Dana Piano Trio performs free pre-Carnegie concert at the Butler

If you can't make it to Carnegie Hall this spring for the performance of the Dana Piano Trio, you might consider attending the group's Music at Noon Concert Wednesday, Feb. 20, 12:15 p.m. in the Butler Institute of American Art.

The Music at Noon concert is free and open to the public and features YSU Dana School of Music professors Cicilia Yudha, piano, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello and Joseph Kromholz, violin.

The Trio will perform some of the same pieces they are expected to perform at a concert in Carnegie Hall in New York on Friday, March 22, including Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67.

Founded in 2017, the Dana Piano Trio is quickly emerging as one of the most exciting and engaging chamber groups today. Founded by Yudha, Cahn-Lipman and Kromholz, the trio performs and teaches across the United States. The Trio’s members each have active performing careers as soloists and chamber musicians, and hold degrees from many of the world’s most prestigious conservatories, including the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music and Oberlin Conservatory.

In 2018-19, the Dana School of Music celebrates 150 years as one of the region's finest cultural institutions. William Henry Dana's visionary "Musical Institute" has produced generations of professional musicians who perform in prestigious orchestras, military and jazz bands, and contemporary ensembles; teach in elite conservatories; and develop future musicians in primary and secondary schools throughout the US.

Parking for the Music at Noon concert is available in the Wick Avenue deck for a nominal fee or adjacent to the museum. More information is available at 330-941-2307.