Event Details

Note: At 1:45 P.M. there will be a pre-concert panel discussion of the program by the trio and SR faculty member John Myers

Trio Appassionata: Lydia Chernicoff, violin, with cello and piano

Program: Beethoven Trio in E-flat, op. 1 no. 1; Chen Yi "Tibetan Tunes"; Tchaikovsky Trio in A minor.

Admission: Free and open to all

Trio Appassionata
Lydia Chernicoff, violin
Andrea Casarrubios, cello
Ronaldo Rolim, piano

Trio Appassionata was formed in December 2007 at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. Since the group’s founding, its members have been awarded numerous scholarships and prizes at competitions including I Solo Competition Illa de Menorca, Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, Baltimore Music Club, and the South Mountain Association Scholarship. The trio has been coached by some of today’s most eminent chamber musicians including Seth Knopp, Michael Kannen, Alison Wells, Violaine Melançon and Maria Lambros, as well as members of the Miró and Brentano Quartets.

The trio has performed in many concerts at Peabody including on the Thursday Noon Recital Series. In April 2008, Trio Appassionata was chosen to play in Peabody’s 150th Anniversary Gala and, in the Fall of 2010, the trio was selected amongst the first of the Peabody Honors Ensembles. This Spring, the trio will be performing in venues such as the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian and at Carnegie Hall.

Lydia Chernicoff is an active chamber musician and has recently performed in the United States and China. She is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in violin performance and pedagogy at the Peabody Conservatory, where she studies with Violaine Melançon. Ms. Chernicoff has won awards from the Berkshire Lyric Theatre Young Musicians Scholarship Competition and the South Mountain Concert Association. In the Spring of 2010, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in violin performance from the Peabody Conservatory and was awarded the Grace Clagett Ranney Prize in chamber music.

Born in Spain, Andrea Casarrubios is in the final year of her Bachelor’s Degree at the Peabody Conservatory where she studies with Amit Peled. Since 2007 she has been a recipient of the Anonymous Endowed Scholarship in Cello and the Beatrice Feldman Kahn and Raymond S. Kahn Endowed Cello Scholarship. Ms. Casarrubios has taken top prizes in eight competitions and has performed on stages across Europe and the United States.

Brazilian-born pianist Ronaldo Rolim earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory in the Spring of 2010. He currently is a Master of Music candidate in the same institution, studying with Benjamin Pasternack. He has performed actively in Brazil and the United States in solo and chamber recitals, masterclasses, and as a soloist with several orchestras. Mr. Rolim is a prizewinner of more than twenty competitions and a recipient of the Douglas and Hilda Goodwin Scholarship for Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.