Polonsky-Shifrin -Wiley TRIO - 2027

We welcome cellist Peter Wiley back to the Recital Hall stage—if you’re lucky, you heard him here 25 years ago with the Guarneri Quartet. You may have heard him elsewhere with the Beaux Arts Trio, sometime between 1987 and ’98. Yes, I’m name-dropping and yes, he got an early start, entering Curtis at thirteen. But his is the third name in this eponymous trio. Let’s back up.

Pianist Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician. Ms. Polonsky has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, Juilliard, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, and Emanuel Ax. She has given concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was a member of its Chamber Music Society Two during 2002-2004.

A Yale University faculty member since 1987, clarinetist David Shifrin is artistic director of Yale’s Chamber Music Society series and Yale in New York, a concert series at Carnegie Hall. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society since 1982. He has collaborated with the Guarneri, Tokyo, and Emerson quartets, and frequently performs with pianist André Watts. Winner of the Avery Fisher Prize, he is also the recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A top prize winner in competitions throughout the world, including Munich, Geneva, and San Francisco, he has held principal clarinet positions in The Cleveland Orchestra and the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski. His recordings have received three Grammy nominations and his performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra was named Record of the Year by Stereo Review.

Can they play together? YES! The Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio made its debut at Dumbarton Oaks in February 2019. We look forward to a stunning concert of trios by Alexander Zemlinsky, Francis Poulenc, and Johannes Brahms (Op. 114). Highlights of their ongoing touring schedule include the Candlelight Concerts in Connecticut, Classic Chamber Concerts in Florida, the Chamber Music Societies in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Phoenix, the Fontana Chamber Music Society, at Yale and Clemson Universities, UCLA, and for the Market Square Concerts in Harrisburg. We are honored to join this list.