UW Guest Artist Concert: Eroica Trio

Eroica Trio and UW School of Music

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)

Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States

$20 ($15 UWAA/UW employee, $10 student/ages 65 & over)

Johann Sebastian Bach — "V. Chaconne" from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Anne Dudley)
Remo Giazotto — Adagio in G minor for strings and organ (att. to Tomaso Albinoni) (arr. Eroica Trio)
Fritz Kreisler — Marche miniature viennoise ("Miniature Viennese March")
Kenji Bunch / George Gershwin — Porgy and Bess Fantasy for Piano Trio
Johannes Brahms — Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87

The renowned Eroica Trio—Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello—performs works by J.S. Bach, Tomaso Albinoni, Fritz Kreisler, George Gershwin, and Johannes Brahms in this concert concluding the group's three-day residency at the School of Music.

About Eroica Trio

https://www.eroicatrio.com/

About UW School of Music

http://music.washington.edu/

About Erika Nickrenz, piano

Pianist Erika Nickrenz is a native of New York City, where she made her concerto debut in Town Hall at age eleven. Ms. Nickrenz began her studies with German Diez, and received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Juilliard School as a pupil of Abbey Simon; she is an active solo and chamber musician with more than eighty concerts this season. She appeared as soloist with the Jupiter Symphony in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and has toured with Music from Marlboro; as a member of Chamber Soloists USA she toured Tasmania and Australia, resulting in performances at the Sydney Opera House. Erika Nickrenz has appeared in many festivals, including Marlboro, the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, La Musica and Tanglewood, where she received the prestigious Rockefeller Award.

She has collaborated with many renowned artists including Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Carter Brey, Stanley Drucker, Paula Robison, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and was the founding member of the Walden Horn Trio. Ms. Nickrenz performed solo excerpts from Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in the Backstage at Lincoln Center television series, narrated by Hugh Downs; the program was aired on PBS' opening night of "Live from Lincoln Center." In May 2003, she participated in the opening of the New York Stock Exchange after performing there as part of the Steinway 150th anniversary celebration. She has recorded several CD's on the MusicMaster and ASV London labels and now records exclusively for EMI Classics.