April 26: Chamber Music at the Gallery features the Atlantean Trio

The concluding concert of the Chamber Music at the Art Trail Gallery 2014-15 season will present the Atlantean Trio. The concert will be held on Sunday April 26 at 5pm in the gallery at the corner of Irby and W Evans St. The program will include the Beethoven Piano Trio in G Major and the Smetana Piano Trio in G minor. A meet the artist reception will follow the program. Tickets are $10 available at the gallery or at the door.

The talented musicians in the trio are ABIGAIL VAN STEENHUYSE, originally from Annapolis, Maryland, received degrees in violin performance from East Carolina University and University of Michigan.  She is the winner of the Mary Ruth Hardy Violin Scholarship and the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Dr. Richard Thomas is Associate Professor of Music and director of the Chamber Orchestra at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina and Adjunct Instructor of Cello at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina and BARRY DAVID SALWEN is an international concert pianist, giving performances and master classes in the US, Europe, Israel, and Asia.  He gave two weeks of master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory in China, among many other places.

This concert is made possible through funding from the Florence Regional Arts Alliance's Quarterly Grants Program, which is funded in part by a generous award from Honda of South Carolina, the South Carolina Arts Commission and the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC.

March 25th: Atlantean Trio at the Art Trail Gallery in Florence

Extraordinary Afternoon of Music with the Atlantean Trio

Chamber Music at the Gallery continues it exciting series at the Art Trail Galleryon Sunday March 25, 2012 with the Atlantean Trio. The performance is at 5PM followed by a reception. Ticket are $10 each available at the gallery and at the door. The program will feature the Beethoven Trio in E-Flat Major Op. 1 No. 1 and the Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87.

THE ATLANTEAN PIANO TRIO was formed in 2005 by Department of Music faculty members at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  The trio’s name was created to complement UNCW's award-winning, student-produced creative magazine the Atlantis, which in turn reflects the university’s unique Atlantic Ocean coastal location in beautiful Wilmington, North Carolina.  Richard Thomas and Barry Salwen are original members; Abigail Van Steenhuyse joined the trio in 2011.  Since its establishment, the trio has performed regularly at university and college venues and recital series in North and South Carolina.

Please join us for another exciting afternoon of music with these extraordinarily talented musicians.