The Davidoff Trio, winner of the prestigious Parkhouse Award 2025 in London, is one of the most promising young piano trios on the European chamber music scene.
The trio has received numerous national and international awards and, in addition to the Parkhouse Award, has won prizes at the JOSEPH JOACHIM International Chamber Music Competition Weimar, the Gianni Bergamo International Award for Classical Music, the Folkwang Prize, and the Swiss Orpheus Chamber Music Competition. The ensemble also holds a scholarship from the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation and receives support from the Walter Kaminsky Foundation and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
The Davidoff Trio performs regularly on international stages and has been invited to festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Brixen Classics Festival, the Musikdorf Ernen Festival, and the Swiss Chamber Music Festival Adelboden, among others. Recordings of their concerts have been broadcast internationally, most recently on the SRF Kultur program. The trio is a member of the European chamber music network Le Dimore del Quartetto and has been selected as Ensemble in Residence at ProQuartet – Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre for the 2025–2027 seasons.
With the aim of bringing classical music to a broad audience through innovative concert formats and unusual venues, in January 2025 the trio inaugurated an interdisciplinary concert series in Mainz (Germany) — supported, among others, by the #MusikerZukunft scholarship from the Deutsche Orchesterstiftung — at the popular bar Nirgendwo, where they combined classical music with jazz and poetry.
Currently, the trio studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, within the Konzertexamen program with Professor Thomas Hoppe, thanks to the Dr. Manfred and Ursula Müller Foundation excellence scholarship, and at the International Institute of Chamber Music of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with Günter Pichler. The ensemble has also received significant artistic inspiration from Konstantin Heidrich (Fauré Quartet), Andreas Lehmann (Liszt Weimar Trio), Luc-Marie Aguera (Ysaÿe Quartet), and Yovan Markovitch (Ysaÿe Quartet, Danel Quartet).
Johannes plays the “Baron Knoop” violin by the Amati brothers (Cremona, 1590), on loan from the Swiss Maggini Foundation, and Christoph currently plays a N. F. Vuillaume cello from 1860, generously loaned by Daniel Geiss.
