Trio DushkinThe Hong Kong Arts FestivalThe Hong Kong Arts Festival ( Music )

Trio Dushkin is a collaboration between three versatile musicians: David Fung, Best Performer of Chamber Music at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition; cellist Jonah Kim, who The Washington Post called “the next Yo-Yo Ma”; and violinist Dennis Kim - guest concertmaster on four continents with such conductors as Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti and Sir Simon Rattle.

The trio takes its name from violinist, Samuel Dushkin, a Polish expatriate who commissioned, premiered and transcribed numerous important works. Like Dushkin, these three fine artists are also expatriates, forging new ground for piano trio with original transcriptions, commissions and performances of new work.

The concert takes theme remembrance and tribute. Shostakovich’s somber composition remembers his friend Ivan Sollertinsky, and also all victims of war. Tchaikovsky famous Trio in A minor was dedicated “to the memory of a great artist”, his friend and teacher Nicolai Rubinstein, while Arvo Pärt’s Mozart-Adagioarrangement expresses the composer’s sorrow at the untimely death of violinist Oleg Kagan, his friend and renowned Mozart interpreter.