Le Merle Trio was founded in September 2020 and consists of Diamanto Katerina (mezzo soprano), Jieun Kim (viola) and Katherine Teng (piano). All the members are currently studying at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the trio has been coached by Noa Frenkel.

In February, Merle Trio had the first regular concert in Barth Chapel which was streamed around the world.

The Merle Trio has a natural love for the standard trio repertoir, from the Romantic period to works from the 20th century.

Magdalena Michalko :

Magdalena Michalko was born in 1996 in Vienna (Austria) and graduated 2015 from a musical High school where she already had music Theory- and singing lessons. Her vocal education began when she was 9 years old. She took place in multiple Masterclasses of Mariette Witteveen, Univ.-Prof. Claudia Visca, KS Wolfgang Bankl, Prof. Kurt Widmer and also won the “Prima la Musica” Competition several times in Austria. Since September 2019 she is studying at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague With Prof. Catrin Wyn-Davies and Prof. Phyllis Ferweda. She sang in different concerts from the AMGV Men’s choir as a Soloist in the Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna Concert Hall), in Tübingen (Germany), Sofia (Bulgaria) and in Sandefjord (Norway).

Jorn Quirijnen :

Jorn Quirijnen (1998) started his music education under Johannes Luijken in Zutphen. At the age of 12 he got accepted in a special young talent class under Frank Peters at the Artez conservatory of Arnhem. At this institute Jorn also took lessons in chamber music, theory and composition. At the age of 19 Jorn got accepted for the bachelor classical piano at the HKU conservatory of Utrecht, to study with Martyn van den Hoek. One year later he decided to change his direction of education, and changed conservatory to be able to study with Slava Poprugin at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. At The Hague Jorn is developing himself mainly as a chamber music player. He is very intensively playing together with multiple different ensembles. Through his education Jorn has been taken place in multiple chamber music masterclasses with great musicians such as: Itamar Golan, Ivry Gitlis, Michael Kugel, Alexander Zemtsov, Frank Peters and Utrecht String Quartet.