October 26, 2026
Claremont Trio
Kinan Azmeh, clarinet
Emily Bruskin, violin
Julia Bruskin, cello
Sophiko Simsive, piano
Kinan Azmeh, clarinet
The Claremont Trio has established itself as one of the leading piano trios in the United States. They have expanded the repertoire with many commissioned works and play with “aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance.” (Palm Beach Daily News) Here they offer an expressive trio by Rachmaninoff, Ravel’s ravishing Trio, and join “spellbinding” Syrian American clarinetist-composer Kinan Azmeh (New Yorker) for the New York Premiere of Gravitas, inspired by Middle Eastern folk music.
Program
RACHMANINOFF Trio élégiaque No. 1
KINAN AZMEH Gravitas — New York Premiere
KINAN AZMEH On Solitude and Other Ambiguous Emotions
RAVEL Piano Trio
Watch & Listen
The Claremont Trio performs Brahms’s Piano Trio in B Major, op. 8
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