The Aviara Trio will return to the Rancho Bernardo Library with its mix of international music on Tuesday, April 22.
Violinist Robert Schumitzky, cellist Erin Breene and pianist Ines Irawati will be giving their annual performance as part of the Friends of the Rancho Bernardo Library’s free Chamber Concert Series at 6 p.m.
Schumitzky said the Aviara Trio has been performing at the library for at least the last 15 years.
This year’s program will consist of music by Spanish composer Joaquín Turina, German composer Johannes Brahms and Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.
The concert will open with Turina’s Trio no.2, Op. 76, which has three movements and is about 20 minutes long, Schumitzky said.
“It has Spanish themes and is easy to listen to,” he said.
Reflecting the ensemble’s flair for romantic music, it will then play Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87.
“His most famous is the one in B Major, which we have played many times at the Rancho Bernardo Library,” Schumitzky said. “We love it just as much as the one in C Major.”
He said the four-movement piece has “beautiful melodies with a Scottish snap rhythm in the second movement and a lot of Hungarian gypsy style in its soaring melodies.
“It fits with our style,” Schumitzky said of the 30-minute piece.
To close out the 1 hour 15 minute show, Schumitzky said the trio will perform two short pieces by Piazzolla.
The first is the “Spring” portion of Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.” The concert will close with his “Libertango,” which Schumitzky said many attendees will likely recognize.
“It is a cool, fast piece,” he said. “Piazzolla is the tango composer, the first to have tango cross over to the classical world.”
Schumitzky said the trio formed 20 years ago, before he and Breene married and moved to Newport Beach. Breene and Irawati, who lives in San Diego, were playing as a duo when he ed them.
Since then, they have performed up and down the coast and last year went on a “mini tour” in Oregon. They have also performed at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100-year anniversary celebration; for the High Desert Chamber Music series in Bend, Oregon; for the Fallbrook Music Society series; the Bradford House and the Encinitas by-the-Sea Soirée.
Each of the musicians has also had long individual careers with various orchestras throughout Southern California.
Schumitzky earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School and he plays on the “Ex-Halir” Stradivarius violin made in 1694, per his bio.
Breene earned her bachelor’s from Rice University and her master’s at the Juilliard School. She plays a modern cello made in 2013 by the Los Angeles maker Eric Benning, according to her bio.
Irawati, who has also given solo concerts at the RB Library, earned her bachelor’s at the Cleveland Institute of Music and her master’s from Yale University, according to her bio.
The concert will be in the Rancho Bernardo Library’s second-floor community room, 17110 Bernardo Center Drive. ission is free and on a first-come basis as seating is limited. Free-will donations will be accepted to the concert series.
For details, visit FriendsOfTheRBLibrary.org or call 858-538-8163.
