Claremont Trio is a New York-based piano trio including Juilliard School alumnae Emily Bruskin (violin) and Julia Bruskin (cello), and Yale School of Music alumna Sophiko Simsive (piano). The group was founded at Juilliard in 1999, and made its performance debut at the 92nd Street Y, on the Upper East Side in 2001 after winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions that same year. In 2003, the trio also won the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award. They have performed at the Kennedy Center, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Joe's Pub and the Mostly Mozart and Bard Music festivals.
Discography
2004 Mendelssohn Trios Op. 49 & 66. Arabesque
2006 Shostakovich & Arensky Trios. Tria
2008 American Trios, trios by Zwilich, Kirchner, Bates, and Schoenfield. Tria
2009 Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio with Jonathan Cohler (clarinet), trios of Beethoven and Brahms, and sextet by Dohnanyi. Ongaku 2010 Beethoven & Ravel. Tria 2012 Beethoven Triple Concerto, Op. 56; Trio in E Major, Op. 1, No. 1. Bridge 2017 Spheres: Music of Robert Paterson. American Modern Recordings