Chamber Music Amici – Master Works

Sunday, June 14, 2026 • 3:00 p.m.
Monday, June 15, 2026 • 7:30 p.m.
Pre-concert talk by Dr. Terry McQuilkin:
Sunday 2:15 p.m. • Monday 6:45 p.m

Chamber Music Amici closes its 2025-26 season with Master Works, a program pairing two cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire: Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart's Piano Trio No. 5 in C Major, K. 548, and Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67.

The program features Chamber Music Amici's three core members: Artistic Director Eunhye
Grace Choi on piano, Tomás Cotik on violin, and Steven Pologe on cello. Both works are scored
for piano, violin, and cello, and each puts the full expressive range of the ensemble on display.

Composed in 1788, Mozart's Piano Trio No. 5 in C Major is a landmark of classical chamber
writing, marked by elegance, clarity, and the easy conversational interplay that defines his
mature style. Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor, completed in 1914, draws on Basque folk rhythms,
exotic poetic forms, and shimmering orchestral colors to create one of the great works of
twentieth-century chamber music. Together, the two trios offer audiences a vivid portrait of
the form across more than a century of musical evolution.