Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio to perform for Core Curriculum Speaker Series
 The University Core Curriculum Speaker Series brings the Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio to USI on Thursday, September 14. The three women who make up the trio, pianist Erika Nickrenz, violinist Adela Peña, and cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio, will treat the University community to an educational performance at 7 p.m. in Mitchell Auditorium in the Health Professions Center.The performance is free and open to the public. Dr. Mark Krahling, director of the University Core Curriculum and associate professor of chemistry, said, “The Core Speaker Series brings people that are nationally and internationally recognized for their expertise and talent to the USI campus. This event will let the members of Eroica Trio share their music and their ideas about music with the students of USI. “I am impressed with the variety of music today’s young people have on their iPods. I haven’t noticed a lot of classical music, but the Eroica Trio may be the perfect group to make the introduction. They play classical music with the passion of a rock band.” The trio took its name from Beethoven’s Third Symphony, known as the Eroica, which is Italian for “heroic.” They won the prestigious 1991 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, resulting in a successful Lincoln Center debut and have since toured the United States, Europe, and Asia. They have released six critically-acclaimed recordings which received multiple Grammy nominations. They have appeared on numerous television programs, including ABC’s “The View,” CNN’s “Showbiz Today,” CBS and ABC News, the CBS “Morning Show” and “Saturday Morning,” A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts,” “The Isaac Mizrahi Show,” “Pure Oxygen,” and Fox’s “The Crier Report.” “Eroica,” a documentary about the trio, premiered on the PBS series “Independent Lens” in 2003. The group has been featured in such magazines as Elle, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Detour, Marie Claire, Gotham, Entrée, Bon Appétit, Time Out New York, Gramophone, Piano, Vivace, Auditorium, and Chamber Music, and have graced the covers of magazines as diverse as Fanfare, Cigar, Strings, Tall, and Strad. The Eroica Trio performs at USI in advance of their featured performance during the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra’s Opening Night Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, September 16, at the Victory Theatre. (Beginning one hour before the opening night concert, students with valid student ID can purchase tickets for $12. Student Rush tickets are $10 with student ID for any other classics or pops concert. One ticket per student ID.) “We are grateful that we could fit in this campus performance while the group is in Evansville to open the concert season for the Evansville Philharmonic, and we are hopeful that this event may lead to other collaborations between the Evansville Philharmonic and USI,” Krahling said. |
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