For over four decades of success the world over, including many award-winning recordings and newly commissioned works, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio continues to dazzle audiences and critics alike with its performances. Since making their debut at the White House for President Carter’s Inauguration in January 1977, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature. As one of the only long-lived ensembles with all of its original members, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio balances the careers of three internationally acclaimed soloists while making annual appearances at many of the world’s major concert halls, commissioning spectacular new works, and maintaining an active recording agenda.

Known as leading interpreters of Beethoven, they regularly perform all-Beethoven recital programs as well as three-concert complete piano trio cycles in addition to the composer’s exuberant 'Triple' Concerto. The Trio also continues as major champions of living composers having added numerous works to the canon, including trios by Leon Kirchner and Andre Previn. Current projects feature the Trio plus guests; in addition to the Silverman Piano Trio No 2, 'Reveille', which they originally premiered with Sting at New York’s 92nd Street Y, current projects include new work by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellen Zwilich for Trio and clarinet, which will be heard at Lincoln Center in New York, Phoenix, AZ and in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center, where the Trio serves as Ensemble-in-Residence and Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Elegy with the composer on viola.

This release of Silverman’s Piano Trios mark their debut on the Signum Classics label. Their recordings include 'Passionate Diversions', works written for them by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich including her Quintet, Septet, and Trio on the Azica label and a double CD set of Schubert on the Bridge label. The Trio’s previous recording projects on Koch include a four-disc Brahms Cycle of the complete trios, Arensky & Tchaikovsky trios and a beloved two-volume set of the complete Beethoven Trios. In addition, Koch re-released many of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio’s hallmark recordings, including works of Maurice Ravel, Richard Danielpour and Dmitri Shostakovich as well as 'Legacies', which includes trios written especially for the group.

Musical America named the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio the 2002 Ensemble of the Year. The 2003-04 season was their first as Chamber Ensemble in Residence at the Kennedy Center, an honor which has continued to thrill the trio throughout subsequent seasons. They were awarded the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award by the Foundation for Recorded Music, in 2002 and in 2011.

Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson serve on the esteemed instrumental and chamber music faculty at The Cleveland Institute of Music, where they began teaching in 2012. Both Mr Laredo and Ms Robinson were professors at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for seven years prior. Joseph Kalichstein continued as a long-revered teacher at the Juilliard School of Music until his passing away on 31 March 2022.

In the words of American Record Guide: 'It’s a rare luxury to hear music-making of such integrity and joy, and an equally rare privilege to be party to such an intimate musical conversation.'