Aviara Trio comes to Fallbrook

FALLBROOK – Starting off the New Year in grand style, Fallbrook Music Society will present Aviara Trio Sunday, Jan. 28, at 3 p.m. at the Fallbrook Public Library. The concert is free to the general public and tickets are not required.

"I am exceptionally excited for this concert as Aviara Trio has a huge following across Southern California and they are performing two of the most popular trios written for piano, violin and cello," said Ann Murray, executive director of Fallbrook Music Society. "For classical music lovers, it doesn't get any better than this."

Pianist Ines Irawati, violinist Robert Schumitzky, and cellist Erin Breene are Aviara Trio. They have performed at Point Loma Nazarene University's Crill Hall, High Desert Chamber Music series, Bradford House series, Concerts at the Merc in Temecula, Encinitas By-the-Sea Soirée, just to name a few. All members of the group are frequent performers with the renowned San Diego-based Art of Élan, as well as Camarada and La Jolla's Athenaeum series.

With performance degrees from the Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, Yale University and Rice University, Irawati, Breene, and Schumitzky have studied and performed with some of the world's finest musical pedagogues, including Paul Katz, Claude Frank, Joseph Silverstein, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian and the Juilliard and Miró Quartets.

The Jan. 28 concert features Piano Trio in C Major, K. 548 by W.A. Mozart which was completed in July 1788, shortly before the completion of Mozart's heroic "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41. It was one of three piano trios that Mozart wrote simultaneously and continues to be one of the most widely performed trios ever written. In addition, the program includes Piano Trio No. 2, in c minor Opus 66 by Felix Mendelssohn, the last chamber work that he lived to see published before his untimely death at the age of 38.

The program preview starts at 2:30 p.m. and, weather permitting, a reception will immediately follow the concert on the Poet's Patio. More information is available through FallbrookMusicSociety.org.