Tempest Trio (Tempest Trio), Trio

Biography

Combining technical
mastery, expressive depth, and performance experience, pianist Alon Goldstein,
violinist Ilya Kaler and cellist Amit Peled join forces as The Tempest Trio to form one of the most promising young trios on
the international scene.  Each of these
acclaimed musicians is already pursuing an individual international career.

Alon Goldstein has played with
the Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Houston, Baltimore,
Seattle, Vancouver,
and Saint Louis Symphonies as well as the Los
Angeles and Israeli Philharmonic orchestras under such
conductors as Raphael Frübeck de Burgos, Peter Oundjian, Leon Fleisher and
Zubin Mehta. He performed at such prestigious venues as the Hollywood Bowl, the
Metropolitan Museum
and the 92 street "Y" in New York, Salle
Pleyel in Paris, the Mann
Center in Tel Aviv, and the "Purcell Room"
in London.
"Goldstein is simply profound" wrote the Washington Post after his Phillips
Collection debut in Washington
DC. Following his
triumphant return to the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "Such performances take a kind of courage so seldom
heard these days you want to hear him at every possible opportunity".

Ilya Kaler is the only
violinist ever to win Gold Medals at all three of the world's most prestigious
competitions: the Tchaikovsky, the Sibelius and the Paganini. He has been
compared to the likes of Heifetz and Perlman. He has performed with the Leningrad, Moscow, and
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestras, the Montreal Symphony, the Danish and Berlin
Radio Orchestras, and the Moscow
and Zurich Chamber Orchestras, among others. He recorded more than twenty CDs
for the Naxos label. Kaler's
recordings of the Paganini Caprices have been deemed by American Record Guide
to be, "in a class by themselves" combining "the perfection,
passion, and phrase-sculpting of Michael Rabin with the energy, excitement, and
immediacy of Jascha Heifetz."

Amit Peled was recently hailed by the American Record
Guideas"having the flair of the young Rostropovich". Following
his Wigmore Hall debut in London,
the illustrious Strad magazine highlighted his "bold and dramatically conceived
interpretations". Mr. Peled has been featured as guest artist in some of the
world's major concert halls including Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in NY
City, Salle Gaveau in Paris, National Auditorium
in Barcelona, Konzerthaus Berlin
and the Mann Center in Tel-Aviv. Among the orchestras
with whom he has collaborated are the European Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio
Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de
Catalunya, London Soloists, Jerusalem symphony, the Israel Chamber Orchestra
and the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra.

These three virtuosi bring
a new energy to the concert stage with their dynamic musical interplay and
spirit of collaboration. During the 2009-10 season The Tempest Trio will survey the piano trios of
Schumann and Dvorak in the prestigious Seattle Chamber Music Festival, as well
as at Washington DC's
Phillips Collection, Four Arts of West Palm Beach, Converse College,
and Sant Bani School.