The Bay Area Music Consortium (BAMC) is a visionary partnership between three distinct organizations dedicated to presenting the finest in chamber music experiences: Berkeley Chamber Performances, Gold Coast Chamber Players (Lafayette), and Mill Valley Chamber Music Society. BAMC’s fourth season features three performances by the esteemed Horszowski Trio. All ticket holders will be required to provide identification and proof of COVID-19 vaccination and to remain masked at all times at each of the concert venues.
Giving performances that are “lithe, persuasive” (The New York Times), “eloquent and enthralling” (The Boston Globe), and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (The New Yorker), the Horszowski Trio has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world.
Culture, Crisis, and Creativity will be performed three times throughout the Bay Area: on Friday, February 25, 2022 at 7:30pm in Lafayette, on Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 5pm in Mill Valley and Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 7:30pm in Berkeley. The Lafayette performance will be recorded and ticket holders to any of these three performances will have the option to watch the Lafayette performance online beginning March 3, 2022.
This colorful program features piano trios by Bedřich Smetana, Rebecca Clarke, and Arno Babadjanian, which grapple with political struggles and personal challenges. As the most distinguished British female composer of the inter-war generation, Rebecca Clarke composed her trio on the heels of the 1918 influenza pandemic while battling prevailing sexist attitudes and personal depression. Clarke’s Piano Trio (1921) is an extraordinary work of striking originality and craft reflecting some of the most modern influences of the time including Ravel, Bloch and Debussy with its impressionist atmosphere. Bedřich Smetana, whose work is imbued with inflections of Czech folk music, wrote his emotional op.15 trio as a response to the death of his daughter. Smetana's lone piano trio is a milestone of romanticism. Much of Arno Babadjanian’s music is rooted in Armenian folk music and folklore. Passionate and full of memorable melodies, Babadjanian’s Piano Trio in F-sharp minor is considered one of his most important works.
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CONTACT Pamela Freund-Striplen (925) 283-3728; https://tinyurl.com/3cxk32j6