Featuring violinist Emily Daggett Smith! Program and other guests TBA.

Trio Cleonice – violinist Ari Isaacman-Beck, cellist Gwen Krosnick, and pianist Emely Phelps – enjoys a demanding and multi-faceted career that spans a busy concert schedule, frequent artist residencies and outreach, a considerable emphasis on contemporary music, and a new venture into presenting a series of its own. Highlights of Trio Cleonice’s

current and most recent seasons include the group’s European debut tour, spanning three countries and featuring a concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; annual recitals in Jordan Hall in Boston; the group’s Kennedy Center debut; a recording collaboration with composer Rodney Lister; residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute (a new artist retreat center in Boscawen, New Hampshire); the Jordan Hall premiere of a new work that the Trio commissioned from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Richard Wernick; beginning a new concert series – Trio Cleonice and Friends – in Brookline, Massachusetts; an artist residency at Yellow Barn – entitled “The Russian Soul – The Russian Voice” – during which the Trio intensively studied piano trios of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich alongside masterworks of Russian literature; an appearance at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall; and a very happy return to Kneisel Hall for a concert in the Festival’s 2015 summer season.