Verve Trio
Chia-Lin Yang, concert director & piano
Elbert Tsai, violin
Brady Anderson, cello
Verve Trio returns this season with an evocative program exploring the powerful dualities of emotional depth and delicate nuance in chamber music! We open with Rebecca Clarke’s Piano Trio, a work of striking intensity and lyricism that reveals the composer’s bold harmonic language and expressive range. The program continues with a newly commissioned work by UC Santa Cruz Composition Assistant Professor Matthew Schumaker, whose music offers a fresh and intricate reflection on the theme of intimacy in the modern world. We conclude our program with Johannes Brahms’ radiant Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8—a masterwork that balances sweeping Romantic warmth with moments of quiet introspection. Together, these works invite listeners into a sound world where passion meets poise, and where every gesture speaks with intention.
