The art of piano trio playing

Abstract

The master’s thesis The Art of Piano Trio Playing consists of three parts which are the written part, the concert recording, and the composition part. The written part presents challenges and phases that a musician may run into and need to go through during the process of building interpretation in a piano trio. The main focus in the written part is in Uljas Pulkkis’s piano trio and the transcribed master class given by the composer. The second part is a live- recording of the Pulkkis’s piano trio performed by Elias Lassfolk (violin), Johanna Jaakkola (cello) and Pirkko Heikkinen (piano). The composition part includes excerpts from piano trio that I composed and it concludes the project.