In September and October 2025 Trio Isimsiz give the Australian debut of Francisco Coll’s Piano Trio (2021) as part of a nationwide tour, beginning at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Perth and succeeded by seven performances at venues including Adelaide Town Hall, the Queensland Conservatorium, City Recital Hall in Sydney, and the Melbourne Recital Centre. The tour is presented by Musica Viva.
The trio stemmed from a conversation between Coll and violinist Pablo Hernán a few years prior: “Pablo asked if I would write a piano trio,” Coll recalled in The Strad. “I thought it was a great idea. It was clear they wanted a substantial work.” Staying true to the trio’s request, Coll’s 17-minute work is rich in contrasting styles and influences, “a voyage between the familiar and unconventional”, he says. “I like to play with history”, Coll added. The trio recorded the work in 2023 on Rubicon.
It is a four-movement work of brilliant – but barbed – invention, taking in everything from allusions to Strauss’ Die schweigsame Frau to a Larghetto ‘imbued by melodic features from the flamenco’, and a ‘hallucinated fugue’ as well as fragments of tango.
The Piano Trio was commissioned for the trio by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (Madrid), and Britten Pears Arts. It premiered in January 2022 in Madrid and has since appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival and Wigmore Hall. In March 2026 the trio give the US premiere of the Piano Trio as part of a focus on Coll at the Phillips Collection. The concert, which complements their forthcoming exhibition Miró and the Unites States, also features national debuts of Sefarad for solo guitar with Jacob Kellerman and Madre, for solo piano - a 7-minute work created for the 2023 Iturbi piano competition that was the first in an ongoing cycle of pieces inspired by seminal Spanish paintings, with Madre drawing inspiration from the work of Joaquín Sorolla.