HUB Canada &mdash
March 4, 2004.  
“Classical music has the unfortunate reputation of being stuffy, pretentious, and stuck in the past — something the members of the Gryphon Trio were determined to dispel from the time they formed in 1993… To that end, the trio has commissioned more that 20 works in the past decade. Its latest is an ambitious 90-minute multimedia piece called Constantinople from Toronto-based composer Christos Hatzis. The musical component of Constantinople debuted in October 2000, but the full piece, with all of the multimedia elements, premieres in July at the Banff Centre.
“The trio’s latest album, Canadian Premiers [recorded at TBC], has been nominated for a 2004 Juno (presented April 3 and 4 in Edmonton) and a Canadian Independent Record Award” [the Gryphon Trio won the award].