Triple Helix Piano Trio to Appear at Keene State
KEENE, NH, 10/3/06 - New England’s highly acclaimed piano trio, Triple Helix, will appear at Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond, Thur., Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The trio will also offer, free to the public, a lecture/demonstration at 1:30 p.m. Both the recital and lecture/demonstration will be in Brickyard Pond’s Alumni Recital Hall. Triple Helix’s visit to Keene is sponsored by the Kingsbury Corporation and Foundation.
When Triple Helix formed in 1995, the Boston Globe wrote, “…not every group of three first-class musicians can create a first-class trio. It’s a question of intelligence, instinct, chops, ear, experience, and willingness; these three women, each a very strong and distinctive personality, have them all.” Now the ensemble is recognized as among the best piano trios on the musical landscape today.
Every concert by Triple Helix is clearly something special, creating musical chemistry with dynamic balance and a firm collective sense of rhythm. The evening will find the trio playing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s C Major Piano Trio, K. 548; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 67; and Arlene Zallman’s Triquetra.
Mozart’s Piano Trio was composed in 1788, while he was living in Vienna. Shostakovich’s Piano Trio was written in 1944 and dedicated to his closest friend Ivan Sollertinsky after his death. The Triquetra was composed by Zallman for Triple Helix in 1999.
Triple Helix is comprised of violinist Bayla Keyes who is well-known to audiences as a founding member of the Muir String Quartet. With the Muir she won the Evian and Naumburg Competitions and played more than 1000 concerts on the international touring circuit. She made her first professional experience with the acclaimed Music from Marlboro. Ms. Keyes teaches at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and is founding director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute String Quartet Workshop.
The pianist is Lois Shapiro who has appeared as soloist and collaborative artist throughout the U.S. and abroad. An articulate speaker with an interest in cultivating an enlightened audience, Shapiro gives numerous master classes and lecture recitals on topics such as the music of Schumann in cultural perspective and the late piano sonatas of Beethoven. A winner of New York’s Concert Artists Guild Award, she is heard during the summer months at such festivals as Aston Magna, Monadnock Music, and Vancouver Chamber Music Festival. She teaches piano and chamber music at Longy School of Music, Wellesley College, and Brandeis University.
Cellist Rhonda Rider is the coordinator of Chamber Music and a member of the cello faculty at The Boston Conservatory. For the past 22 years, she was cellist of the Naumburg Award-winning Lydian Quartet, with whom she performed at many international festivals and won awards for adventurous programming (American Society of Composers and Performers and Chamber Music America) and best chamber music recording of 2001 by the Boston Globe. As a soloist, Ms. Rider won New York’s Concert Artists Guild Award and most recently was awarded an Aaron Copland Fund Grant.
Tickets are available through the Redfern’s box office, 603-358-2168 or on the web at www.keene.edu/racbp. Prices are $17 for the general public, $14 for seniors and KSC faculty and staff, $9 for youth ages 17 and younger, and $5 for KSC students with ID.
Tickets for all of the Redfern’s presenting events and for performances by the departments of Music and Theatre and Dance are also available. Patrons can still purchase 20/20 memberships that enable them to receive a 20 percent discount for all Presenting Series performances.
