The 2003 inaugural winners of Chamber Music Detroit’s Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award return in a concert celebrating the Claremont Trio’s 25th anniversary season.
A founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Harlem Quartet, violinist Melissa White is recognized for her “warmly expressive and lyrical” playing (Chicago Classical Review). Her recital with Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara highlights works by Brahms and Gershwin, alongside American women composersAmy Beach and Reena Esmail. The program concludes with William Grant Still’s Suite, a stunning work by the “Dean of Black American Composers”, inspired by the visual art of the Harlem Renaissance. Mahidhara explains, “We are performing works by composers who represent a diversity of backgrounds, much like the two of us.”
Experience the exceptional communicative power and intoxicating stage dynamic of this unique and widely acclaimed ensemble, self-described as the world’s only “Piano Windtet.” Praised by critics as “a breath of fresh air,” ensemble 4.1 is devoted to presenting original masterpieces in a new light, while also discovering and performing rarely played compositions from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries.
