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The Salzburg Piano Trio
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Austria and Australia - Welcome to the Salzburg Piano Trio!
 Alfred Hill and Johannes Brahms – Australia and Europe – like the members of the Salzburg Piano Trio had to overcome thousands of kilometers on their way to their newest CD in order to find each other finally in Salzburg.
Scott (Violin) originally comes from Australia while Angelika (Piano) and Caroline (Cello) are from Austria. Together the three decided to cultivate the mainstream trio repertoire but also to feature unknown works, like the world premiere and first release of Alfred Hill’s trio in A Minor.
Concerts in Austria, Germany, Italy and Singapore reveal the Trio’s ambition to present international music for an international audience. Based upon this idea, the repertoire of the Salzburg Piano Trio includes “traditional” European chamber music as well as interesting works from composers such as Werner Pirchner, Charles Ives and Alfred Hill to name but a few.
Further CD-productions are being planned – the trio’s website www.SalzburgPianoTrio.com will keep you up-to-date on latest news and concert dates.
office@SalzburgerKlaviertrio.at
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Angelika Schopper
Piano
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Angelika Schopper (Piano)
 Angelika, born in Krems, received piano lessons from the age of five. While studying at the conservatory in Innsbruck, she was awarded several prizes from the "Jugend musiziert" competition as well as the "International Steinway competition".
From 1994 until 1997 she studied under Veronica Jochum at the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston. During this time she was also accompanist of the children's chorus for the NEC Preparatory school. In 1997 she received an Undergraduate Diploma degree from the NEC in Boston and returned to Austria, where she was a young scholar of the Goethe Stiftung, being supported through the Noemi-Nadelmann-grant.
She continued her studies under Prof. Alfons Kontarsky at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, now specialising in chamber music. She participated in master classes at the Mozarteum and summer sessions of the Vienna Musikseminar, the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum as well as the Cartusiana, studying with teachers such as Jose-Daniel Martinez, David Lutz, Menahem Pressler and the former Schönberg assistant, Leonard Stein.
Angelika finished her Masters degree in chamber music performance in the spring of 2001 and currently studies Cultural Management at the ICCM. She is a founding member of the Salzburg Piano Trio and appears with this ensemble in concerts regularly.
Angelika@SalzburgerKlaviertrio.at
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Scott Stiles
Violin
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Scott Stiles (Violin)
 Born in Sydney, Scott began studying violin at the age of five. On leaving school he was the youngest member to receive a scholarship to play in the ABC Training Orchestra and then the National Ensemble.
In 1990 Scott began playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as a regular casual and in 1992 was employed by the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Having studied at the NSW Conservatorium of Music under Chris Kimber, he decided to continue his study in Europe and in 1995 moved to Vienna. During this time he worked under the concertmasters of the Austrian Radio, Vienna Symphony and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and performed in masterclasses with members of the Vienna String Sextett and Zakhar Bron.
During his time in Vienna he made tours with many of Austria's leading ensembles within Austria and to Germany, Italy, Sweden, U.K., Bulgaria, Taiwan, Japan and USA. In 1997 Scott returned to Sydney and resumed working with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra ,Sydney Symphony, The Seymour Group and many film and television productions. His solo performances include concertos by Brahms,Beethoven, Bruch, Dvorak,Mozart and Tchaikovsky with the Beecroft Orchestra.
In December 2001 he returned to Austria and since January 2002 has been a 1st Violinist in the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Shortly after Scott was invited to join the Salzburg Piano Trio where he enjoys his great passion in playing chamber music.
Scott plays a violin by Marco Dobretsovich of 1925.
Scott@SalzburgerKlaviertrio.at
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Caroline Anna Moldaschl
Cello
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Caroline Anna Moldaschl (Cello)
 Caroline was born in Nuremberg. She started playing the cello at the age of four and later received several first prizes at the "Jugend musiziert" competition, while she was studying with Claus
Reichardt as the youngest guest student at the Nuremberg "Meistersinger Conservatory".
While being a multiple scholarship holder of the Alban-Berg-foundation, she switched from her cello teacher Walter Nothas at the Music Academy of Munich to Wilfried Tachezi at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Caroline participated in a CD recording with several members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which included a first recording of the Hofmann Horn Quintet, before she received her first concert diploma with distinction.
From 1998 until 1999 Caroline studied Japanese at the "Kyoto Gaikokugo Daigaku". In the year 2000 she received her Masters degree, again with distinction, from the University of Salzburg, where she studied linguistics.
In 2002 she finished her doctoral thesis on the Austrian media and advertising language and received her PhD in January 2003. Since August 2003 she works at Adhurricane Advertising where she is responsible for brand management.
In January 2004 she received her Masters degree from University Mozarteum with distinction after having passed her final concert exam in chamber music together with Angelika and Scott.
Caroline is a founding member of the Salzburg Piano Trio and the owner of a sixteen-year-old half-breed dog.
Under the pseudonym Anna Moll she has written the novel "Bellini, Bellini! Mord an der Scala" (ISBN 3-8311-2388-8, www.AnnaMoll.com).
Caroline plays a Cello by William Forster (London 1780).
Caroline@SalzburgerKlaviertrio.at
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