Established in 2024 at the Kunstuniversität Graz in the chamber music class of pianist Chia Chou, and based in Austria, the Meran Piano Trio brings together three musicians united by a shared passion for chamber music and collaborative performance. The ensemble is generously supported by the Rotary Club Graz for the 2025–2026 season and serves as Ensemble-in-Residence at Contra Studio in Vienna. Alongside our work as a trio, all three members maintain active international performing careers, appearing regularly in concerts, festivals, and artistic projects throughout Europe.

Marley Erickson, 2003, is a prize winner of USA National Strings Competition, the International Louis Spohr Competition, International Ilona Fehér Competition, among many others.

Marley has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Seattle Symphony, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Liszt Chamber Orchestra and has given solo performances Walt Disney Concert Hall, Benaroya Hall, Paul Hall, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Müpa Budapest, the Liszt Academy’s Grand Hall, Musikverein Graz and Salon Cristophori Berlin.

She is a regular guest at festivals such as Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Arsonore Festival, Festival Kortrijk, and Arte Amanti Festival.

Marley has toured as soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and the US and her performances have been broadcast by ÖRF, NW Focus Live, and Medici TV.

She has worked under the baton of Péter Eötvös, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Adám Medveczky and performed with artists such as Michał Francuz, Markus Schirmer, Rohan De Silva, Barnabás Kelemen, Julian Arp, and Gilles Apap.

Marley is represented in Europe by Felix Artist Management, and currently studies with Professor Boris Kuschnir.

Gabriela Peres is a Portuguese cellist currently studying with Professor Jacob Shaw at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), on a full scholarship awarded by the ABRSM.

Shehas been a prizewinner at numerous national and international competitions, including the Vasco Barbosa National String Competition, the Paços Premium International Music Competition, and the Convimus International Chamber Music Competition.

Gabriela performs regularly across Europe in solo recitals and as a chamber musician. She has appeared at major festivals such as the Orlando Chamber Music Festival, Casa del Quartetto Residency, Milano Musica, Diotima Quartet Academy, Kammermusik Festival Stockholm, and Steirisches Kammermusik Festival.

A keen orchestral player, she has performed with the Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquestra XXI, and recently won the Manchester Collective RNCM Professional Experience Scheme audition, through which she will join the Manchester Collective Studio 2025/2026. She played at the Brit Awards in 2026 and recently played in Wigmore Hall, which gave her 2nd prize and Audience Prize of Cavatina Chamber Music Competition.

After graduating from her arts high school with a merit award and an exceptional merit scholarship from the Oliveira do Hospital City Council, Gabriela completed her bachelor’s degree in cello performance at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE) in Portugal, followed by an Erasmus exchange with a full scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Further studies took place at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria) with Professor Johannes Krebs, alongside masterclasses with renowned musicians including Frans Helmerson, István Várdai, Pieter Wispelwey, Valentin Erben, and Marc Coppey.

She performs on a 1778 Sebastian Dallinger cello (Vienna), kindly on loan from a private benefactor.

Vladimir Aćimović (b. 2002, Niš, Serbia) graduated from the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade under Prof. Lidija Stanković, where he also completed his master’s studies and is now pursuing a doctorate. He simultaneously studies in the master’s program at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with Prof. Milana Chernyavska, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 2024. Since 2024, he has been a Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade.

He has been a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund, and the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado.

Vladimir has won numerous international awards, including first prize at “Merci, Maestro!”, first prize at the “Ricard Viñes Youth” competition, second prize and special prize for artistic personality at the “Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam” competition, placement at the 64th “Ferruccio Busoni” competition (Italy, 2022), second prize and EMCY award at the “Robert Schumann” competition for young pianists, as well as a placement in the preliminary stage of the 19th International Chopin Competition.

He has performed at festivals across Europe and the United States, including the Aspen Music Festival, VP Bank Classic Festival, the Alpenarte Festival, and the Ljubljana Festival. Vladimir has also appeared in major halls in Serbia and numerous European venues such as the Dortmund Konzerthaus, Mülheim Stadthalle, Vienna State Opera, Angelika Kaufmann Saal, Schumann Hall in Düsseldorf, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts among others.

As a soloist, he made his orchestral debut at the age of ten in the Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment and has collaborated with orchestras such as the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic, Esperanza Ensemble, Niš Symphony Orchestra, Dušan Skovran String Orchestra with conductors such as Sergey Smbatsyan, Christoph Poppen, Svilen Simeonov, Daniel Moles, Anton Orlov etc.

In 2024 and 2025, he recorded two CDs for Naxos, scheduled for release in 2025 and 2026, and appeared on the premiere recording of the complete piano works of Vladan Radovanović.