The Boulanger Trio has thrilled audiences and critics alike with its lively, subtle and passionate performances. It was formed in Hamburg in 2006, and just months later, in September 2007, the Boulanger Trio won the 4th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition. Recently the ensemble has performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and Heidelberger Frühling festival. In April 2008 the trio celebrated its debut at the Berlin Philharmonie, followed by invitations for concerts at the Cité de la Musique in Paris and Wigmore Hall London. “At the beginning of 2006, when we began to work on the programme for our first concert together as a piano trio, we immediately came under the spell of Wolfgang Rihm’s Fremde Szene III – a title which refers to Robert Schumann and his last piano trio – and the intensity of working on this piece quickly brought us closer together. Because of this it was logical to combine Rihm’s trio in our programming with Robert Schumann’s op. 110, especially because the complexity and layering of both pieces is equally fascinating. Robert Schumann is bound up inseparably with Clara Schumann, whom we placed at her husband’s side with her Piano Trio in g minor op.17.” (Boulanger Trio) "To be interpreted like this is the greatest dream of every composer." (Wolfgang Rihm in a letter to the Boulanger Trio)