MOUNT VERNON -- The Peabody Trio returns to Cornell College for a Music Mondays concert March 15 at 8 p.m. in King Chapel.
General admission is $8 at the door. This event, the last of four Music Mondays performances during the school year, is part of Cornell's sesquicentennial celebration.
The Peabody Trio features pianist Seth Knopp, violinist Violaine Melançon and cellist Natasha Brofsky. The trio performed at Cornell in November 2001.
Their concert program will feature Mozart's Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502; Alfred Schnittke's Piano Trio (1985; 1992); and Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, Opus 50.
The Washington Post praises the Peabody Trio's ability to bring "the romantic fervor of the early 20th-century greats" to every performance. The group has established itself as one of the foremost piano trios in the world after winning the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1989.
Since its New York debut in 1990 at Alice Tully Hall, the Peabody Trio has performed in many of the most important chamber music series in North America including the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., and the 92nd St. Y and Frick collection, New York. In addition, the group has toured Japan, Israel and Great Britain, and performed at the Tanglewood and Ravinia summer festivals. Trio members also serve as resident faculty members of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore.
