Rising Stars Chimera Trio (Italy)

Trio Chimera

Marta Ceretta, piano

Stefano Raccagni, violin

Giorgio Lucchini, cello

Trio Chimera was born under the guidance of Patrick Juedt at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern, and obtained a Master’s Degree in Chamber Music in 2023. In Italy, they studied with the Quartetto di Cremona at the Stauffer Center for Strings and completed the Postgraduate Degree at the Conservatorio “A. Boito” in Parma with the Trio di Parma.

Further musical inspiration brought out by their meeting with Mischa Maisky, Amiram Ganz (Altenberg Trio Wien), Antonio Meneses (Beaux Arts Trio) and Eckart Runge (Artemis Quartet).

The Trio is an official member of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), and thus has had the opportunity to study with Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), Vera Martinez Mehner (Casals Quartet), Jens Elvekjaer (Trio con Brio) and Ernesto Molinari (Ensemble Klangforum Wien).

In 2022 the trio was awarded Best Italian Ensemble at the Filippo Nicosia International Chamber Music Competition. In 2023 and 2024, they won 2^nd prize and the prize for the best performance of a contemporary piece at the “Luigi Nono” International Competition, and 1^st prize at the Lancaster International Piano Festival Competition. In 2025 they received 1^st prize at the Busan ICM Competition, in South Korea, and 1^st prize at the “Alberto Burri” Chamber Music Competition in Città di Castello.

The Trio performed in many European halls in Barcelona, Madrid, Budapest, Paris, and in Vilnius. In 2023 they had a concert in Addis Ababa with Simone Gramaglia, along with a masterclass for the students at the Yared University of Music. In 2024 they debuted in the U.S., with concerts in Washington DC and other cities. In Italy they have performed in Spoleto, Milan, Vicenza, Jesi, Vercelli etc..

In 2022, they were invited by the University of the Arts in Tirana (AL), for two concerts and a composition masterclass held by Johannes Kretz (MdW Wien), Jana Andreevska (Faculty of Music – Skopje) and Annelies van Parys (Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles). In 2023 they were ensemble-in-residence for the International Composition Competition Finzi Academy at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan. In 2025 they received the commission of a new piece by the famous Italian composer Fabio Vacchi.

Chimera is a creature from Greek mythology, threefold and allegorical. But not only that.

For us it is a tribute to Robert Schumann’s Grillen, precisely “chimeras” (the fourth Fantasiestück op.12), and to the poem La Chimera, by the Italian writer Dino Campana.