"Simply World Class" is the description made by the German press of London Piano Trio. For the past 18 years London Piano Trio have been touring, recording, and teaching across the globe to rave reviews. Upcoming tours include a 10 city tour of China in 2016 and a Far East Tour in 2017.

At home they have been described as a "National Treasure". They were artists in residence at the Gibbs Music Festival from 2008 - 2014 and current activities include amongst other things, a residency at St John's Smith Square in London, featuring a critically acclaimed 2015 Beethoven Cycle.

Their interest in promoting English music has resulted in them recording the complete trios of Donald Francis Tovey, Henry Cotter Nixon, and Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, with many premiere performances in places such as Dubai, Singapore, Manila, Naples, and Paris. They have actively commissioned works by composers such as Christopher Gunning, Jed Balsamo, Gavin Bryers, Constantin Papageorgiou, Giya Kancheli and Philip Glass.

 

ROBERT ATCHISON was born in London and studied music from a young age. His teachers included Sheila Nelson, Bronislaw Gimpel at the Royal Northern College of Music, Emmanuel Hurwitz at the Royal Academy of Music and Maurice Hasson. In 1982 he was a finalist in the Abbado International Competition in Milan, Italy. Mr. Atchison has given concerto performances and recitals in the USA, South America, the far East, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Ireland. In 1983 Mr. Atchison made his concerto debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall playing the Beethoven concerto and in 1984 at the Barbican with the Vivaldi Four Seasons. He joined the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1984 and remained there until 1990. From 1991 to 1997 he was a member of all three orchestras of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and was co-principal to Iona Brown. In 1993 he was appointed Director of the Spanish Chamber Orchestra, appearing frequently as soloist. Since then he has had a busy chamber and solo career. Mr. Atchison is Violinist with the critically acclaimed London Piano Trio and tours regularly with them throughout the UK, Germany, Spain and the Far East. Plans for 2008 include a tour of Canada and the United States. He is also in demand as a freelance leader in the United Kingdom and Europe. He is Leader of the Disney production The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre in London. Mr. Atchison’s recordings include the Telemann Twelve Fantasias and the complete Sonatas and Partitas of J. S. Bach for the Altamira label. Also on Altamira he has made many recordings with London Piano Trio including the recently released Complete Piano Trios of Armstrong Gibbs. Future recordings for 2010 - 11 include two violin and piano recital albums and the two Mendelssohn concertos and the world premiere recording of violin and orchestral works by Cotton Nixon for Dutton Records. He was also Artistic Director with Renato Bossa of the International Music Series at the Certosa di Capri, Italy, from 2006-2009. Mr. Atchison was recently appointed as the Artistic Director of the new Gibbs Festival in Danbury, Essex. The Festival’s inaugural season was 2008, and the next festival is in 2012. Last year saw the release of the complete works for violin and piano by Armstrong Gibbs on the Guild label, with Mr Atchison and Olga Dudnik. And this year Atchison released The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi with his own Altamira Chamber Orchestra with Sir Michael Gambon narrating the Sonnets, which has received rave reviews from magazines such as Gramophone.

 
DAVID JONES was born in Shrewsbury. Although he began playing the cello from an early age he was initially drawn to the sciences and chose to read chemistry at Salford University before deciding to pursue a career as a 'cellist. He joined the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester under the tutelage of Moray Welsh. During this time he attended master classes in Perugia, Italy under David Geringas and also succeeded in becoming a finalist in the LSO Shell strings competition. After completing his degree David held the position of Co-Principal ‘Cello first in the Halle and then in the Philharmonia Orchestra where he played the solos on many recordings including Tchaikovsky’s 2nd piano concerto with Barry Douglas (piano) and the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies conducted by Leonard Slatkin. David was the ‘cellist in the London Ensemble from 1994 to 2005 and made regular trips to Japan to great critical acclaim. Apart from recitals and other chamber music concerts David has given performances of several works from the concerto repertoire including Dvorak, Boccherini, Brahms Double Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. In 2002 David was appointed Associate Principal ‘Cello of the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, and in the spring of 2009 he joined London Piano Trio.

OLGA DUDNIK was born in the Ukraine into a family of professional musicians. From an early age she has been giving concerts in the most prestigious musical venues throughout the Soviet Union. She studied at the Special Music School for Gifted Children where she received the Gold Medal for Excellence and at the age of 16 she won the Ukraine Piano Competition. In 1990 Olga continued her studies with Professor A.Volkov at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University and since 1993 she moved to London where she undertook Advanced Solo Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Professor J.Gibb. Upon completion of the course Olga was awarded the "Premier Prix", later she continued her studies at the Royal College of Music with Professor I.Zaritskaya, where she gained her Masters Degree (MMus) in Advanced Performance.In competitions Olga is especially proud of the 1st prize in the Arianne Katz Competition and prizes in the Young Soloist of the Year Competition (1996) and Hong Kong International Piano Competition (1997).In London Olga made her Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall debuts with a BBC live broadcast and has appeared with numerous orchestras including London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Her performances received great critical acclaim. Since 1999 Olga joined the staff at the Guildhall School of Music and combines a teaching career with a busy schedule of piano recitals, concerto and ensemble appearances across Europe. Her two solo CDs featuring romantic virtuoso works were received with great enthusiasm. Olga's interpretation of contemporary repertoire also attracted keen attention and her most recent recordings include W.Wallace’s Second Piano Concerto (2002), performed with the Slovak Radio Orchestra under Maestro Kirk Trevor and a Piano Concerto by the award winning British composer Christopher Gunning (2003). Both recordings are released on Albany Records label.