The Aeolian Trio, consisting of Pavel Timofeyevsky (piano), Matthew Wilsher (clarinet), and Urška Horvat (cello), is a London-based piano trio. Their journey began when they crossed paths performing a chamber arrangement of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca. United by their love for chamber music, they founded the trio, eager to explore the rich repertoire written for this combination of instruments, as well as continue to explore new works and reductions. The trio comprises highly acclaimed and experienced soloists, chamber, and orchestral musicians, each bringing their unique talent and expertise to the ensemble.

Born in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Urška Horvat is a versatile award-winning solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. Her passion for music and more specifically chamber music has brought her to visit many countries around the world and perform in many distinguished venues such as Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Cadogan Hall, King's Place, St. John's Smith Square, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Flagey in Brussels, The Slovenian Philharmonic Hall in Ljubljana, among others.

Urška has been invited as a soloist and a chamber musician to participate in various festivals, such as prestigious Trondheim Chamber Music Festival (Norway), Davos Festival (Switzerland), Les Sons Intensifs (Lessines, Belgium), Seeklang Hergiswil (Switzerland), "I Giardini della Filarmonica" in Rome, Virenze Concerts Series (Netherlands), Festival Lent (Maribor, Slovenia), Autumn International Fest Hyderabad in India.

Urška won several national and international prizes in the UK, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia and as a soloist performed with several orchestras. One of the most noticeable performances took place in Cadogan Hall (London) where she debuted with Dvořák's Cello Concerto, after winning Trinity Laban Soloists' Competition 2016. One of her performances has recently been also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Urška is playing on the ex-Pergamenschikow Montagnana copy made by Robin Aitchison in 2019.

Urška Horvat

Matthew Wilsher is a chamber, orchestral and solo clarinettist, and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was a Chamber Music Fellow with his wind quintet, Moriarty Winds, and an Open Academy (outreach and community music work) Fellow.

As well as the Academy, Matthew studied at the Jacques Thibault Conservatoire in Bordeaux and Bristol University on the Thomas Beecham Scholarship and the JH Britten award, but now lives in London where he has worked with esteemed conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Sir Trevor Pinnock and Semyon Bychkov, performed with orchestras such as the London Sinfonietta and the Philharmonia, and performed in venues such as Wigmore hall and the Royal Festival Hall.

Matthew is passionate about opera - he currently principal clarinet of Dorset Opera Festival, Opera de Baugé and Waterperry Opera, and works regularly with English Touring Opera, Birmingham Opera, and Tète à tète Opera, exploring new and established opera repertoire across the country. An advocate of music education and participation, Matthew is a founding member of the charity Hold the Drama, an Arts Council funded organisation that performs non-verbal musical shows in schools across the country, and works regularly on community music-making projects with English National Opera, The Mozartists and the London Sinfonietta.

Matthew Wilsher

Born in Russia and educated in England, Pavel graduated with distinction as Master of Arts from the Royal Academy of Music, London. Solo and chamber music recitals, as well as concerto performances with orchestras has brought him to nearly all major concert venues in UK; these include the prestigious Wigmore Hall, as well as the Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls in London. Concert tours, along with television and radio appearances in other parts of the world include the USA (Merkin Hall in New York and Fred Kavli Theatre in LA), China (Shanghai Oriental Centre for Arts, Guangzhou Opera House), Italy, Russia, France, Spain, Sweden, Greece, South Africa, Kenya and India. Pavel is the recipient of several prestigious British music awards, scholarships and national competition prizes: these include the Musicians Benevolent Fund Award, the 2007 Myra Hess Award, and the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship for piano, as well as winning the BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year award for composition.

Having made London his home and professional stomping ground, Pavel is highly sought after as a solo performer and a chamber music partner, collaborating with some of the world's finest musicians. A keen and eloquent speaker, Pavel enjoys giving lecture-recitals and has his own regular lecture-concert series for the Kensington Music Society.

A fervent advocate of contemporary music, Pavel has given many premieres of fellow composers works and featured on the album ISLAS by British composer Ian Stewart for the MUSIC CHAMBER label, as well as participated in the recording of music of Hungarian composer Hans Gal, as part of Ensemble Burletta, for Toccata Classics label.

Pavel Timofeyevsky