Program Artist Biography Peggy Rockefeller Concerts The Rockefeller University	Wednesday, 23 September 1998 Eroica Trio Erika Nickrenz, Piano Adela Peña, Violin Sara Sant'Ambrogio, Cello	Photo credit: Gigi de Manio
	The Eroica Trio is one of the most talked-about groups in today's chamber music world. They make a striking impression at every concert. Winners of the 1991 Naumburg Competition, they play "with refinement, passion, spontaneity, imagination, and the fullest grasp of stylistic nuances" (The Chicago Sun Times).
	Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Trio in C major, K. 548 Allegro Andante cantabile Allegro Paul Schoenfield (b.1947) Café Music for Trio (1986) Allegro con fuoco Andante moderato Presto Intermission Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Trio in B major, Op. 8 Allegro con brio Scherzo: Allegro molto Adagio Allegro
	Eroica Trio The Eroica Trio first came to international attention in 1991, when they took the first prize in the Walter F. Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. This high profile award-one of the most important for chamber music in America-brought with it a critically-acclaimed Lincoln Center debut and a tour of the U.S. Since then, the Trio has made hundreds of appearances across the country and abroad, including performances at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Aspen Music Festival, and a prestigious tour of the top concert halls in Japan. Named in honor of Beethoven's passionate Third Symphony, the Eroica Trio stands out in the highly competitive classical world not only for their technical virtuosity, but also for a rare vibrancy, a contagious joy of music, and a bold natural glamour that shines on stage The women who make up the Eroica Trio are all top-ranked, award-winning soloists who have performed on many of the world's greatest stages. Sara Sant'Ambrogio's international successes include a 1986 bronze medal at the prestigious international Tchaikovsky Cello Competition in Moscow, resulting in concert tours across the U. S., Europe, the Middle East, and Canada, and her performance in the 1991 Grammy Award-winning recording of Leonard Bernstein's "Arias and Barcaroles." Adela Peña garnered first prizes in both the Washington International and Hudson Valley competitions, and has toured extensively as a soloist in the United States, Europe, and South America. She has soloed with the English Chamber Orchestra, appeared in a recital at Carnegie Hall, and on live European television, broadcast from Paris. Erika Nickrenz, who made her concerto debut in New York's Town Hall at the age of eleven, was a featured soloist on the PBS series "Live from Lincoln Center," and has enjoyed a solo career that has taken her across America and Canada, and to Italy, Switzerland, and Australia; she has performed in the Marlboro, Spoleto, and Tanglewood Festivals. In addition to a touring schedule that brings them to a new city every few days, The Eroica Trio devotes significant time to bringing classical music to new and broader audiences. "To attract new generations to classical music, we have to realize that we don't exist in a vacuum. We are competing with everything from MTV to Rent." The Trio's carefully crafted balance of repertoire and presentation has allowed the group to make fans of sophisticated audiences with decades of classical concert-going experiences, younger admirers of the Trio's more contemporary works, and elementary students discovering the joys of live chamber music for the first time. Exclusive Management: Columbia Artists Management Inc.
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