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Macquarie Trio Australia

Michael Dauth - Michael Goldschlager - Kathryn Selby

Macquarie Trio Australia is chamber ensemble-in-residence at Macquarie University, Sydney. Since 1993, the brilliant musicianship of Macquarie Trio Australia has delighted audiences across the country. In that time, they have established themselves as an Australian chamber music icon and a national treasure. Their meticulous precision and expressive strength has brought national and international critical acclaim, and they have revitalised the "Trio" as a distinctive, captivating and vital form of chamber music in Australia.

Macquarie Trio Australia presents extraordinary concerts in a warm, relaxed atmosphere, attracting an extremely dedicated and diverse audience throughout Australia. The ensemble currently offers subscription series in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra. Macquarie Trio Australia appears regularly at festivals such as the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, the Sydney Festival, and the Brisbane Festival, and has toured extensively for Musica Viva, nationally and internationally.

The ABC Classics label continues to produce and release a high-profile series of compact discs. Among these are works of Beethoven and Piazzolla, and the complete Piano Trios of Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Brahms. The Beethoven and the Schubert recordings were nominated as finalists in the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Award for Best Classical Release. Celebrating the composer's 100th anniversary in 2004, Macquarie Trio Australia has just released the complete Piano Trios of Dvorak, on ABC Classics.

Macquarie Trio Australia also reaches an enormous audience through national radio broadcasts of all of its performances on ABC Classic FM and the MBS FM network of stations.