Claremont Trio

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.^[1] They have performed at the Kennedy Center, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Joe's Pub^[2] and the Mostly Mozart and Bard Music festivals.^[3]

Claremont Trio
The Claremont Trio (left to right: Emily Bruskin, Andrea Lam, Julia Bruskin) perform at the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in 2015
Occupation	Piano Trio
Awards	Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award Young Concert Artists International Auditions
Musical career
Origin	New York City, New York, United States
Genres	Classical
Years active	1999 (1999)-present
Labels	Arabesque Tria Ongaku Bridge American Modern Recordings
Members	Emily Bruskin, Julia Bruskin, Sophiko Simsive
Past members	Donna Kwong, Andrea Lam
Website	claremonttrio.com

Discography

• 2004 Mendelssohn Trios Op. 49 & 66. Arabesque^[4]
• 2006 Shostakovich & Arensky Trios. Tria^[5]
• 2008 American Trios, trios by Zwilich, Kirchner, Bates, and Schoenfield. Tria^[6]
• 2009 Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio with Jonathan Cohler (clarinet), trios of Beethoven and Brahms, and sextet by Dohnanyi. Ongaku^[7]
• 2010 Beethoven & Ravel. Tria^[8]
• 2012 Beethoven Triple Concerto, Op. 56; Trio in E♭ Major, Op. 1, No. 1. Bridge^[9]
• 2017 Spheres: Music of Robert Paterson. American Modern Recordings^[10]