Eroica Trio - Hamilton

Chamber Music New Zealand is delighted to present the return of New York’s Eroica Trio. Their debut New Zealand tour in 2003 packed out halls around the country and had critics ecstatic in their praise.

The programme will include:
Lalo - Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Opus 7
Villa Lobos arr. Raimundo Penaforte - Aria
Paul Schoenfield - Café Music
Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Opus 49

The Eroica Trio are: Erika Nickrenz - piano; Susie Park - violin; and Sara Sant’ambrogio - cello.

All three women are top-ranked award winning soloists, and last year the trio celebrated their 20th anniversary. Sara and Erika have been playing together since they were twelve years old, and Australian violinist Susie Park joined in 2006 replacing Adele Pena.

In this programme, the classical intensity of the Mendelssohn is mirrored by Édouard Lalo's warmly expressive Trio in C minor and contrasted with the flair of Paul Schoenfield, whose Café Music is by turns sassy, bluesy and totally American. Composer Raimundo Penaforte arranged Villa Lobos’ stunning Aria especially for the Eroica Trio.

The trio will release a disc of all-American music, their eighth recording for EMI, in late 2008.

Book at Ticket Direct, phone: 07 858 5100 or 0800 383 5200.