Rebecca Penneys, piano

Piotr Janowski, violin

Steven Doane, cell0

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The New Arts Trio was named a winner of the 1980 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Formed in 1974 as Trio-in-Residence at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee, the Trio presented their first ensemble performance in April 1977, performing nationally, including in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington DC., and Los Angeles, in addition to an annual chamber music series in Milwaukee, where they served as faculty of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.

Both performing and team teaching chamber music, the New Arts Trio appeared on campuses from Newfoundland to Berkeley. The members of the Trio held faculty appointments at the Eastman School of Music and were in residence at the Chautauqua Music Festival from 1978-2012, launching its chamber music program. In the 1980s they made two USIS Cultural State Department tours of Europe. The New Arts Trio recorded on the Fleur De Son Classics label.

As part of their Naumburg prize they were awarded a commissioned work by Robert Moevs, Trio, which received its world premiere on the New Arts Trio's Naumburg concert on April 28, 1981 in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.

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Namburg Concert, April 28, 1981, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

New Arts Trio, 1980 Chamber Music Award

Rebecca Penneys, piano; Piotr Janowski, violin; Steven Doane, cello

Program

Beethoven: Trio in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3

Charles Ives: Trio (1904)

Robert Moevs: Trio, World premiere, Naumburg commission

Brahms: Trio in B Major, Op. 8

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Review excerpt, The New York Times, April 29, 1981

Concert New Arts Trio Plays New Moevs Work

"won last year's Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's Chamber Music Award, and its concert last night at Alice Tully Hall abundantly showed why. This prize does not normally go to untried ensembles, however promising, but is a laurel wreath placed on the brow of a group that is fully fledged and already highly professional. The New Arts Trio, a piano trio, fulfilled those criteria nicely.

The Moevs Trio, a two-movement piece distinctly mid-20th century in idiom, began with a morose dialogue between violin and cello. The piano grumbled what sounded like a protest, finally, but soon joined the somber discussion. In the second movement, entitled Epilogue, the strings made some ghostly, glassy sounds by fiddling furiously at the bridge, but the whole work left an impression of grayness and unspecific gravity." - Donal Henahan

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