Trio Cavatina

“…each player, in his or her way, made a compelling argument - Lee with her probing phrasing, violinist Rhodes in some charismatic moments of triumph, and Jokubaviciute with a big personality communicated through a sound of great refinement and presence.”
Philadelphia Inquirer

Trio Cavatina is deeply rooted in a strong sense of shared musical values and is rapidly emerging as one of today’s outstanding chamber ensembles. They met and formed in 2005 during the renowned Marlboro Music Festival.

The Chamber Music America Directory included Trio Cavatina in Harris Goldsmith’s article: “2008 Young Artists: More Thrills of Discovery”, describing the trio as offering: “potent, intense interpretations”.

Only two years later, Trio Cavatina gave notable debut appearances at Kneisel Hall’s “Emerging Artists” Series in Maine; Union College in Schenectady, New York and at the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival in Maryland. They were selected to perform at the closing concert of the Chamber Music America Conference in New York City. Trio Cavatina’s performances in New York City, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, and Sarasota, were received with enthusiastic and encouraging reviews by the press. Their first international tour in the 2007-2008 season included performances in Lithuania on stages in Vilnius and Kaunas.

Season highlights in 2006-2007 included the debut concerts at the New Schools’ Schneider Concert Series in New York City and at Jordan Hall in Boston. Trio Cavatina appeared in Merkin Hall, New York City, Brattleboro Music Center, and on the concert series of Performers of Westchester.

During the up coming season, Trio Cavatina will be one of the youngest ensembles to perform on the prestigious Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s concert series. They have received an immediate return engagement to Union College in New York for a performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with clarinetist Alex Fiterstein. Additionally, Trio Cavatina just received first place honors in the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition 2009.

In addition to the classical and romantic repertoire, Trio Cavatina is committed to collaborate with living composers and perform 20th century music. The Trio will record, for CD release, piano trios by American composer Leon Kirchner.

Trio Cavatina has recently completed the New England Conservatory’s Professional Piano Trio Training Program.

HaroldMeltzer

Born in Brooklyn in 1966, Harold Meltzer co-directs the ensemble Sequitur and teaches at Vassar College. His current composition projects are Beautiful Ohio, a song cycle commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation for tenor Paul Appleby to premiere with the New York Festival of Song in May 2010; Kreisleriana, a violin and piano duo commissioned through the McKim Fund at the Library of Congress for Miranda Cuckson, violin, and Blair McMillen, piano, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Fritz Kreisler early in 2012; a String Quartet, awarded by his winning the 2008 Barlow International Prize, for the Avalon, Lydian, and Pacifica Quartets; and an Oboe Quartet, commissioned by Winsor Music for oboist Peggy Pearson. Brion, a sextet for the Cygnus Ensemble previously commissioned by the Barlow Endowment at Brigham Young University, was a Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Harold's music has been recognized also with a Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Privacy, a piano concerto commissioned and premiered by Ursula Oppens and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in 2008, will be performed next by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in January 2010, and recorded by them for release together with their commission of a second piano concerto for pianist Sara Laimon. Harold's music has been recorded on the Albany and CRI labels, and next year Naxos will release a disc of his chamber music.