NMM Live! Concert: Aspen String Trio

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National Music Museum to present the Aspen String Trio in collaboration with Sioux City Tolerance Week The National Music Museum’s NMM Live! will feature the Aspen String Trio for a special concert presented in collaboration with Sioux City Tolerance Week this month.

The performance will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 30th in the NMM’s Janet Wanzek Performance Hall on the campus of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, SD. Admission is free.
 

Celebrated for virtuosic performances offered with keen insight, masterful nuance, and good-natured humor, the Aspen String Trio is one of the rare professional string trios performing and touring today. In addition to the complete trios of Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert, they offer lesser-known works, including those of profound beauty by composers tragically suppressed by the Nazi regime, like Hans Krasà, Gideon Klein and Mieczylaw Weinberg.

Members of the trio include violinist David Perry, a former member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra who now leads the Pro Arte Quartet, in residence at University of Wisconsin-Madison where he holds an endowed professorship. Perry is also concertmaster of the Chicago Philharmonic. Cellist Michael Mermagen is Associate Professor of Cello at UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance. Formerly Associate Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at The Catholic University of America, he has served as Chamber Symphony Principal Cellist of the Aspen Music Festival and School for more than 25 years. Violist Victoria Chiang is a member of the artist faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music; formerly on the faculty of The Juilliard School and the Hartt School of Music, she previously served on the board of the American Viola Society.