ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ahn Trio - Piano trio
With cello, piano and violin, sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella Ahn are constantly redefining the art and architecture of chamber music.

Why you should listen

Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard, cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, and violinist Angella Ahn are breathing new life into the standard piano-trio literature. They’ve commissioned works from visionary composers such as Michael Nyman, Maurice Jarre, Pat Metheny, Paul Schoenfield, Mark O’Connor, Kenji Bunch, Nikolai Kapustin and Paul Chihara. The trio’s latest CD is Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac, a showcase of this vibrant and original music. The trio has been touring for a decade, and have made six albums so far, five for major labels; for Lullaby, the trio formed their own production company, L.A.M.P. (Lucia Angella Maria Productions) to self-produce.

The Ahn Trio has fused their work with that of dancers, pop singers, DJs, painters, installation artists, photographers, lighting designers, ecologists and even kite makers; recently, they performed in the Czech Republic with rock group the Tata Bojs to sold-out shows.

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TEDWomen 2010

Ahn Trio: A modern take on piano, violin, cello

Ahn Trio: En moderne fortolkning af klaver, violin, cello

Filmed: 2010-12-08

Readability: 3.9

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De tre Ahn-søstre (cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, violinist Angella) puster nyt liv ind i klavertrioen med deres lidenskabelige musik. Ved TEDWomen startede de med en lys og legende "Skylife" af David Balakrishnan, herefter spillede de en smuk, beroligende version af "Oblivion" af Astor Piazzolla.

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AngellaKirstine AhnAhn: Thank you.

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Angella Ahn: Mange tak.

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sharingdeling our musicmusik with you.

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What an excitingspændende and inspiringinspirerende eventbegivenhed.

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What you just heardhørt is "SkylifeSkyLife" by DavidDavid BalakrishnanBalakrishnan.

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It's by AstorAstor PiazzollaPiazzolla, an ArgentineArgentinske composerkomponist.

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that he thought musicmusik should be from the hearthjerte.

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wasn'tvar ikke the mostmest popularpopulær thing in the classicalklassisk musicmusik worldverden.

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It was more atonalatonal and twelve-tonetolvtonemusik.

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And he insistedinsisterede on beautifulsmuk musicmusik.

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So this is "OblivionOblivion" by AstorAstor PiazzollaPiazzolla.

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Translated by Simon Djernæs
Reviewed by Sune Vilsted

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ahn Trio - Piano trio
With cello, piano and violin, sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella Ahn are constantly redefining the art and architecture of chamber music.

Why you should listen

Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard, cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, and violinist Angella Ahn are breathing new life into the standard piano-trio literature. They’ve commissioned works from visionary composers such as Michael Nyman, Maurice Jarre, Pat Metheny, Paul Schoenfield, Mark O’Connor, Kenji Bunch, Nikolai Kapustin and Paul Chihara. The trio’s latest CD is Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac, a showcase of this vibrant and original music. The trio has been touring for a decade, and have made six albums so far, five for major labels; for Lullaby, the trio formed their own production company, L.A.M.P. (Lucia Angella Maria Productions) to self-produce.

The Ahn Trio has fused their work with that of dancers, pop singers, DJs, painters, installation artists, photographers, lighting designers, ecologists and even kite makers; recently, they performed in the Czech Republic with rock group the Tata Bojs to sold-out shows.

More profile about the speaker
Ahn Trio | Speaker | TED.com

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