Trio Havisham

Trio Havisham is an award-winning ensemble comprising pianist Zany Denyer, violinist Magdalena Riedl, and cellist Seth Collin. Renowned for their thoughtful music-making, their performances have been described as having “real flair, while never losing that sense of balance” (CAVATINA, 2022).

Having won the Musicians' Company Award at Wigmore Hall (2023), they are now part of the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ five-year Young Artist Program. They have also been selected by the Kirckman Concert Society as Kirckman Artists for the 2024/25 season, after previously being part of the Tunnell Trust’s roster of artists in 2023/24. The trio is also grateful for the support of ChamberStudio UK, who invited them to participate in three residences at the University of Cambridge as part of the Hans Keller Forum (2023/24). They were recently invited to the 2025 IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses, where they studied in the class of Anthony Marwood. In the Summer of 2025, they will be an Ensemble en Résidence at La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival.

The trio has also achieved success in international competitions, winning 2nd prize at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon (2023). Previously, they were awarded 1st prize at the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition at Wigmore Hall and reached the finals of the Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Competition (2022). More recently, they reached the semi-finals of the 12th International Chamber Music Competition: Franz Schubert and Modern Music (2025) in Graz, Austria, and are now finalists at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin China (2025).

The trio is grateful to have received numerous opportunities for masterclasses and coachings with esteemed musicians over the past few years, including Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), So-Ock Kim, Takács Quartet, Robert Levin, David Waterman (Endellion Quartet), Wu Qian (Sitkovetsky Trio), Carole Presland, Matthew Jones, Alasdair Beatson, Richard Ireland, John Myerscough (Doric Quartet), Ralf Gothoni, Trio Karénine, the Gould Piano Trio, Jeremy Young, Donald Grant (Elias String Quartet), Leonard Elschenbroich, Hannah Roberts, Yair Kless, Michael Dussek and James Bailieu. A particular passion of Trio Havisham lies in exploring the rarely performed trios of Bohuslav Martinu. In 2023, they recorded his 1st Piano Trio, ‘Cinq pièces brèves', for the Abbey Road Institute.

Zany and Seth are currently pursuing advanced studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Artist Diploma and Postgraduate students, respectively, whilst Magdalena is studying for a Professional Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music. During their previous studies together at the Royal Northern College of Music, where the ensemble originally formed, they were awarded the Christopher Rowland Ensemble of the Year Prize. Magdalena plays a violin by Enrico Ceruti, generously loaned to her through Beares’ International Violin Society.