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Great performances in an intimate setting

MET Orchestra first violinist Yoon Kwon joins forces with her colleagues, principal violist Milan Milisavljević and principal cellist Joel Noyes, for an exciting opening-night program built around two great classics and a neoclassicist’s serenade. String trios demand great virtuosity and cohesion, and inevitably create some of the most vibrant chamber music.

Treetops Chamber Music Society presents its first concert at the Kweskin Theatre Curtain Call, featuring the critically acclaimed American String Quartet and Treetops CMS artistic director Oskar Espina Ruiz, clarinet, in the performance of two monumental masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire.

Acclaimed as one of America's outstanding ensembles, the Cassatt String Quartet returns to Treetops CMS with an eclectic program that includes Tchaikovsky’s beloved Andante cantabile, the second movement of his String Quartet No. 1, which has become famous in its own right, in a way similar to Barber’s Adagio. Godfrey’s new work features the unique two-cello collaboration of the Cassatt Quartet’s cellist, Nicole Johnson, with her father, Marc Johnson, cellist of the renowned Vermeer Quartet for thirty-five years.

Formed by three artist-faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Espina-Browne-Shteinberg Trio brings together virtuosos from the musical traditions of Russia, Ireland and Spain, with New York City as their common denominator. These rich cultural backgrounds serve as catalyst to bring to light the unique genius in the music of late Robert Schumann, with the added context of works as distant as György Kurtág’s Hommage à R. Sch. and the clarinet sonata by Argentinean composer Carlos Guastavino.

The J.C. Arriaga Competition, which Treetops CMS initiated in 2008, has consistently produced some of the most exciting programs of our season. The Arriaga winners are outstanding ensembles at the start of professional careers, bringing with them tremendous energy and refreshing new repertoire. Some of the Arriaga Competition winners have later won at other top competitions, including the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition of New England and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia.

The Horszowski Trio takes inspiration from the musicianship, integrity and humanity of Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993), whose last piano student at the Curtis Institute was the trio’s Rieko Aizawa. Mr. Horszowski passed along the traditions of the artists with whom he had worked, including Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Martinu, Villa-Lobos, and Granados. The Horszowski Trio perpetuates those traditions, enriched by the spark of a unique connection between three old friends: two-time Grammy-nominated violinist Jesse Mills, founding cellist of the prize-winning Daedalus Quartet Raman Ramakrishnan, and pianist Rieko Aizawa, who made her U.S. debuts at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall with violinist and conductor Alexander Schneider.