About

Trio 180 (formerly New Pacific Trio), in residence at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, is quickly gaining recognition throughout the United States. This talented ensemble is made up of celebrated concert violinist Ann Miller, Grammy-nominated cellist Nina Flyer, and award-winning pianist Sonia Leong.

The 2014-15 season highlights include a performance for Composers Inc. and a concert tour to Vancouver, Canada, plus the completion of our first CD, featuring the works of Dvorak, Suk and Schumann.

The trio has previously given concerts and master classes throughout the West Coast, with a featured appearance in Guadalajara, Mexico in March 2009. An active advocate of new music, the trio was awarded a Barlow Grant in 2006 to commission eminent composer Chen Yi’s first piano trio, Tibetan Tunes, published by Theodore Presser. In addition, the trio has premiered works by Allan Crossman (Icarus), Jorge Liderman (Suite del Sur; Sidewalk recorded on Albany Records), Derek Jacoby (Trio No. 2), Francois Rose (Gently, Wild Rose Petals), Cindy Cox, UC Berkeley (Wave, recorded in summer, 2010) and has performed frequently on the Composers, Inc. series in San Francisco.

The 2013-14 season brought performances across California, including Santa Rosa, Gualala, Georgetown, Berkeley, and Sacramento as well as a return to Sundays at 3 in Columbia, Maryland. The trio continued its residency at Old First Church in San Francisco in November, with its popular interactive lecture Inside the Piano Trio, featuring the works of Robert Schumann. The season also included the world premiere of Robert Greenberg's 180 Shift, commissioned by and written for Trio 180.

Music

Beethoven, Ludwig Van | Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 “Archduke” | Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70 | Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1 No. 1 | Triple Concerto

Bloch, Ernest | Three Nocturnes

Brahms, Johannes | Trio in B Major, Op. 8 | Trio in C Major, Op. 87

Chen Yi | Tibetan Tunes (2007)

Copland, Aaron | Vitebsk

Dvorak, Antonin | Trio in F Minor, Op. 65 | Trio in E Minor, Op. 90 “Dumky”

Friar, Sean | Hellbent (2006)

Haydn, Joseph | Trio No. X, Hob. XV

Ives, Charles | Trio

Martin, Frank | Trio on Irish Folk Tunes

Mendelssohn, Felix | Trio in D Minor, Op. 49 | Trio in C Minor, Op. 66

Piazzolla, Astor | La Muerte del Angel* | Oblivion*

Ran, Shulamit | Soliloquy

Ravel, Maurice | Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello

Schoenfield, Paul | Café Music

Schubert, Franz | Trio in E Flat Major, Op. 100

Schumann, Robert | Trio in D Minor, Op. 63

Schumann, Robert | Trio in G Minor, Op. 110

Shostakovich, Dmitri | Trio in E Minor, Op. 67

Suk, Joseph | Elegie

Smetana, Bedrich | Trio in G Minor, Op. 15

St. Saens, Camille | Trio No.2 in E Minor, Op. 92

Videos

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