Trio Solisti to take Adelphi stage on Feb. 2

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Marking its 14th year as ensemble-in-residence at Adelphi University, Trio Solisti will perform works by Shubert, Brahms and Beethoven on Saturday, Feb. 2. The program includes Schubert’s Notturno in E-flat major, Op. 148, D. 897, Beethoven’s Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost” and Brahms’ Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87.

Trio Solisti’s reputation as “the most exciting piano trio in America,” according to The New Yorker, is reaffirmed season after season. Noted Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout proclaimed that Trio Solisti is “the group that to my mind has now succeeded the Beaux Arts Trio as the outstanding chamber music ensemble of its kind.” The New Yorker also called Trio Solisti “probably the finest American piano trio currently on the field,” and The Washington Post praised them for a “transcendent performance.”

Founded in 2001, Trio Solisti is comprised of violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Fabio Bidini.  They perform regularly at the country’s major venues and series, including Great Performers at Lincoln Center, People’s Symphony Concerts at Town Hall in New York, Washington Performing Arts Society at Kennedy Center, Seattle’s Meany Hall and La Jolla’s Revelle Series.

Trio Solisti has presented 13 seasons as the founding ensemble of the Telluride MusicFest, an annual summer chamber music festival in Telluride, Colo.

The group’s collaborations with many preeminent composers of our time have produced such works as Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio No. 2 (2017), Adelphi Professor Paul Moravec’s Tempest Fantasy, which won the Pulitzer in 2004, Lowell Liebermann’s Trio No. 3 (2012) and Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts’ Living Frescoes (2012).

Trio Solisti’s Feb. 2 show will begin at 2 p.m. on the Westermann Stage in Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, 1 South Ave. in Garden City.

Tickets are $35, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni. Information is available at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m and the box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances. Ticket sales and additional information are available online.

Trio Solisti will also host a Composition Workshop to play through original works by Adelphi student composers and offer feedback. The Composition Workshop will be on Friday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information about this and other upcoming Adelphi PAC offerings, go to pac.adelphi.edu.

 

 

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