Merz Trio has been lauded as “entrancing” (BBC Music Magazine) and “artists in the deepest sense of the word” (CutCommon). Winners of the Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff, and Chesapeake Competitions, the group has established itself at the forefront of the US chamber music scene. Merz Trio is passionately committed to reshaping the narrative of classical music through vibrantly dynamic programming and wide-ranging interdisciplinary collaboration for violin, cello, and piano.
Their program explores the musical and cultural collisions of the Second Viennese School with the new —through the lens of Alma Mahler’s fabled journeys through the United States.
This concert is generously co-sponsored by Hudson Todd, LLC
Join Merz Trio as we search for song in night’s darknesses. Beginning with the 12th
century chants spun by Hildegard von Bingen in her solitary monastic cell, we explore
melody sung into and for the night, weaving together a musical conversation that joins
the voices of Purcell, Schumann, Alma Mahler, Brahms and Zemlinsky in works large and
small, and brings us right into the twentieth century with Thelonious Monk’s poignantly
lonely ode to a dark hour, ‘Round Midnight.