A symphony orchestra and a large choir are confronted with a big band, and all three are put into perspective by historic footage of their predecessors in concert and rehearsal from the first decades of public tv. A game of identity, style and time, remixing the newly digitalised television archives and celebrating the three traditional musical pillars of the major European, public tv stations.

All used material was found in the South West German Radio archives with the exception of the recording of a wax cylinder from 1888 with the world's first recording of a large orchestra and a choir (by Edison et al.).

TRIO was co-commissioned by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Donaueschinger Musiktage (SWR), premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival on the 18th of October 2019.