TRIO BARCLAY: RAVEL’S PIANO TRIO

Dennis Kim, Violin
Jonah Kim, Cello
Sean Kennard, Piano

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A Minor
YA-JHU YANG: Piano Trio No. 2 (World Premiere) 

In their second performance of the season, Trio Barclay brings to life Ravel's Piano Trio, an unparalleled masterpiece of classical music. Written in 1914, this work is considered one of the greatest examples of Impressionist period music and showcases Ravel's extraordinary talent for blending different musical styles including Baroque, jazz, and Basque folk music from where the region where the composer lived as a child. This remarkable work is a definitional piece for piano trios. Over the more than 100 years since its premier in 1915, the work has been performed and recorded by each generation's greatest trios. Be sure to join us as Trio Barclay takes its place in that musical pantheon.

Also on the program is a world premiere by Taiwanese composer, Ya-Jhu Yang. Her new piano trio work features folk-like melodies and sustaining, melodic lines in the violin and cello. In her music, warm lyricism suggestive of Romantic and cinematic music is met with an embrace of a wide palette of subtle musical colors, influenced both by the music of her native culture and twentieth-century composers such as impressionist Claude Debussy.

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