One rarely hears trios where all three instruments really blend with one another. In addition, they manage to create over and over again moments where you just hold your breath, or sit on the edge of your seat, or simply smile at the playfulness they effect without having to work at it.

Everything, really every human experience and emotion is tapped here, and for each of these moments, the ensemble finds an expression that gets under your skin.

It’s unbelievable the kinds of colours these musicians are able to conjure from their three single instruments.  In the middle is the solemn passacaglia in which they pitch the voices so accurately that it’s as if the counterpoint was all just a single, seamless line.  With so much finesse on display, it is no wonder that even between the movements there was not a single cough; rather, there was even further expectant silence. 

There was a huge cheer at the end for the young musicians ...

Christine Gehringer in Pamina Magazine 11 Mar 2010 Read MORE

Originally formed in January 2007 at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, The Saguaro Trio has burst onto the scene with stunning successes in the world’s most exclusive chamber music competitions. In quick succession, they placed third in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in the United States, and second in 6th Osaka International Chamber Music competition in Japan, both in May 2008. On 26 September 2009 they solidified their reputation as one of the most thoughtful and engaging young ensembles in the classical music world today by taking first place at the International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg, whose jury was lead by renowned Chamber Music virtuoso Menahem Pressler. In Hamburg, the Saguaro Trio also won the special prize for the best performance of a work by Brahms.

The Saguaro Trio has performed in the USA, Canada and Japan. They were awarded a place on the Claude and Pamela Frank Young Artists Concert, which included a performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Since winning the Hamburg Competition they have begun to appear throughout Germany and Scandinavia, have been broadcast on national radio, and have been invited to participate in the Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals. In 2010 they gave the world premiere of American composer Philip Maneval’s Piano Trio No. 2. This past Northern Summer, the Saguaro Trio was chosen as Ensemble-in-Residence for Ravinia’s Steans Institute.

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