WMU faculty ensemble, Merling Trio, joined by guest artists

KALAMAZOO, Mich.--WMU School of Music faculty ensemble, Merling Trio, will be joined by Jun-Ching Lin and Andrew Koehler for a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 at the Dalton Center Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

Joined by Lin on viola and Koehler on violin, the ensemble will perform the Dvorak Piano Quintet, Op. 81. The trio will begin the program with a set of Brahms' Hungarian Dances, in a newly-discovered arrangement for piano trio by Brahm's contemporary Freidrich Hermann.

The Merling Trio will then pay homage to their friend and colleague C. Curtis-Smith with a performance of The Secret Heart of Sound, written by Curtis-Smith for the Merling Trio's 1993 Carnegie Hall performance.

The Merling Trio, in a collaborative effort with the Kalamazoo Philharmonia, is sponsoring the residency Lin, who is the Assistant Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony, for a weeklong series of events in the Kalamazoo area, which will culminate with the concert on Nov. 16. Lin is well-known in the Kalamazoo area as frequent guest concertmaster of the Kalamazoo Symphony. His residency in Kalamazoo will include a performance of the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Kalamazoo Philharmonia, as well as a master class at Western Michigan University.

Koehler is the Musical Director of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia.

For more information about the concert, visit wmich.edu/music or call (269) 387-4667.

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