Kaufman Music Center – Music Speaks: Undiluted Days – Merz Trio
$30 ($15 student tickets by phone/in person)
Franz Joseph Haydn — Piano Trio No. 45 in E-flat major, Hob. XV:29 (I. Poco allegretto)
Jeffrey Mumford — undiluted days
Alma Mahler — Laue Sommernacht (Mild summer night) (arr. Merz Trio)
Louis Guglielmi — La Vie en Rose (arr. Merz Trio)
Carlo Gesualdo — Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (arr. Merz Trio)
Traditional — Samradh, Samradh (Irish; arr. Merz Trio)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50
Richard Strauss — Morgen!, Op. 27, No. 4 (arr. Merz Trio)
"Riveting" … "stunning virtuosity and ensemble work" … "fresh and surprising interpretations" — Susan Pena, Reading Eagle
Merz Trio are First Prize winners at the 2021 Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition. Composed of players hailed as "impressive" (The New York Times), "impeccable" (Fanfare Magazine), and praised for "a sense of joyful virtuosity" (South Florida Classical Review), Merz Trio has quickly emerged as a unique and award-winning ensemble, garnering the First Prize at the 2019 Fischoff Competition and the First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2018 Chesapeake Competition.
Jeffrey Mumford’s undiluted days is the tempestuous heart of this program, set against Tchaikovsky’s great elegy on the second half. Raw, passionate, and elegiac by turns, Mumford’s trio gathers around it a small community of works ranging from Carlo Gesualdo to Alma Mahler, Édith Piaf to Irish traditional, all sharing a quality of unapologetic, undiluted experience. In the shadow of these twin elegies, we are charmed by mild summers and the joys of friendship, we experience the pains of heartbreak and la vie en rose, and we begin gradually to introduce the universe of emotion we will encounter fully in Tchaikovksy’s “in memory of a great artist.”
Directed by Jonathan Levin. Sponsored by Augusta Gross and Leslie B. Samuels.
$15 students tickets are available by phone or in person. Call the box office at (212) 501-3330.
COVID-19 Protocols: All guests must wear a mask properly at all times while in the building. Audience members will need to be fully vaccinated with an FDA or WHO approved vaccine and must show proof of vaccination along with a government-issued photo ID. Audience members under the age of 12 (under the age of 5 beginning March 1, 2022) or patrons who are not able to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief must show proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time.
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About Merz Trio
Brigid Coleridge, violin |
Julia Yang, cello |
Lee Dionne, piano