War and Peace

Since their inauguration in 2012, the Wits Trio has become well-known throughout South Africa. In 2016, the Trio performed the complete trios of Johannes Brahms at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown to high acclaim from critics and audiences. At the Vryfees in Bloemfontein, they received an award for the Best performance of a new chamber concert programme. In March 2017, they were featured at a SAMRO concert at the University of Pretoria, where they performed the Wits Trio Tribute – a composition specially composed for them by the South African composer, Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph. The Trio has toured extensively throughout the Western Cape and the Karoo with the intention of bringing live classical music performances to venues outside of the major metropolitan areas. They performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto in September 2017 in Johannesburg. In 2018, Susan Mouton joined the Wits Trio as they undertook their performances of the piano trios of Franz Schubert. Since 2020, they have performed Beethoven trios in online concerts as part of the Beethoven celebration year, as well as the Mendelssohn and Piazzolla works for piano trio.