Trio Cleonice, Graduate Piano Trio-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music, has quickly established itself as one of the most creative, communicative, and exciting young ensembles in the United States. Violinist Ari Isaacman-Beck, cellist Gwen Krosnick, and pianist Emely Phelps formed Trio Cleonice in 2008 at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival; the group enjoys a diverse repertoire that spans early trios of Mozart and Beethoven through romantic masterworks and new pieces, including commissions, for the genre.
Trio Cleonice’s 2011-2012 season included debuts in Boston’s Jordan Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The trio gave performances at Oberlin Conservatory and Elmira College, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and NYU’s La Maison Française. Trio Cleonice held performance and teaching residencies in Blue Hill, Maine and in Frederick, Maryland. The trio was top prizewinner at the 2012 J.C. Arriaga Chamber Music Competition in Stamford, Connecticut, and will appear as part of the Treetops Chamber Music Society’s 2012-2013 calendar.
Highlights of the upcoming season, within Boston, include Trio Cleonice’s annual Jordan Hall recital, this year in March of 2013; a free community performance in Jordan Hall as part of the Fenway Cultural District’s “Opening Our Doors Day”; a recital at the Old South Meeting House; and the group’s debut on the Concord Chamber Music Society series. Trio Cleonice will appear up and down the east coast, with residencies in Blue Hill, Maine and Frederick, Maryland, as well as performances in New York and Philadelphia, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Woodstock, Vermont, and Jacksonville, Florida. As has been the case since the group’s first year together, Trio Cleonice will begin the 2012-2013 season with a pair of concerts at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Castine, Maine, featuring new American piano trios in addition to major works from the canon.
