Trio Solisti

Sunday, February 8, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Center
General admission: $20, Students $5

Comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists - violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff - Trio Solisti has earned a national reputation for its passionate, committed, and adventurous performances marked by exquisite individuality of expression and seamless ensemble playing. These qualities have drawn high praise from such journals as The New York Times (“...consistently brilliant....and compelling.”) and The Washington Post (“...zealous abandon in a transcendent performance.”) The Trio’s cutting edge verve and mastery across a wide spectrum of styles has garnered superlatives not often encountered in the piano trio genre. This versatility also extends to new music, most notably to the works of 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec. Other commissioned works for Trio Solisti include a work by one of America's most sought after young composers, Kevin Puts, who writes a work for the trio with guest clarinet to be premiered in the fall of 2012.

Trio Solisti has made critically acclaimed debuts in New York City on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series and at Town Hall’s Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, at The Kennedy Center (for WPAS) in Washington, D.C., the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, and at the internationally renowned Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy.

Trio Solisti's third CD, Pictures at an Exhibition, was released on Endeavour Classics in the fall of 2007. The cd includes Trio Solisti's own arrangement of Mussorgsky's monumental Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel's masterful Piano Trio in A minor. Trio Solisti has appeared on the nationally broadcast radio show “St. Paul Sunday” and has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” in numerous live performances from around the U.S. They have been presented in multi-concert series by New York’s famed Morgan Library and by the St. Louis Museum of Art. 2007-08 marks Trio Solisti’s sixth year in residence at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.