Castle Trio

With the Castle Trio (Marilyn McDonald, violinist and Kenneth Slowik, cellist) he has played the masterpieces of the trio repertoire, recorded the cycle of Beethoven Trios and has performed with them Beethoven's complete major works for piano and strings. His recording of Brahms' sonatas for piano and cello with Anner Bylsma was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Chamber Music Performance.

He performs regularly on the Smithsonian Institution's superb piano collection and other significant historic instruments in Europe and in America. The modern fortepianos of Thomas and Barbara Wolf and Rod

Fortepiano, Châteaubriant, France

Regier are used frequently by Orkis in concerts and in recordings.

"Participating in period instrument performances has given me an insight into the musical minds of past composers. Playing on these early pianos as well as working with colleagues in this discipline have been an indispensable part of my education and musical pleasure."

Lambert Orkis

"...he plays it [fortepiano] as virtuosically as Horowitz played a Steinway."

Richmond Times-Dispatch

"...it is the blazing artistry of fortepianist Lambert Orkis that remains engraved in my memory after each hearing of this beautifully engineered recording. What a wonderfully committed player he is. I first heard him in a superb recital of Gottschalk performances, rendered impeccably on a beautifully restored Chickering grand, on the same label [Smithsonian Collection of Recordings]. This Ghost Trio explodes--as it should..."

American Record Guide