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MUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACE PRESENTS:

TRIO SOLISTI

Friday, January 11, 2013
7:30 PM
Christ United Methodist Church

Celebrating their 11th anniversary in the 2012-2013 season, Trio Solisti has been hailed "The most exciting piano trio in America" by The New Yorker magazine. Comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists - violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach, and pianist Jon Klibonoff - Trio Solisti has earned a reputation for their "consistently brilliant" playing (The New York Times) and their "unrelenting passion and zealous abandon" (The Washington Post).

The Trio is the founding ensemble of Telluride MusicFest in Telluride, CO, an annual chamber music festival that celebrates its tenth season in 2012. They have made critically acclaimed debuts at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series, the Peoples' Symphony Concerts Festival Series at Town Hall, the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, and at the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy. Trio Solisti performs at many festivals both as a trio and as individual guest artists, including Bravo! in Vail, Colorado, Caramoor and the Skaneateles Festival in New York State, Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival in California, the Amelia Island and Sanibel Island festivals in Florida, the Moab Festival in Utah, and Cape Cod Festival in Massachusetts.

Performing a broad spectrum of styles, the members of Trio Solisti collaborate with many of today's leading composers, including Philip Glass, Paul Moravec, and Kevin Puts. Chamber Music Monterrey Bay in California has commissioned a work for the Trio, which will be premiered in fall 2012 with clarinetist Jon Manasse. The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tucson have commissioned Lowell Liebermann to write a piano trio for Trio Solisti, which they will premiere in 2013.

Trio Solisti has released five recordings to date. Strad magazine praised their Brahms Trios, saying "Trio Solisti plays this glorious music with rare commitment and insight – the free-flowing adrenaline has one on the edge of one's seat as it might at a first rate concert performance." Their CD Tempest Fantasy, a CD of music by Paul Moravec, has also received critical acclaim. Fanfare magazine wrote, "These performances are really almost beyond belief." The Musical America Review declared their recording Café Music, "...sumptuous soaring lines, sultry countermelodies, and articulated dance rhythms with muscular clarity." Gramophone magazine raved about Pictures at an Exhibition, the Trio's third CD, saying "Trio Solisti's arrangement skillfully recasts Mussorgsky's musical gallery" and Fanfare magazine called the performances "astonishing in sparkling clarity...surging with sensuality and dramatic contrasts."

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 United States. For more information, please visit www.triosolisti.com.

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Dining for MGS provided by Table 16 Restaurant!

Save the Date!

Join us before Trio Solisti's performance for dinner at Table 16 Restaurant. Show your concert tickets to your server, and a portion of the profits from your dinner will be donated to MGS.

Reservations are recommended.

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