Once upAhn a time in Korea were born a pair of twins, Maria and Lucia Ahn, followed two years later by their sister Angella. All three played the piano but when Lucia got really serious about the keyboard, Angella moved to the violin and Maria to the cello. "A dominant musical gene has obviously left its imprint on the sisters Ahn." LA Times. The three Seoul sisters became the Ahn Trio, making their first public ensemble appearance on Korean TV in 1979. They enrolled at The Juilliard School in 1981 "To hear them play Piazzolla, you'd think these sisters had grown up on the streets of Buenos Aires. Playing such as this would make stars of the Ahns if they were three ugly men." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and were brought to the attention of American audiences in a 1987 Time Magazine story about "Asian American Whiz Kids." Soon followed features in Vogue, GQ, The New York Times, The Oxygen Channel, PBS...you get the picture.

Their first recording brought raves"...This is one of Ravel's best, and never better played." Audio Magazine and the next, an EMI classics recording of Dvorak, Suk and Shostakovich Trios won Germany's prestigious ECHO Award. "This enormously stimulating performance will be one to return to again and again," BBC Music Magazine. The trio's "Ahn-Plugged" album launched their exploration of contemporary music, and was a springboard for their latest CD on EMI, "Groovebox".

The Ahn Trio breathes new life into the standard piano trio literature, "One was rewarded with a performance of Beethoven's first piano trio so clean and fresh, that one can imagine the impact this piece may have had at its first performance." Stuttgarter Nachrichten offers as an alternative the more spontaneous and eclectic program, "Ahn-Plugged," and gives thrilling first-life to pieces by contemporary composers such as Bunch, Ewazen, Jarre, Musto, Nyman and Schoenfield.

The beauty, passion and vitality of the Ahn's playing "Their technique was impressive, and they balanced unanimity and individuality in a spirit that is at the heart of chamber music. Washington Post has tem in demand, and the trio has played in musical hot spots like the 92nd St. "Y", on the groovy west coast, in all corners of the country and much of the world, wherever music lovers gather--or, as is so often the case with the Ahns, where music lovers are created, both in the concert hall and in their numerous master classes and workshops. "Chamber music of the very first rank." Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung