The Ono Trio are three young cellists from Caparica in Portugal, ChangChun in northern China and Schmalkalden in Thuringia.
They met at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Soloist and chamber music impulses have so far been provided by S. Müller- Hornbach, K. Dill, A.Puliaev, J. Schwab, Wen-Sinn Yang, A. Winter, G. Schwabe, S. Krams and many more.
The response to the first joint concert, which Ana Catarina Pimentel Rodrigues, Julia Pesavento and Mufei Feng at the finissage of the Yoko Ono artwork Add Color (Refugee Boat) ”in Dortmund was so overwhelming that it led to further projects among others with “Les Lumieres” from Cologne. There repertoire includes popular styles such as baroque, classical, romantic and Contemporary music as well as cross-over and Latin American and Asian music.
They work with young composers from Portugal, Germany and China. It is particularly important to them to give modern or contemporary music a forum.