31 August & 5 September 2025 – Switzerland
LiveART performance of Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2, in E minor, Op. 67.
Interview with Maryleen Schiltkamp on Shostakovich Piano Trio no.2, filmed right after the LiveART performance in collaboration with the Swiss Piano Trio on 5 September 2025 at Kunsthalle Appenzell, Switzerland. Video filmed by Eliyah Reichen @eliyahreichen
31 August, the LiveART performance by Maryleen Schiltkamp in collaboration with the Swiss Piano Trio on Shostakovich Piano Trio no.2. took place, as part of the Kammermusik Bodensee festival in Lilienberg concerthall. This year, 2025, marks the worldwide 50th commemoration of Shostakovich death in 1975, which made the performance in Switzerland even more significant.
Stage view at Lilienberg concerthall after the LiveART performance of Shostakovich Piano Trio no.2 at 31 August 2025
The set of two LiveART paintings found a great destination in a private home near Zürich. The esthetically designed villa, an architectural artwork in itself, keeps the energy of Shostakovich’s music through these paintings – now and for future eyes.
Reflection on the festival by Kammermusik Bodensee:
“The artist Maryleen Schiltkamp’s rendering of Shostakovich’s harrowing Second Piano Trio into two large-format paintings at the closing concert left a lasting and profound impression. Synchronized with the emotional interpretation of the Swiss Piano Trio, haunting images emerged on the canvases, amplifying and deepening the musical experience. The festival motto “Klangbilder” thus reached its fascinating climax, with musicians and the artist allowing the audience to participate directly in the creative process.”
Quote Paul Marleyn:
“Maryleen Schiltkamp’s live art performances are imbued with energy, passion and integrity. Her intense and sincere response to the great music which she expresses on the canvas, music with which she knows intimately, is expressed through her gestures and colours, and sometimes dramatic art strokes, so that we can experience the music’s and life’s full power and spirit in the moment. Her art performances represent a ground-breaking and valuable new way to express and experience live art and live music.”
— Paul Marleyn, internationally acclaimed Canadian cellist, Professor of Music, and Artistic Director of festivals (Lilienberg, 2025)
The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op.67, is a piece for violin, cello and piano by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, written between late 1943 and August1944.
While in general the Piano Trio no.2 is commemorating the victims of the Second World War, the Holocaust and universal feelings of loss, the music also is witness to a personal grief of the composer in its dedication to his close friend Ivan Sollertinsky, whose death in February 1944 affected Shostakovich profoundly. The Piano Trio no.2 consists of 4 movements which in the LiveART paintings are divided over two canvasses by diagonals. The left canvas has movements I & II; the right canvas movements III & IV.
The Swiss Piano Trio: Martin Lucas Staub – piano; Angela Golubeva – violin; Franz Ortner – violoncello.
5 September 2025 the second performance of Maryleen’s LiveART collaboration with the Swiss Piano Trio took place at an art museum, Kunsthalle Appenzell. As LiveART performances mostly take place in musical surroundings as a concerthal or theater, it was very inspiring to stage this time at an art museum. The LiveART performance was filmed during the concert.
As much as LIveART is in the moment and has an element of improvisation, the artist studies the music score beforehand meticulously, in order to create an overall design for the paintings on the canvasses. As a preparation to live painting in synchronicity with the music, Maryleen creates a parallel graphic score, mapping and timing the musical motifs and significant moments… the Timelines. 
LiveART details of Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2
Les Sacres: a ritual of music, color and primal force…
