Streeton Trio Returns to Independent Theatre

The internationally-acclaimed trio featuring Emma Jardine (violin), Benjamin Kopp (piano) & Meta Weiss (cello) presents more masterworks by Europe's leading composers around the time of the 1814 Vienna Congress: Schubert, Brahms and Beethoven.

The concert is a follow up to their sell-out February concert at the same venue and,
appropriately for a Viennese treat, there will be free cake, coffee, tea and beverages included!

Named after the Australian Impressionist painter, Sir Arthur Streeton and described by Musica Viva as
"Australia's most internationally successful piano trio", the Streeton Trio was formed in 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland, by three young Australian musicians. In 2010, the trio was selected to be a part of the prestigious European Chamber Music Academy, where it was in residence for three years.

Winner of the 2011 Music Viva Chamber Music Competition, the trio has been laureate of several prestigious international competitions and has won scholarships from Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria and Ian Potter Cultural Trust and, in 2012, was featured as Musica Viva's Rising Stars ensemble.

Streeton has received great acclaim for performances in venues from Holland to China, France, Austria, Switzerland, the UK and more. They also have an impressive recording history and feature regularly on classical music radio. Visit www.streetontrio.com for more.

This concert's program explores the complex musical situation in Vienna, the capital of European music at the beginning of the 1800s. These two decades of great cultural ferment saw the Vienna Congress (1814/1815) as the turning point between the ideals of the Enlightenment and those of the Restoration. There was a radical change in the social role of music, which was no longer used as an instrument of awareness and knowledge, but instead became a narcotic, useful to disguise the harsh reality of post-Napoleonic and post-Enlightenment society.

These historical circumstances deeply characterized the work of the most important composers of the time: Beethoven and Schubert- who gravitated around Vienna influencing one another - and, a little later, Brahms.

Program (including one 20 minute interval):
Schubert: Piano Trio "Sonatensatz" in B flat major D28 (12 mins)
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major Op.70 No.1 "The Ghost" (27 mins)
Brahms: Piano Trio No.3 in C major Op.87 (30 mins)

The Streeton Trio - TALES FROM VIENNA
Saturday 20 May at 3pm | The Independent Theatre 269 Miller St North Sydney
Tickets: $37 adult | $27 conc | $15 students & $10 children - with complimentary cake & refreshments
Bookings ph: 9955 3000 or on-line at www.theindependent.org.au