Nearly a decade ago, violinist Stefan Jackiw, cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Conrad Tao decided to form the Junction Trio. Each has appeared separately at the 92nd Street Y Center for Culture & Arts in Manhattan, but on 1 November the supergroup makes its anticipated debut there with a programme combining two of the greatest works of the piano trio literature – the Brahms B major and Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.2 – with the world premiere of John Zorn’s Philosophical Investigations II.
Just ahead of their fall concert, Jackiw and Campbell met by Zoom to talk about their collaboration with John Zorn, the connections between his new piece and the Brahms Trio in B major and what performing in a trio of musical friends means for them.