“One night we were in Florence, walking by the river Arno and we discovered that Sheliak was right over our heads at that moment.
A star from the Lyrae constellation representing string instruments, Sheliak is for us the union between strings and piano.“
Founded in Florence in 2019, Trio Sheliak is passionately dedicated to chamber music: three different personalities come together in a single sound organism based on intuition, empathy and trust. Celebrating curiosity, listening and creativity, the Trio seeks in the connection with the audience the core of its musical intention, escaping the concept of absolute music and rediscovering the human in it.
Winner of the prestigious Premio Abbiati 2024, over the years they have received numerous awards, including the Third Prize at the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award 2024, the Alberto Burri Prize 2023, the Luigi Nono Prize 2023 (with a special prize for contemporary music) and the Filippo Nicosia Prize 2022.
In 2020, the Trio moved to Switzerland and in 2024 they obtained the Master Specialized in Chamber Music with top marks at the Bern Hochschule in the class of Patrick Jüdt, and at the Luzern Hochschule in the class of Hiroko Sakagami and Isabelle van Keulen, receiving the ST. ART prize reserved for young talents from the canton of Lucerne for the special quality of their performance of contemporary music, and the prize of the Jürg Müller Stiftung as the best chamber group at the Hochschule in Bern, thanks to which they gave a concert with Daniel Sepec and Patrick Jüdt.
They are currently attending the CAS with Patrick Jüdt at the HKB in Bern and they are following Ivan Rabaglia‘s Chamber Music course at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Chamber Music Master with the Trio di Parma and Pierpaolo Maurizzi at the Conservatory of Parma. The Trio is a member of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) and the Le Dimore del Quartetto network, from which it was also awarded Ensemble of the Year 2022.
Over the years, the Trio has attended the Stauffer Center with the Quartetto di Cremona, courses at the Accademia Chigiana, the Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland and the ECMA, where they had important encounters with Hatto Beyerle, Alfred Brendel, Clive Greensmith, Cuarteto Casals and the Kuss Quartett.
Trio Sheliak has performed at numerous festivals including Chamber Music Trieste, Lingotto Musica, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Società dei Concerti di Trieste, Les Jardins Musicaux, Bühnen Bern, Piano Trio Fest, KKL Luzern. In January 2024 they made their debut in China with a concert tour between Beijing and Chongqing.
Emanuele Brilli
violin
I grew up with the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole as my second home, the place that made me realise that music teaches life.
I then moved to Lugano to continue my studies with Klaidi Sahtçi, who passed on a great passion to me: I can still hear his advice in my ears when I study!
The Luzerner Sinfonieorchester Academy allowed me to meet great conductors and to participate in the Lucerne Festival, with an orchestra that welcomed me like family.
With the Trio, we just concluded a wonderful journey in Lucerne and Berne, sharing life and passion for music, and so many kilometres!
Matilde Michelozzi
cello
I began my studies in Italy, graduating with top marks in Florence and then specialising in various academies with teachers such as Dindo, Sollima and Delepelaire.
I have worked in various orchestras and have always played a lot of chamber music, my great passion.
A few years ago, I made a decision that definitely changed my life: I moved to Switzerland to begin a Master Performance in cello with Patrick Demenga.
I then decided to devote myself fully to chamber music, always together with my partners of Trio Sheliak!
I love walking in the fresh air and discovering the cities I travel to for work. For me, music is energy, instinct and sharing.
Sergio Costa
piano
My passion for music emerged very early, within the walls of my home, where I made my first harmonic experiments on my sister’s keyboard. Fascinated by polyphony since childhood, my path took me from the Conservatory of Florence to Piedmont and then to Switzerland, to study with pianists such as Enrico Pace and Anna Kravtchenko, and then to Lucerne and Bern, following the shared ideal of chamber music together with my Trio partners.
I enjoy making music enchanted by the magic of musical language and playing together, and I occasionally turn into a keyboard player and love to range between genres.
Always passionate about technology, astronomy and space exploration, when I’m not thinking about notes I love to lose myself in those distant worlds and immerse myself in nature as an improvised cyclist or hiking enthusiast.