Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, the Ahn Trio--sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella--will perform Feb. 28 as part of Mississippi State University's Lyceum Series.
Their 7:30 p.m. concert in McComas Hall theater will feature well known piano-trio literature, as well as works commissioned by contemporary composers.
Available at the door, tickets are $15 for adults; $10 for senior citizens, by request; and $8 for children 3-12 years old. MSU students are admitted free with valid student identification.
The trio won top prizes at the 1992 Alliance Northeast Competition for Chamber Ensembles, as well as the Coleman Chamber Competition, an annual national competition for young performers. The sisters have been featured in Vogue, GQ and Town and Country magazines, as well as the New York Times.
Their first recording, of Ravel and Villa-Lobos trios, won critical acclaim, and their next, a recording of trios by Suk, Dvorak and Shostakovich, won Germany's prestigious Echo Award. A 1997 MTV appearance on Bryan Adams' "Unplugged" program led to the development of Ahn-Plugged, a compact disc recording typifying the energy of the group.
Newsday has described the Ahn Trio as "the new classical revolutionaries," and the St. Augustine Record describes their artistry as music that "tears at one's soul. . . . If this is where modern music is headed, I am all for it," the paper's music critic said.
For more information about the Lyceum Series, telephone (662) 325-4201 or visit www.msstate.edu/dept/lyceum. For more information about the Ahn Trio, visit www.ahntrio.com.