Philadelphia Chamber Music Society: Marina Piccinini, flute; Peter Wiley, cello; Anna Polonsky, piano

• Marina Piccinini, flute
• Peter Wiley, cello
• Anna Polonsky, piano

Franz Joseph Haydn — Flute Trio in F major, Hob. XV:17
Sergei Prokofiev — Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 94
Ludwig van Beethoven — 12 Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen", Op. 66
Felix Mendelssohn — Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 (arr. for flute, cello, & piano)

A flutist of "intent, glittering musicianship" (The Sunday Times), Marina Piccinini returns to PCMS with fellow Society favorites Peter Wiley and Anna Polonsky. Their inviting program culminates in Mendelssohn's Trio in D minor, Op. 49, a work which Robert Schumann described as "the master trio of the age."

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About Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/

About Marina Piccinini, flute

http://www.marinapiccinini.com/

About Peter Wiley, cello

https://www.curtis.edu/academics/faculty/peter-wiley/

About Anna Polonsky, piano

Anna Polonsky, in high demand as a soloist and chamber musician, has appeared with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, Daedalus, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax, Arnold Steinhardt, as well as clarinetist David Shifrin and cellist Peter Wiley with whom she also performs as a trio. Her chamber festival appearances include Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Music@Menlo, Cartagena, Bard, and Caramoor, as well as at Bargemusic in New York City, and her concert appearances have occurred in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls. Ms. Polonsky has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Anna has been a member of the Chamber Music Society Two as a frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, taken part in the European Broadcasting Union’s 2006 project to record and broadcast all of Mozart’s keyboard sonatas, and in the spring of 2007, inaugurated the Emerson Quartet’s Perspectives Series with a solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. She is a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.

Ms. Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow, Russia, emigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of the renowned pianist Peter Serkin and continued her studies with Jerome Lowenthal, earning her Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School. In addition to performing, Ms. Polonsky is a piano faculty member at Vassar College and the Marlboro and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals.

http://www.annapolonsky.com/