Trio Tempora

Trio Tempora’s members are Marius Birtea, Emese Badi and Madeleine Douçot.

The Romanian born clarinetist Marius Birtea started playing the clarinet at the age of twelve at the Carmen Sylva High-School. Ever since then he was awarded numerous prizes and distinctions at both national and international competitions, including the 1st prize at the Martian Negrea Competition in Ploiesti, Romania, and also at the George Georgescu International Competition in Tulcea, Romania. His vast repertoire includes a large number of significant works written for clarinet, such as Mozart, Weber, Spohr, Nielsen, Francaix and Copland’s concertos. Marius has been equally active as a chamber musician, with concerts spanning a repertoire which includes the most important works written for his instrument in chamber ensembles. Marius is now a keen performer on Salzburg’s classical music scene, being constantly engaged in solo and chamber music performances, at venues such as the Marble Hall of the Mirabell Palace and the Ahrenberg Palace.

Born in Paris, France, Madeleine Douçot started playing the cello in 2005 with Prof. Raymond Maillard. In 2014 she was invited to the Tchaïkovsky International Cello Competition for young musicians, in Moscow (Russia), and in 2014 & in 2016 she played in the Knushevitsky Cello Competition (Saratov, Russia), where she was awarded 2nd Prize. Since 2016 she studies with Clemens Hagen at the Salzburg Mozarteum University. Madeleine Douçot plays a cello made by french luthier Frank Ravatin.

The Hungarian born pianist Emese Badi began her studies in 2009 at the Salzburg Mozarteum University in the class of Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch. She gained a wide variety of concert experiences by performing in Salzburg, Vienna, and in Palma de Mallorca. She is also a permanent guest artist in the cultural events of Atrium Bad Birnbach in Germany, and at the Schloss Mirabell Concerts in Salzburg, where she performs a great variety of the classical repertoire, together with several chamber music ensembles; the piano concertos and piano quartets of W. A. Mozart, the piano trios of J. Brahms and L. v. Beethoven, and the piano duos of Dvorak. Emese’s passion for the lied-repertoire awakened in 2014; she has recorded the ’Seven Popular Spanish Songs’ by M. de Falla in 2016, in Salzburg, with the Swedish soprano Himani Grundström, and she is currently working together with Russian double-bass Alexander Voronov, who debuted in ’Lohengrine’ by S. Sciarrino at the Easter Festival in Salzburg in 2017.