November 3, 2005
Paris Piano Trio plays Meany
Meany Hall’s International Chamber Music Series continues with a program of classical and romantic music performed by the Paris Piano Trio at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9. The group will play selections by Haydn, Schumann and Schubert.
The Paris Piano Trio is made up of Regis Pasquier on violin, Roland Pidoux, on cello and Jean-Claude Pennetier on piano. The men have been connected by their love of chamber music since they were students together at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. In fact, they did their first tour together when Pasquier was only 13. They all graduated from the conservatory, and all are now professors there.
Although all three musicians have solo careers, they also devote considerable time and energy to the trio. Their recordings include Tchaikovsky and Shostakovitch on the Lyrinx label in 1998, the trios of Schubert and Brahms, and the chamber music of Chausson on the Harmonia Mundi label, all released under the name Les Musiciens, by which they are known in Europe.
Tickets to the performance are $31 and are available at the Arts Ticket Office, or online at www.uwworldseries.org. There will be a pre-concert lecture at 7:15 p.m. in the Meany Hall west lobby.
