Trio Karénine

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Founded in Paris in 2009, Trio Karénine bears the name of Tolstoy’s beautiful and emotionally honest heroine. The trio of Julien Dieudegard (violin), Louis Rodde (cello) and Paloma Kouider (piano) is acclaimed by critics and audiences for its musical integrity and passionate interpretation, and was the top prizewinner at the ARD International Competition in 2013. The group has performed in the world’s most prestigious halls, including the Philharmonie and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Frick Collection in New York, Salle Bourgie in Montréal, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater in Münich, and the Leiszhalle in Hamburg.
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"Trio Karénine, perhaps currently world's best piano trio..."
Online Merker
"The Trio Karénine were joint winners ... of the 2013 ARD Competition in Munich.... There’s an effervescence and litheness that underpins their approach (not for nothing are they named after Tolstoy’s heroine Anna Karenina, ‘for the life force she represents’).... A most impressive debut."
Gramophone
"The Karénines know how to bring Schumann’s music to life with talent and genius."
Resmusica
"With Trio Karénine one can experience an organic piano trio culture. The two strings are not covered by the piano but relate to it in intelligently modulated balance. In addition, all three musicians transition alertly and sensitively between their roles as soloists and accompanists."
Süddeutsche Zeitung
DISCOGRAPHY

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio op. 50

Released: November 21, 2025
Label: Mirare
Composers: Rimski-Korsakov, Tchaïkovsky

Chants de l'Isolé

Released: September 22, 2023
Label: Mirare
Composers: Hersant, Menut

Suk - Dvořák

Released: February 24, 2023
Label: Mirare
Composers: Suk, Dvořák

La Nuit Transfigurée

Released: February 19, 2021
Label: Mirare
Composers: Liszt, Schoenberg, Schumann

Chostakovitch / Dvořák / Weinberg

Released: October 12, 2019
Label: Mirare
Composers: Dvořák, Shostakovich, Weinberg

Fauré - Ravel - Tailleferre

Released: May 11, 2018
Label: Mirare
Composers: Fauré, Ravel, Tailleferre

Schumann: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2

Released: June 10, 2016
Label: Mirare
Composers: Schumann

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WATERCOLORS

Available: 2025-26; 2026-27
Whether it's Debussy's "La Mer", composed on the Channel coast, or Maurice Ravel's trio, whose sea-spray-filled writing is inspired by the Atlantic Ocean, so dear to Ravel, everything in these two works is nothing but swaying, changing luminosities and mysterious depths. During his almost 10-year stay in Paris, Joaquin Turina rubbed shoulders with these two geniuses of Impressionism, appropriating their colors and harmonies while highlighting the richness of Spanish culture.

Elegies

Available: 2025-26; 2026-27
Alternately melancholy and intensely lyrical, the slow movement of the Rimsky-Korsakov trio sets the tone for this elegiac evening. The two late Romantics Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky seem to be linked by astonishing correspondences in the two works on this program: dark, lyrical, sometimes facetious and often choreographic, Saint-Saëns' trio is a seductive kaleidoscope of sensations, demonstrating the French composer's great mastery. The dramatic intensity of this program culminates in Tchaikovsky's famous trio, written for his late friend Nicolai Rubinstein.

Lyricism and modernity

Available: 2026-27
This eclectically beautiful program takes us from the impressionistic overtones of Rebecca Clarke's wonderful, little-known music to the noble compositions of a late Brahms. In the second half, another splendid yet little-played work, Weinberg's incredible trio, a deeply moving work in which the outbursts merge with the cries of an oppressed people.

A Tribute to Beethoven

Available: Spring 2027
In homage to Beethoven on the 200th anniversary of his death, this program revisits two of the greatest masterpieces of his chamber music literature: the "Ghost" Trio and the "Archduke" Trio. The mischievous "Kakadu" Variations, preceded by their deep, serious introduction, complete this program, which reveals the full complexity and brilliance of the writing of one of the most fascinating of all great creators.

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