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Amadeus Trio performs Tuesday at UI

The Spokesman-Review

The well-traveled Amadeus Trio concludes this year’s Auditorium Chamber Music Series with a concert Tuesday at the University of Idaho.

Pianist Marian Hahn is a professor at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the Singapore Conservatory. Violinist Timothy Baker is concertmaster of the Wolf Trap festival orchestra. Cellist Jeffrey Solow is a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Their program Tuesday will include Beethoven’s Trio Op. 70, subtitled “The Ghost”; Joaquin Turina’s Piano Trio Op. 76; and Mendelssohn’s Trio in C minor, Op. 66.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. in the University Auditorium on the Moscow campus. Tickets are $18 for adults, $14 for seniors and $8 for students, through the UI Ticket Office (208-885-7212) and TicketsWest outlets (325-SEAT, 800-325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com).

Trio members also will be giving master classes and coaching instrumentalists on Tuesday and Wednesday in events open to the public. For details, see www.class.uidaho.edu/concerts.

Youth winners in CdA

Winners of the piano and vocal divisions in this year’s Coeur d’Alene Symphony/Opera Plus Young Musicians competition will perform with the symphony’s Chamber Orchestra on Saturday.

They include Tasha Koontz, soprano, Chattaroy, Wash., winner of the high school vocal division; Emily Callender, mezzo soprano, Eastern Washington University, college vocal division; and Christina Liu, Cheney, high school piano division.

The winners will perform works by Mozart, Purcell and Handel. They will be accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra, which also will play Mozart’s symphonies No. 1 and 2 and Hayden’s Symphony No. 1.

The concert begins Saturday at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Sixth and Lakeside in Coeur d’Alene. Admission is free; donations will be accepted.