MUSIC MATTERS: NEAVE TRIO ~ A ROOM OF HER OWN at La Grua Center: Stonington

Neave Trio
Anna Williams, violin
Mikhail Veselov, violoncello
Eri Nakamura, 1886 Chickering concert grand

A Room of Her Own
Piano trios by woman composers

Reena Esmail (b. 1986)  Piano Trio
Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1986)  Four Folk Songs
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)  Piano trio in d
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)  Deux Pièces en Trio

In the early 19th century, the confident voices of a new generation of woman composers joined those of their male counterparts. Later that same century, they calmly bestrode the prominent Paris and London stages. New England and New York were witnesses to the dramatic increase in esteem in which colleagues and the public held the women who, through sheer talent, began to occupy stages and conservatory posts once reserved for men. The Neave Trio‘s elegant program reveals the fetching additions female composers and musicians have since made to the piano trio repertoire. This music is irresistible! It’s also ideal for the big Chickering concert grand, a Boston voice some of our brave, gifted women knew well.