Trio Cavatina, Harumi Rhodes, violin; Priscilla Lee, cello, Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano, were the winner of the 2009 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Among their appearances at the time of their winning Naumburg included on Kneisel Hall's "Emerging Artists" series in Maine, at Union College in Schenectady, New York and Maryland's Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival as well as the closing concert of the Chamber Music America conference held in New York City. Performances highlights included a San Francisco debut concert, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concert series, in New York at the New School's Schneider concert series and at Merkin Concert Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, the Brattleboro Music Center, and the Performers of Westchester concert series.

In 2007-2008, they toured internationally performing in Lithuania on stages in Vilnius and Kaunas. In addition to the classical and romantic repertoire, Trio Cavatina is committed to collaborating with living composers and to performing 20th ad 21st century repertoire and have worked closely with American composer Leon Kirchner. They also appeared as guests of Robert Sherman on WQXR's McGraw-Hill Young Artist Showcase. Trio Cavatina were graduates of the New England Conservatory's Professional Piano Trio Training Program.

Trio Cavatina's Naumburg commisisonend work was "The Faces of Guernica" by Richard Danielpour. The work received its world premiere on May 26, 2010 in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

About "The Faces of Guernica" Richard Danielpour stated:

"When I was asked by Robert and Lucy Mann in 2009 to compose a work for the winning ensemble of the Naumburg Chamber Music competition, it was a special commission for me in that I had been asked 20 years ago to write a Naumburg commission but was unable to do so. "The Faces of Guernica' was an unusual work for me to write and it is the only piece that I have ever composed inspired by visual art.

In June 2009, I was on my way to Vienna with a layover in Madrid. I had the good fortune to spend some time wth my dear friends Dr. and Mrs. Vidal. Jose Manuel Vidal took me to the museum in Madrid the day I arrived, where I saw for the first time the famous Picasso painting, "Guernica." (The painting was created as a response to the bombing on the Basque town of Guernica, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces in 1937. It shows tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians.) Although this painting, arguably one of the great works of visiual art in the 20th century, had been at the Museum of Modern Art for years, I had never seen it in New York. When confronted by the painting, I was overwhelmed by its size and emotional content. I had recently learned that I would be writing a work for the Trio Cavatina and knew that the work composed would involve this painting. "The Faces of Guernica" is my attempt to explore the individual characters within the painting and in so doing give each one of these figures a voice. I wanted the piece to be somber with dual sesibility. I wanted it to be brutal and beautiful at the same time. The work, written in six movements, should be performed without pause. I'm pleased to have had this opportunity to write "The Faces of Guernica" for the Trio Cavatina."

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Trio Cavatina's Naumburg program from May 26, 2010, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall is listed below:

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio Opus 1, No. 1 in E-flat Major

Richard Danielpour: "The Faces of Guernica" (2009), World premiere, Naumburg commissioned work

Leon Kirchner: Trio No. 2 (1993)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio Opus 70, No. 1 "Ghost"

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