Upon receiving Chamber Music America’s Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award in 2018, an award recognizing an individual who has provided historic service to the chamber music field, David Shifrin announced the formation of a new trio with the distinguished cellist Peter Wiley, and the rising star pianist Anna Polonsky. The Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio made its debut at Dumbarton Oaks in February 2019. Highlights of their ongoing touring schedule include the Candlelight Concerts in Connecticut, Classic Chamber Concerts in Florida, the Chamber Music Societies in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Phoenix, the Fontana Chamber Music Society, at Yale and Clemson Universities, UCLA, and for the Market Square Concerts in Harrisburg.

Pianist Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition to performing, she serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College, and in the summer at the Marlboro and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals. Ms. Polonsky is a Steinway Artist.

A Yale University faculty member since 1987, clarinetist David Shifrin is artistic director of Yale’s Chamber Music Society series and Yale in New York, a concert series at Carnegie Hall.

Cellist Peter Wiley enjoys a prolific career as a performer and teacher. He is currently on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Bard College Conservatory of Music.