Trio Lys was founded in Norway in 2020 by Daniela Engel (clarinet, bass clarinet), Ema Grčman (cello) and Haike Dietrich (piano). The three musicians met in Oslo during their master's studies and have since performed together regularly in various formations. In addition to their extensive standard repertoire, they currently focus on classical and contemporary music from Northern Europe.
In their first self-organized concert project Lind:Berg, for example, they concentrated on the versatile chamber music of the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg and presented themselves at concerts in Norway and Switzerland.
In the 23/24 season, the Trio Lys will once again focus on music for clarinet, cello and piano from various Nordic countries. In their latest project “Day and Night” they send their audience on a musical journey through the times of day. They present duo and trio compositions by, among others, Kaija Saariaho, Jean Sibelius, Per Nørgård, and Emil Hartmann, as well as a commissioned composition by the Latvian composer Asja Ahmetjanova, who lives in Zurich. Self-designed visual effects emphasize the interplay of light and shadow, rich colors and darkness.
Daniela
Engel-Braun
Daniela Engel-Braun (*1994) grew up in the Zurich Oberland in Switzerland. From 2013 to 2018, she studied clarinet with Paolo Beltramini at the Lucerne School of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Master of Arts in Music Education, both with distinction. She then deepened her studies with Prof. Laura Ruiz Ferreres at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. From 2019 to 2021, she studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with Björn Nyman and successfully completed her Master of Music Performance.
She received further important impulses in master classes with Yehuda Gilad, Hermann Stefansson, François Benda, Kilian Herold, Martin Fröst, Harri Mäki and others.
"I want to inspire people through MY MUSIC"
As a chamber and orchestral musician she plays in the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra & Academy, Miami Music Festival Orchestra, Zermatt Festival Academy, Festival Orchestra Höri Musiktage, Norwegian National Youth Orchestra, Nordic Orchestra Academy, Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt, International Young Orchestra Academy and various other projects.
Since 2022 she has played in ensemble fokus (wind quintet) and Dissolution Ensemble (ensemble for contemporary music), and since 2024 in Trio Lys.
Daniela Engel is the winner of the Fritz Gerber Award 2021 of the Lucerne Festival and Fritz Gerber Foundation and the 2nd prize of the Concours National d'Exécution Musicale in Riddes 2016. With the ensemble fokus she is the winner of the "I. Kammermusikwettbewerb Paul Juon" 2023 of the Förderkreis Kammermusik Schweiz and the Paul Juon Gesellschaft.
She works as a freelance musician and teaches at various music schools in the Zurich region.
Ema
Grčman
Ema Grčman is a young, enthusiastic cellist and chamber musician from Slovenia. She studied with renowned cellists and teachers in Croatia (Valter Dešpalj), Austria (Julian Arp), Norway (Torleif Thedeen) and Switzerland (Thomas Demenga). She received further musical inspiration from Johannes Meissl, Eberhard Feltz, Hugo Ticciati, Alban Gerhardt, Marc Coppey, Henning Kraggerud, Claudio Bohorquez, Christoph Richter and many others.
A passionate chamber musician, she has performed at several prestigious music festivals in Europe, including the Stift Festival, Enescu Festival, Tartini Festival, Ljubljana Festival, Styrian Chamber Music Festival and the Davos Festival. Ema has a wide range of musical interests and has performed in various musical fields with classical and jazz musicians, given concerts for children and is very active in the contemporary music scene. With her ensemble catinblack, she has recorded works by composer Chaya Czernowin at IRCAM Studio Paris. She enjoys developing interdisciplinary projects, including with her ensembles Trio Lys, Quartensprung and Ensemble Aurorae. Her most memorable concert appearances include a debut in Ljubljana, where she performed the famous double concerto by Johannes Brahms with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
She is a member of several orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Between 2017 and 2021 she was an academy member of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss Orchestra. She often performs with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic Orchestra, O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra and has also played with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Orchestra Citta di Prato. In the 23/24 concert season, she is a trainee in the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
Haike
Dietrich
The German pianist and former neurobiologist Haike Dietrich has established herself as soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. In 2022 she made her debut with two of Norway's most famous orchestras: the Oslo Opera Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. She is passionate about creating her own concert projects that expand the traditional concert format and integrate other art forms as well as contemporary compositions. In addition to her diverse work as a freelance artist and pedagogue, she currently works as a répétiteur at the Norwegian Academy of Music and as a lecturer and pianist at a music high school.
Due to her sensitivity for tone balance and fine control over sound colors she has become a sought-after chamber musician and song accompanist and has worked with internationally renowned instrumentalists and singers such as Catharina Chen, Berit Cardas, Hans Christian Bræin and Silvia Moi. She has acquired a broad classical and contemporary lied- and chamber music repertoire, which is further expanded by her additional work as vocal répétiteur and choral/orchestral pianist to include also opera, choral and orchestral works.
Haike Dietrich began her pianistic training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich with Prof. Silke Avenhaus. For her master’s degree, she won a DAAD scholarship, which enabled her to study in the renowned Artist Diploma program of the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with Profs. Håvard Gimse, Marianna Shirinyan and Christopher Park. In addition, she plays the violin since early childhood and has completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience before studying music.
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