Trio Delyria Receives Prizes from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts

The Israeli-German ensemble will be awarded €18,000 in cash as part of two prizes awarded by the school

The German-based Trio Delyria has recently received two awards from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK), with the prizes carrying a total value of €18,000.

The ensemble comprises violinist David Strongin, pianist Elisha Kravitz, and cellist Uriah Tutter, all of whom hail from Israel.

The trio’s first award is the HfMDK's ensemble scholarship for chamber music, with each player receiving €5,000 and support towards establishing their careers.

The second prize is the Ina and Gustav Lenzewski Foundation Prize for Chamber Music, which is valued at €2,000. This prize celebrates a prominent chamber music pedagogue, who was working at the university in the middle of the twentieth century.

Trio Delyria formed at the HfMDK, though Kravitz and Tutter had been playing together for years in various music education programs in Israel. Studying with Angelika Merkle on the university's chamber music master's program, the trio focuses particularly on works reflecting European-Jewish cultural heritage.

A finalist at the Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy competition in Berlin, the trio has won two prizes at the competition of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft in Frankfurt, and is a recipient of the Bad Homburger Förderpreis für Kammermusik.