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| Chamber ensemble back again to ASU |
Stephanie Marshall
Entertainment Beat |
Special to The Appalachian |
The 2002-03 Performing Arts Series
again brings variety to the Appalachian audience with the Eroica
Trio.
Presented by the Office of Cultural Affairs,
the Eroica Trio will be performing in Farthing Auditorium Tuesday,
Nov. 19.
Coming back for a second time, the Eroica Trio
performed at Appalachian three years ago.
In their time consuming schedule, the Eroica
Trio performance will be the only North Carolina appearance this
year.
“The program will be a little bit of a mix,
starting off with ‘Chaconne’ by Bach, which is an arrangement
for trios,” said H. Perry Mixer, director of Cultural Affairs,
Monday.
The Eroica Trio’s performance will feature
J.S. Bach’s “Chaconne” from Violin Partida No.2 in
D minor, BWV 1004; Albinoini’s Adagio in G minor; Daniel Schnyder’s
Piano Trio, and Johannes Brahms’ Trio in B major, Op. 8, according
to the Cultural Affairs’ press release.
The Eroica Trio, based in New York City, consists
of pianist Erika Nickrenz, violinist Adela Pena, and cellist Sara
Sant’Ambrogio.
Eroica, which is Italian for ‘Heroic’,
came from Beethoven’s Third Symphony, according to the Cultural
Affairs’ press release.
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The history of the
Eroica Trio starts with their childhood.
Erika and Adela have been performing together
since they were nine years old. Three years later Sara came into
the picture through Isabelle Sant’Ambrogio, her grandmother,
with whom Sara and Erika studied piano and chamber music, according
to Cultural Affairs’ press release.
“The three members were asserted from musical
families, therefore there was a lot of inner connections between
the families,” said Denise R. Ringler, director of marketing
for Cultural Affairs, Monday.
“What is interesting about the Eroica Trio
is that they are breaking the gender barrier because a lot of the
traditional chamber trios like this one are older men,” Ringler
said.
Each woman that makes up the Eroica Trio has
not only earned the title of being the first all-female chamber
ensemble to reach the top of the field, but also each is an award-winning
soloist, performing world-wide according to the Cultural Affairs’
press release.
The performance will start at 8 p.m., containing
one intermission. It is estimated to last 2 hours.
“The show, compared to many of the performances
brought to Farthing Auditorium by Cultural Affairs, will be a smaller
and more intimate experience,” Ringler said.
Tickets are on sale at the Farthing Auditorium
box office for $16 for adults, $14 for senior citizens and Appalachian’s
faculty and staff, and $8 for students.
“I was thinking of the perception of chamber
music being kind of stuffy and boring, and because of this I would
challenge students to come experience the Eroica Trio because this
is probably the most accessible, not only interesting to look at,
but very, very exciting to hear,” Mixer said. |
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