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Since its formation in 1994, the award-winning Gemini Piano Trio has enjoyed the vigorous applause of audiences from Los Angeles to Boston. Of a recent performance, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the trio performed with "an almost uncanny musical closeness," and that they seemed like "mind readers, anticipating each other's every move." The members of the exciting young chamber ensemble are violinist Sheng-Tsung Wang and pianist Hsiu-Hui Wang (brother and sister, respectively), and Ms. Wang's husband, cellist Benjamin Myers. Possessing an innate sense of ensemble, the Gemini Piano Trio is one of the few professional family chamber groups on the concert circuit.
Within the first few months of their existence, the Gemini Piano Trio quickly distinguished themselves by winning both the Maryland State and Eastern Regional MTNA Chamber Music Competitions. Encouraged by their early success, the trio began intensive chamber music studies with Raymond Hanson, David Wells, Anne Koscielny, and Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet. In 1997 the trio took prizes in both the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards as well as the fiercely-competitive Chamber Music Yellow Springs National Competition. In 1998, the Gemini Piano Trio was selected through a nationally-competitive audition to be one of the three chamber ensembles featured at La Jolla Chamber Music Society's SummerFest. There, the trio worked with world-class artists such as Cecile Licad, Cho-Liang Lin, Joseph Kalichstein, David Finckel, Wu Han, Ida Kavafian, Gilbert Kalish, and Menahem Pressler. Most recently, the trio has released their first CD on the AW label which features music of Brahms and Ives, available online at Barnes and Noble and Tower Records.
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