2026/01/20 The Merz Trio : Chamber Music Houston

Merz Trio

2025-2026 Season

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Stude Concert Hall, Brockman Music and Performing Arts Center

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BEETHOVEN

Piano Trio in C minor, op.1/3

SCHOENBERG

Verklärte Nacht, op.4

DVOŘÁK

Piano Trio #3 in F minor, op.65

PERFORMERS

Brigid Coleridge violin

Julia Yang cello

Amy Yang piano

Merz Trio returns with another powerful program. Sandwiched between Beethoven’s Piano Trio (a conversation of tension and dark lyricism) and Dvořák’s Piano Trio (an emotionally rich venture of intense inner conflict) we find the sweet center: Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”), a journey of tonal richness from D minor to D major, reviving harmonic language reminiscent of both Wagner and Brahms.

“It’s tempting to single out individual members for the way each distinguishes particular passages, but it’s ultimately the trio’s playing as a unit that makes the greater impact.”

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“It’s tempting to single out individual members for the way each distinguishes particular passages, but it’s ultimately the trio’s playing as a unit that makes the greater impact.”

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