introduction of the trio and the players

Gelius Trio – Munich Philharmonic orchestra

Violin: Sreten Krstic (First concert master of the Munich Philharmonic)
Violoncello: Michael Hell (First solo cellist of the Munich Philharmonic)
Klavier: Micaela Gelius

The trio was founded in 1999.
It has become a wellknown piano trio and has been making tours through Europe and America with great succes.

Besides many radio station recordings the trio has made three CDs:

· Portrait of the woman composer Dorothee Eberhardt (Melisma 1999)
· Piano and chamber music of Clara Schumann (Arte Nova 2000)
· French Piano Trios (Arte Nova 2002)

Sreten Krstic plays a violin made by Nicolaus Gagliano and Michael Hell a cello made by his brother Januarius Gagliano in the year 1736.
The great repertory of the Gelius Trio encludes trios from the classic to the contemporary period.

Sreten Krstic, Violin

has been a member of the Munich Philharmonic since 1980 (since 1982 as first concert master).
Born in 1953 in Belgrade, he began playing the violin at the age of seven and completed his musical studies 14 years later in Belgrade under Prof. Toskov and Prof. Pavlovic. Already a year earlier he has won a prize in the international music competition “Jeunesses Musicales” in the violin and piano duet category. Three years later he won the international competition in Belgrade in the violin category and in addition received a special prize for his interpretation of Bach´s solo sonatas. Concert tours have taken Sreten Krstic through Europe, Japan, the USA und the USSR. He has been invited to make recordings for the WDR (West German Radio) BR (Bavarian Radio) and BBC in London, and has played in every radio and television studio in Yugoslavia. As a soloist he has played in concerts with Sergiu Celibidache, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Horst Stein, Vaclav Neumann and Dmitrij Kitajenko, amongst many others.

Michael Hell, Cello

was born into a family of musicians in Vienna. He studied the cello at the Wiener Musikhochschule in Prof. Tobias Kühne´s masterclass, and completed his studies with a distinction in 1980. In 1981 the Munich Philharmonic engaged him as a first solo cellist. As a soloist Michael Hell has played cello concertos under well-known conductors such as Christoph von Dohnanyi, Herbert Blomstedt, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Dmitrij Kitajenko and Maxim Shostakowich amongst many others. For many years, under the guidance of Sergiu Celibidache, he has also worked to acquire the phenomenological aspects of the music. As a soloist, chamber musician and teacher Michael Hell has travelled in many European countries, Southn America and, regularly, Japan, and has participated in numerous festivals, as well as in CD, radio and television recordings.

Micaela Gelius, Piano

prizewinner of the "Jugend musiziert" competition - appeared a number of times as soloist with the Munich Symphony Orchestra even before she started her studies.
After high school graduation, she studies, besides music education, song accompaniment with Erik Werba and Helmut Deutsch in Munich.
She continued her soloist studies at the Würzburg Musikhochschule (College of music) in the piano classes of Margarita Höhenrieder and Erich Appel, graduating with an artist´s diploma. Numerous master classes and a scholarship from the International Society for Chamber Music complemented her studies. An extensive concert career followed as soloist, chamber muic partner, and song accompanist in Europe and Asia and America with appearances at prestigious music festivals (for example, at the 2nd International Music Festival in Peking). Numerous world premieres and her commitment to contempory and non-European music (ROTER PHOENIX) show the many-sidedness of her repertoire, which is documented by numerous recordings for radio, television and CDs (Arte Nova, Melisma, Cavalli, Salto, Bayer, and for Peters-Verlag). Since November 2003 Micaela Gelius is instructor of piano at Augsburg University.

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