Introducing the performers…

Yi-Shing Cheng (piano)
Eriko Nagayama (violin)
Joel Siepmann (cello)

Founded in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Trio Opal comprises prize-winning musicians from Taiwan, Japan and Germany. The trio have studied with world-renowned professors such as violinist György Pauk, cellist Christoph Richter and pianist Michael Dussek, and have participated in the ChamberStudio masterclass scheme at Kings Place, London with pianist Alasdair Beatson.

The trio were nominated by the academy to be its representatives in the 2018 Intercollegiate Piano Trio Competition in Birmingham, in which they took first prize, and were also chosen to attend the 2018 Trondheim Academy in Norway and the inaugural Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Festival held in November 2018. For the academic year 2018-2019, Trio Opalare also the acadamy’s Cavatina Trio in Residence.

Their a busy concert schedule has already taken Trio Opal to some of the UK’s top chamber music venues, including the Wigmore Hall, Colston Hall, St Mary’s Perivale, St Barnabas Church, Ealing, David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Angela Burgess Recital Hall and St Martin-in-the-Fields. They have also given concerts in France and Norway.

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