The Merz Trio In Quogue

The Merz Trio opens Quogue Chamber Music’s 2022 season on Saturday, June 18, at 7:30 p.m. The award-winning Merz Trio (Brigid Coleridge on violin, Lee Dionne and Julia Yangpiano, violin and cello) are known for their passionate playing and uniquely artistic programming style, interspersing classic trio works with interdisciplinary elements and their own arrangements.

Their June 18 program is titled “New Paths” and will include music by Beethoven, Brahms, Alban Berg and Alma Mahler. This combination of 19th and 20th century masterworks is quintessentially Austro-German in style and teeming with boundary-breaking energy. Beethoven’s middle period masterwork, Op. 70, #2, is paired with four later Viennese songs that draw attention to its lyrical and virtuosic elements, while Brahms’s glorious B Major Trio, composed when he was only 21, but revised in later years, showcases him as both a pioneering romantic and as a consummate master at the height of his powers.

The Merz Trio made a sweep of recent U.S. chamber awards, taking top prizes at the 2021 Naumburg, 2019 Concert Artists Guild, 2019 Fischoff and 2018 Chesapeake Competitions. Upcoming debut appearances include performances at New York’s Merkin Hall, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

The concert will be held at Quogue Community Hall, 125 Jessup Avenue. Tickets are $50 for adults ($110 includes post-concert celebration) and $5 for students (concert only). Purchase at quoguechambermusic.org. All ticket holders must show proof of vaccinations at the entrance and will be required to wear a mask.