Expanding their musical horizons, the Trio has recently started performing Piano Quartet repertoire with the award-winning violist Jordan Bak. In addition to their extensive touring engagements, the Trio is involved in educational and outreach projects.

Recent and upcoming performances include Friends of Chamber Music Portland (OR), Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Newport Classical, VCU Arts, Chicago Chamber Music Society, ArtPower at UC San Diego, Concord Chamber Music Society, Friends of Chamber Music Miami, Harvard Musical Association, Ladies’ Morning Musical Club (Montréal), Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society, Music Worcester, Strathmore, and other notable series.

Hermitage Piano Trio began its multiple-album recording deal with Reference Recordings, debuting its CD titled “Rachmaninoff,” which featured Sergei Rachmaninoff’s two trios and his unforgettable Vocalise. Echoing many enthusiastic reviews of the “Rachmaninoff” recording, The Stradlauded the Trio’s “outstanding playing in intense, heartfelt performances,” and American Record Guide praised that “the Hermitage wants to burst forth with passion, to let the whole world know! I am really glad that someone can still play that way in our utterly unromantic age.” Their second album, “Spanish Impressions,” has the Trio exploring the rich and diverse musical heritage of early 20th century Spanish composers, including works by Arbós, Turina, Cassadó and Perelló. The album received broad critical acclaim, with Gramophone praising the Trio’s “impeccably dovetailed phrasing and hair-trigger rhythmic unanimity,” and Stereophile noting “the Hermitage Piano Trio sounds right at home with the color and verve of this music.” The Trio’s third album, titled “Dvorak’s Circle,” is scheduled for release in early 2026.

Doald Vroon selects this recording as one of his 2019 Albums of the Year.
American Record Guide (January / February 2020)


The Hermitage Piano Trio’s performances are superbly well done, and the extraordinary presence, focus, transparency, and depth of Keith Johnson’s state-of-the-art recording makes the players really shine. These are fine and outstanding young musicians, and this is a very promising debut album.
Fanfare (November / December 2019)

The Hermitage Piano Trio prove another strong contender within a catalogue of riches. The ensemble brings a darker, more brooding vantage point to the 19-year-old composer’s one-movement G minor Trio, tastefully stretching out phrases…while favouring relatively massive sonorities. … Thoroughly detailed annotations and ravishingly balanced surround-sound engineering lend further distinction to this release.
Gramophone (Awards Issue - November 2019)

Outstanding playing in intense, heartfelt performances. Striking the right balance between interpretative nobility and expressive candour is particularly challenging in music of such claustrophobic intensity, yet the Hermitage Piano Trio...proves fully equal to the task.
The Strad (October 2019)


[The Hermitage Piano Trio] sound Russian and romantic; they have ardor, but they are not pushy about it. This is best recording I have heard of Trio 1—and that goes for the sound as well. [In Trio 2] they simply give it the full brooding but ardent romantic treatment. … the Hermitage wants to burst forth with passion, to let the whole world know! I am really glad that someone can still play that way in our utterly unromantic age. Great recordings are still being made: there are fewer, but here’s a great example.
American Record Guide (September / October 2019)


The performances [on the Rachmaninoff disc] are as intensely satisfying as a concert hall experience...this album is among the most convincingly realistic recordings I've ever heard. Not to be missed.
The Absolute Sound (September 2019)


[The Hermitage Piano Trio] demonstrates to listeners what truly great performances of wonderful music are capable of conveying.
The Whole Note (September 2019)


The Hermitage Piano Trio has the full measure of this vivid and colourful music, chamber works which are not afraid to wear their heart on their sleeve – but never in a forced, sentimental manner. In fact, it is the muscle and sinew of these performances which render them virtually definitive. This absolute unmissable disc...makes for a superb listening experience - and not just for aficionados of Rachmaninoff.
Classical CD Choice (August 2019)


Violinist Misha Keylin, cellist Sergey Antonov and pianist Ilya Kazantsev combine into one intense vehicle to reveal all the drama, virtuosity and controlled combustion of [Rachmaninoff].
Boston Concert Review (July 2019)


A gorgeously tempered triptych of the Rachmaninoff melancholy yet inexpressively lovely sensibility.
Audiophile Audition (June 2019)


Painting with a perceptive but nonetheless firm brush a musical picture covering all shades from dark sienna to light blush. … wasn’t it high time to have both trios on one disc with detailed, historically informed liner notes and, as the proverbial cherry on the cake, a fine Vocalise arrangement as bonus? What more can one possibly ask for?
HRAudio.net (June 2019)


Truly splendid...all three members of the trio & their recording producer collaborating to present us with a superbly effective aural rendering of these early indications of Rachmaninoff's slowly blossoming compositional mastery.
MusicWeb International (June 2019)


The Rachmaninoff recording was chosen by the Classique HD (France) as Album of the Week!
Classique HD (June 2019)


This is the ensemble’s first recording, although its members have featured elsewhere as soloists – but the group’s impassioned, deeply involving beauty of phrasing and cooperation is worthy of trios that have been around far longer. The two [piano] trios receive absolutely splendid readings, filled with warmth and passion … as an exploration of the emotional depth that Rachmaninoff could extract…it is…an impressive achievement.
Infodad.com (June 2019)

How savvy to begin a programme of Spanish piano trio works with Enrique Arbós’s Three Pieces, Op 1, particularly with its boisterous opening Bolero. The Hermitage Piano Trio give their all, serving up liberal doses of idiomatic rubato and heel-kicking accents. …The musicians also deliver the most supple and shimmering rendition of the [Turina B minor Piano Trio] Molto vivace second movement on disc. … The three charming pieces by Mariano Perelló couldn’t be played better, or so it seems through the ensemble’s impeccably dovetailed phrasing and hair-trigger rhythmic unanimity. State-of-the-art production values and extensive booklet notes only sweeten this release’s unquestionable attraction and appeal.

Jed Distler, GRAMOPHONE (Awards Issue - October 2023)


Here’s a real treat: piano trios by four outstanding Spanish composers—Enrique Fernández Arbós, Joaquín Turina, Gaspar Cassadó, and Mariano Perelló. … Expertly recorded at Skywalker Sound by the family team of Sean Martin and Keith O. Johnson, the hi-rez recording stands out for its excellent dynamics, natural colors, and big, realistically spaced images that fill a natural-sounding acoustic. It also impresses with its many pages of informative liner notes. … The Hermitage Piano Trio sounds right at home with the color and verve of this music.

Jason Victor Serinus, STEREOPHILE (November 2023)


It would be difficult to imagine better performances of these works than those given by the Hermitage Piano Trio. The ensemble revels in the variety and richness of the works’ instrumental writing. The Trio’s fetching and immaculately executed gradations of tempo, dynamics, and colors are irresistibly seductive. And the intensity with which the artists approach this repertoire is breathtaking. Spanish Impressions offers that rare experience in which the artists convince you that their scintillating, immaculately executed renditions are improvised on the spot. The Hermitage Trio’s brilliant performances are captured in glorious, lifelike sound, a trademark of Reference Recordings’ admirable work.

Ken Meltzer, FANFARE (January / February 2024)