The Springfield Chamber Players Horn Trio Returns to Asbury Hall This Month

The Springfield Chamber Players Horn Trio will return to Asbury Hall at Springfield's Trinity United Methodist  Church, 361 Sumner Avenue, under the auspices of Bing Productions, on Saturday, September 23, at 7:30PM. The Horn Trio, which opened the Westfield Athenaeum series last season, features violinist Beth Welty, horn player Sarah Sutherland, and pianist Elizabeth Skavish. They will perform Frédéric Duvernoy’s Trio No. 1 for Violin, Horn, and Piano; Trygve Madsen’s Trio, Op. 110 for Violin, Horn and Piano; Johannes Brahms’ Trio in Eb Major for Violin, Horn, and Piano; and Max Mueller’s “Triptych” for Violin, Horn and Piano, a MOSSO-commissioned work which had its world premiere at Sevenars this summer.

Violinist Beth Welty received her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in violin performance from Indiana University, where she was a student of Yuval Yaron. She has performed with numerous groups in the Boston area: the Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society; the Handel and Haydn Society; and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. She has performed abroad with various organizations, including a tour of Italy with the Chorus of Westerly and of South Africa with the London Chamber Players. She toured Spain twice as concertmaster of the Massachusetts Symphony. In 2014, she traveled to Switzerland to perform a solo recital, and in 2015, she toured with the Aryaloka String Quartet to perform five concerts in England. Beth is the Assistant Principal Second Violin with the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra, Principal Second Violin with the New Hampshire Philharmonic, and has served as Concertmaster of the Nashua Chamber Orchestra since 2005. An avid chamber musician, Beth is a founding member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. In 1991 she made her Lincoln Center debut in New York with the Boston Quartet, of which she was also a founding member. She maintains a private teaching studio at her home in Waltham, and is a teacher at the Upbeat NH Strings program in Nashua, NH. Beth is currently Chair of MOSSO.

Sarah Sutherland is a Boston-based musician who performs and teaches throughout the Northeast. She is currently the third horn in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, hornist in the Back Bay Brass Quintet, and the Finance Officer for the Musicians of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MOSSO). Ms. Sutherland has performed and recorded with many ensembles, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company, and was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow for two summers. She teaches privately, at Powers Music School in Belmont, and at Wellesley Public Schools. Ms. Sutherland graduated from Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, and New England Conservatory, where she studied with James Sommerville and Jason Snider. She holds degrees in music, mathematics, and statistics. 

Elizabeth Skavish is a pianist of striking versatility. Her performance credits include solo recitals, concertos, chamber music, contemporary music, and orchestral piano in venues including Symphony Hall, the Wang Theatre, Jordan Hall, Shalin Liu Performance Center, and the French Library of Boston. Ms. Skavish’s concerto performances have included appearances with the Collegium Musicum Schloss Pommersfelden in Germany, and the Ocean State Chamber Orchestra in Rhode Island. Ms. Skavish performs frequently with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra as an orchestral pianist. She has had chamber music residencies at the Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory with Trio Capriccio, of which she was a founding member, and has collaborated with members of the Boston, Pittsburgh, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. She is also a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. Ms. Skavish was invited to give a lecture recital by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston in Sanders Theatre on “Beethoven and the Development of the Piano,” and by the European Listening and Health Care Conference in Nijmegen, Netherlands on “Listening for Emotion in Music and Human Interaction.” Ms. Skavish is on the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and is a recipient of the University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Award. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory. Her principal teachers have been Randall Hodgkinson, Joseph Schwartz, Eugene List, Peter Takács, and Maria Caruso.

For tickets, $20.00 general admission: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/springfield-chamber-players-horn-trio-tickets-706980847747?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR2dKShfpGq8YzDnTcf52FKKuVaT-yTeCey9PodafhcH-ntwytN1pTNiWYw 

The Springfield Chamber Players String Quartet will perform under the auspices of Bing Productions at Trinity Church on Saturday, November 18, at 7:30pm. Miho Matsuno, violinist, Robert Lawrence, violinist, Martha McAdams, violist, and Patricia Edens, cellist will perform works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Elgar and Britten. For program details: www.springfieldsymphonymusicians.com

The Springfield Chamber Players is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, which was organized by the musicians in 2021 to produce and perform concerts in Greater Springfield and Western Massachusetts. To date, they have presented their musicians in pop-up concerts throughout the area; performances with local ensembles, including the Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival; two full orchestral performances with Maestro Kevin Rhodes in Springfield’s Symphony Hall; a Sondheim tribute with full orchestra and singers at Symphony Hall; and a recent series of chamber ensemble concerts in Westfield, Longmeadow, Springfield, and Blandford. For further information about Springfield Chamber Players programs, visit Springfield Chamber Players at: www.SpringfieldSymphonyMusicians.com.

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