisitely refined” and “full of heroic energy”, and their playing as “a thing of wonder”.

The trio has recorded Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ Trio for the King’s College Cambridge label.