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 Purchase, NY - The Claremont Trio celebrates its tenth anniversary season with a return concert at The Recital Hall of The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College on Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.
The program includes String Band (Mason Bates), Trio in A Minor (Ravel) and Trio. No. 2 in E Minor, op. 67 (Shostakovich).
First winner of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremont Trio is equally passionate about the standard repertoire and the music of today.
Twin sisters Emily Bruskin (violin) and Julia Bruskin (cello) formed the trio with Donna Kwong (piano) as students at The Juilliard School. They are based in New York City near their namesake: Claremont Avenue.
The Washington Post lauded the trio for playing with “astonishing facility and ensemble precision.” A concert reviewer in the Cincinnati Enquirer added, "Their exuberant performance and gutsy repertoire ... was the kind of fresh approach that keeps chamber music alive."
In recent seasons, the Claremont Trio has toured throughout the United States in major concert venues including Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Stanford Lively Arts, La Jolla Music Society, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
The String Awakenings Series continues with the Colorado String Quartet with pianist Margaret Kampmeier (Feb. 11) and the Harlem String Quartet with cellist Carter Brey (Apr. 29).
Tickets to the concert — first in the new String Awakenings Series — are $42.50 and $32.50.
For more information, and to buy tickets, contact The Performing Arts Center ticket office (914-251-6200) or log onto The Center’s website at http://www.artscenter.org.
The Center's 31st season is made possible, in part, by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.
Purchase College is located in Westchester County, minutes from the Connecticut border. The college, part of the State University of New York system, is a major institution of public higher education encompassing the liberal arts and sciences, professional training in the performing and visual arts, and continuing education. The college campus is home to The Performing Arts Center and The Neuberger Museum of Art, which strive to present models of excellence for both the college and its surrounding community.
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