Duality

"Until it all completely dissolves": in conversation with the Oberon Trio An interview by Friederike Westerhaus "Duality" is the title of your new album. In your trio lineup, are you confronted with duality on a basic level? Jonathan Aner: All the time! A piano trio combines two different instrumental families: this is already something "dual". We even ask ourselves how the piano can form a unity with string instruments at all! But piano trio repertoire shows that it is possible. The combination is almost magical. Antoaneta Emanuilova: However, when I think of the three of us and our personalities, I find that we do not form a duality. We are three strong, proactive personalities: in our trio each one of us is autonomous, and we make music as equals. Henja Semmler: Perhaps a sort of duality is nevertheless at work in the very fact that the trio forms a unity, on the one hand, but is made up of three different personalities on the other. Of course we find it important to work together until we become homogeneous.