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Eroica Trio to play Bernstein, Gershwin at Opera House
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CommentThe internationally acclaimed Eroica Trio will bring a lively program of American classics to the Napa Valley Opera House on Feb. 16.
Pianist Erika Nickrenz, violinist Susie Park and cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio will perform works by Mark O’Connor (born 1961), Paul Schoenfeld (born 1947), Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) and George Gershwin (1898 – 1937).
Pianist Erika Nickrenz, violinist Susie Park and cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio will perform works by Mark O’Connor (born 1961), Paul Schoenfeld (born 1947), Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) and George Gershwin (1898 – 1937).
Bernstein’s “West Side Story Fantasy” and Gershwin’s “Three Preludes” are new arrangements created for the Eroica Trio by Brazilian composer Raimundo Penaforte, to celebrate the group’s 20th anniversary.
O’Connor’s “Piano Trio No. 1 (‘Poets and Prophets’)” in four movements pays instrumental tribute to the late singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, while Schoenfeld’s jazzy “Café Music” is an Eroica staple, first recorded on the trio’s debut CD in 1997.
O’Connor’s “Piano Trio No. 1 (‘Poets and Prophets’)” in four movements pays instrumental tribute to the late singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, while Schoenfeld’s jazzy “Café Music” is an Eroica staple, first recorded on the trio’s debut CD in 1997.
From its origins at New York’s famed Juilliard School, where Nickrenz and Sant’Ambrogio formed the trio with violinist Adela Pena in 1987, the Eroica has attracted audiences’ eyes as well as their ears: All three members are pretty women who perform in designer gowns.
But their glamorous image is backed up by serious musicianship and lifelong training.
But their glamorous image is backed up by serious musicianship and lifelong training.
“Each one of them was essentially a child prodigy,” said Bob Muh, an Opera House trustee who is sponsoring the concert with his wife, Berit.
Pianist Nickrenz, whose parents are violist Scott Nickrenz and Grammy-winning producer Joanna Nickrenz, was just 11 when she made her concerto debut at New York’s Town Hall. A featured soloist on the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center, she holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard.
Park’s solo debut came when she was 5; she went on to earn her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and her Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory.
Sant’Ambrogio studied as a child with her father, John Sant’Ambrogio, principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony, and at the age of 16 was invited to the Curtis Institute of Music on a full scholarship, before continuing on to Juilliard.
All three performers have earned many international awards and prizes at musical competitions; Sant’Ambrogio has won a Grammy award for her recording of Bernstein’s “Arias and Barcaroles.”
The intimate, acoustically sublime Opera House is the ideal hall in which to hear the award-winning trio, which has earned rave reviews from some of the world’s most demanding music critics.
Tickets for the Feb. 16 concert are $35, $30 for seats in the rear of the 500-seat Margrit Biever Mondavi Theatre. The box office, at 1030 Main St.,is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and 60 minutes before show time on performance nights. To purchase tickets online, visit www.nvoh.org or to order by phone, call 226-7372.
Eroica Trio
Feb. 16, 8 p.m.
$30, $35
Napa Valley Opera House
Box Office: 226-7372
www.nvoh.org
Pianist Nickrenz, whose parents are violist Scott Nickrenz and Grammy-winning producer Joanna Nickrenz, was just 11 when she made her concerto debut at New York’s Town Hall. A featured soloist on the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center, she holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard.
Park’s solo debut came when she was 5; she went on to earn her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and her Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory.
Sant’Ambrogio studied as a child with her father, John Sant’Ambrogio, principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony, and at the age of 16 was invited to the Curtis Institute of Music on a full scholarship, before continuing on to Juilliard.
All three performers have earned many international awards and prizes at musical competitions; Sant’Ambrogio has won a Grammy award for her recording of Bernstein’s “Arias and Barcaroles.”
The intimate, acoustically sublime Opera House is the ideal hall in which to hear the award-winning trio, which has earned rave reviews from some of the world’s most demanding music critics.
Tickets for the Feb. 16 concert are $35, $30 for seats in the rear of the 500-seat Margrit Biever Mondavi Theatre. The box office, at 1030 Main St.,is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and 60 minutes before show time on performance nights. To purchase tickets online, visit www.nvoh.org or to order by phone, call 226-7372.
Eroica Trio
Feb. 16, 8 p.m.
$30, $35
Napa Valley Opera House
Box Office: 226-7372
www.nvoh.org
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