The Trio (repertoire and program example download)
Irina Shilina (dulcimer), Piotr Techmanski (clarinet / saxophone) and Hans Josef Winkler (composition / piano) are from three different countries and they have met in Detmold. The trio's many years of experience of the artists connects with the goal to make the audience familiar with various facets of different music. Here you can listen to different combinations of instrumental ensembles (duo cymbal - piano, duo clarinet (saxophone) - piano, duo cymbal - clarinet), which underlines the flexibility and versatility of the performers. Their wide repertoire includes tangos, transcriptions of romantic works, unknown classical music and original works by Hans Josef Winkler. Due to the unusual instrumentation, the trio is dependent on their own arrangements and transcriptions, which gives the sound a distinctive flavor. The cymbal gives the ensemble an accent. With its millennia old history as an instrument of the origins capable of links to numerous musical cultures on a global scale. It is also an interesting sonic symbiosis in combination with other instruments and ensembles. In the summer of 2011, the trio has recorded his first CD.


Irina Shilina was after her studies at the Academy of Music in Minsk a soloist at the State Belarusian Philharmonic. She has been honored with many prizes and awards. As a highly virtuosic specialist on her instrument she built in Germany, both in combination with different instruments (harp, accordion, flute) as well as with various orchestras, a more widespread repertoire and applies her variety in her native country Minsk now considered groundbreaking and pioneering. Since 2009 there is a collaboration with Hans Josef Winkler (piano), who composed some original works for piano & cymbal. The audience here in the West, she presents a previously relatively unknown instrument.


Piotr Techmanski worked after his studies at the Krakow Academy of Music several years as a member of the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra as a clarinetist and saxophonist. He is a multiple award winner and was honored by the French Government through a scholarship in the master class with Professor Ulysse Delecuse in Paris. As a soloist and chamber musician he has worked at international level. The versatile musician is in different styles to jazz at home.







Hans Josef Winkler studied composition, music theory, ear training and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. His teachers include Walter Steffens (composition), Gunther Herzfeld and Erika Kilcher (piano). He has won several composition competitions and is pianist of various musicians. His works includes compositions for piano, organ, accordion, electronics, chamber music, songs, musical theater, opera, choir and orchestra. His works go now performed internationally.