The Ramey Trio consists of San Francisco Symphony members – violinist Florin Parvulescu and cellist David Goldblatt – alongside pianist Samantha Cho. The San Francisco-based Ramey trio will present an exciting and dynamic program: a mixture of traditional staples of chamber music literature, such as the titanic Schubert B-flat major trio, as well as the exotic trio by the lesser-known composer Germain Tailleferre, the only female member of Les Six, a group of early 20th century French composers whose music represents a strong reaction to the heavy Romanticism of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, and ironically fellow French composer Claude Debussy. The program opens with the beautiful and sparkling piano trio by Haydn – a popular work in the piano trio literature showcasing Haydn’s brilliant writing for the genre. The next piece in the program – Tailleferre‘s Piano Trio – an astonishing work full of rich harmony and vast palette of colors, as well as intense outpouring of emotion, is rarely performed. Tailleferre began writing the piece in 1916-1917, however due to the violence and emotional trauma of World War I, waited to complete the trio until 1978, just a few years before her death! The program ends with one of the great pillars of chamber music, the Schubert Trio in B-flat major. This dynamic program juxtaposes French to German, traditional forms to modern expressionism, all through the medium of the piano trio.