Pungent Sound Trio to Perform on April 24 with PSO

Princeton Symphony Orchestra Presents the Puget Sound Piano Trio

Pictured Above: Vocalist Morgan James. Photo Credit: Contributed.

Pictured Above: Puget Sound Piano Trio. Photo Credit: Sy Bean.

Newsroom Post: PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Princeton, NJ – On Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 pm, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) presents PSO principal cellist Alistair MacRae and musicians violinist Maria Sampen and pianist Ronaldo Rolim who make up the Puget Sound Piano Trio. The Trio is the ensemble-in-residence at University of Puget Sound School of Music in Tacoma, WA. The concert takes place at Trinity Church. On the program are Joseph Haydn’s Piano Trio in E Major, Hob.XV/28, Miguel Del Aguila’s Barroqueada, Op.128, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op.66.

Over its rich four-decade history, the Puget Sound Piano Trio has presented hundreds of concerts in venues throughout the United States. Members Maria Sampen, violin, Alistair MacRae, cello, and Ronaldo Rolim, piano bring distinguished musical backgrounds and a rich variety of professional experiences to their work as an ensemble. The Puget Sound Piano Trio is equally at home performing repertoire from the standard classical canon and hot-off-the-press works of living composers. In 2023, the Trio gave the West Coast premiere of Miguel del Aguila’s Barroqueada, a neo-Baroque suite infused with Latin-American dances. This became the seed of a program entirely dedicated to Latin-American music for the 2023-24 season, including 21st-century works by Gabriela Ortiz and Alejandro Cardona. The Trio can be heard on the 2020 Navona Records recording Drift, featuring Tianyi Wang’s trio Dark Blessing.

Pictured Above: Puget Sound Piano Trio. Photo Credit: Sy Bean.

Tickets for the chamber concert at Trinity Church are $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.

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.