Who are these 3 beau­ti­ful ladies? Super­mod­els? Super­spies? Superheroes?

All of the above– but in their lunch hour, they are 3 daz­zling musi­cians who make up the “Trio D’Ante Vienna”.

What are they doing here? Well, firstly, they are a lot more attrac­tive than Igudes­man & Joo! (Well, at least to us, they are.) And more­over, they are per­form­ing Joo’s com­po­si­tion, “The Alek­sey Rev­o­lu­tion” in sev­eral of their con­cert pro­grammes this year. The first per­for­mance just took place at the Fes­ti­val de Radio France in Mont­pel­lier, and that con­cert will be broad­casted on Sep­tem­ber 14th at 12.30 on France Musique (also online  http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/accueil/)

The piece is inspired by Joo’s long-time friend and cre­ative part­ner, Alek­sey Igudes­man, and the piece is a kind of musi­cal por­trait of Igudes­man. Towards the end, Joo even uses a frag­ment from one of Igudesman’s early com­po­si­tions, (writ­ten at 5.30am).

This is the composer’s own pro­gramme note:

He comes from Rus­sia, his first love was Span­ish, he loves Indian food and music, he wrote a sonata for vio­lin and piano titled “The Bas­tard Sonata”, he per­formed my “Elegy” for my mother’s memo­r­ial con­cert, he always plays the same tune on the piano, and a few years ago, after two decades of friend­ship, we cre­ated a show that embraces com­edy with music enti­tled “A Lit­tle Night­mare Music”, which we are now per­form­ing all over the world. All these ele­ments are depicted in this piece, and the lis­tener is taken on a lit­tle rev­o­lu­tion through the rev­o­lu­tion­ary life of Alek­sey Igudes­man: vio­lin­ist, com­poser, cook, poet, come­dian, self-proclaimed expert on women and emo­tions, and the per­fect part­ner in crime.

Future per­for­mances of Joo’s piece, “The Alek­sey Rev­o­lu­tion”, by the Trio d’Ante Vienna, include:

August 14: Fes­ti­val de Musique de Men­ton, France at 18:00 (www.musique-menton.fr); Octo­ber 2: Muse­ums Quartier, Vienna; Octo­ber 18: Musikverein, Vienna. For more details, please visit the trio’s web­site: http://www.triodante.com

(By the way, all those siz­zling pho­tos of the 3 girls were taken by our own “in-house” pho­tog­ra­pher, Julia Wesely)