The 21st piece of “Kusatsu Music Archive” is F.Mendelssohn: Trio for Flute, Violoncello and Piano in D Minor, Op.49,Ⅰ. Molto Allegro agitato (Original: Piano Trio No.1). Karl-Heinz Schütz plays the flute, Tamás Varga plays the cello and Christopher Hinterhuber plays the piano.
The final piece is a chamber music which is performed by three remarkable Viennese musicians at the 40th Kusatsu Music Festival in 2019. Tamás Varga is a renowned solo cellist who has been the principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for more than 20 years. For more than ten years, he has been a representative cellist in the festival like Wolfgang Boettcher. Karl-Heinz Schütz who studied with Aurèle Nicolet is an orthodox and talented musician and he became the principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra after Wolfgang Schulz. Christopher Hinterhuber who is an internationally acclaimed pianist based in Vienna has been visiting Kusatsu every year since 2013 and is also enthusiastic about teaching young musicians as a professor for piano at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. They are all talented musicians around the age of 50 and will continue to provide excellent teaching and performing at Kusatsu Music Festival for many years to come.