Independent Arts News Reporting Black Oak Ensemble Performs During PSO Chamber Series at Trinity
Reported Monday, March 17, 2024.
Pictured Above: Black Oak Ensemble. Photo Credit: Ayaka Sano.
NEWSROOM POST: PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
Concert at Trinity Church, Princeton, Thursday, March 20 at 7pm
Princeton, NJ – The Black Oak Ensemble performs Thursday, March 20 at 7pm during the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)’s new chamber music series at Trinity Church. On the program are an arrangement of the aria from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Vittorio Monti’s Csárdás, based on a Hungarian folk dance, and trios by Gideon Klein, Jean Cras, and Henri Tomasi.
The Black Oak Ensemble consists of violinist Desirée Ruhstrat and cellist David Cunliffe, members of the GRAMMY®-nominated Lincoln Trio, and violist Aurélien Fort Pederzoli, a founding member of the ground-breaking, GRAMMY®-nominated Spektral Quartet.
One of the most innovative and exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage, the Black Oak Ensemble are the 2023 winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music Performance and the International Chamber Music Award. Black Oak’s latest CD, Avant l’orage, a double album of French string trios, reached #1 in the Billboard Classical Charts in July 2022. Black Oak’s début album on Cedille Records, Silenced Voices, is dedicated to Jewish composers, most of whom lost their lives during the Holocaust. Recent international tours have taken the Black Oak Ensemble to Amsterdam, Geneva, the Everlasting Hope Festival in Terezin, Paris, Grenoble, Athens, and other major cities. In the U.S., they have appeared at the Newport Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Art Institute of Chicago, and many other venues. They made their New York début in 2022 at the Morgan Museum.
General admission tickets for this performance are now available for $45 per person. Youths 5-17 receive a 50% discount with an adult purchase. Visit the Princeton Symphony Orchestra website at princetonsymphony.org or call 609-497-0020.
ABOUT THE PRINCETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is a cultural centerpiece of the Princeton community and one of New Jersey’s finest music organizations, a position established through performances of beloved masterworks, innovative music by living composers, and an extensive network of educational programs offered to area students free of charge. Led by Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov, the PSO presents orchestral, pops, and chamber music programs of the highest artistic quality, supported by lectures and related events that supplement the concert experience. Its flagship summer program the Princeton Festival brings an array of performing arts and artists to Princeton during multiple weeks in June. Through PSO BRAVO!, the orchestra produces wide-reaching and impactful education programs in partnership with local schools and arts organizations that culminate in students attending a live orchestral performance. The PSO receives considerable support from the Princeton community and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, regularly garnering NJSCA’s highest honor. Recognition of engaging residencies and concerts has come from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the PSO’s commitment to new music has been acknowledged with an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and a Copland Fund Award. The only independent, professional orchestra to make its home in Princeton, the PSO performs at historic Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
