Textures

Textures explores the layered meanings of “tract” through three powerful and contrasting chamber works. Franz Schubert’s unfinished String Trio in B-flat Major opens the program with a compact, elegant study in musical motion, balancing ascending arpeggios and descending scales in a kind of lyrical pamphlet. Joan Tower’s To Sing or Dance, a newly commissioned piece, evokes the vitality of the natural world through her signature earthy textures and vivid musical imagery. The program closes with Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2, a searing memorial to his closest friend, unfolding as an expansive emotional landscape marked by grief, stillness, and unrelenting intensity.

ARTISTS
Gloria Chien, piano
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Philip Setzer, violin
Che-Yen Chen, viola
Edward Arron, cello
Paul Watkins, cello
Third Coast Percussion
    Sean Connors
    Robert Dillon
    Peter Martin
    David Skidmore

Performance Sponsors: Tower To Sing or Dance | Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation
Piano Sponsorship: The use of pianos throughout the Festival is sponsored by Andrea & Woody Leung.