Summit Trio
For Piano Trio (Trio from Triple Concerto)
Written: 2022-23
Duration: 9'
for piano trio (violin, cello, and piano)
Commissioned by Neave Trio
World Premiere: Neave Trio, Mostly Modern Festival, Arthur Zankel Music Center, Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 15, 2023.
Publisher: Bill Holab Music
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This work is derived from three movements from Triple Concerto, “Summit”
PROGRAM NOTE
Neave Trio | Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Summit Trio (a.k.a. Trio from Triple Concerto, "Summit") consists of three of the seven movements from Triple Concerto, “Summit” that focus on the solo trio. I designed these brief movements to function as a stand-alone chamber piece that can be used as a sort of "teaser" for the concerto. In the orchestral version of these movements, the orchestra enhances the trio now and then, but in this version, the trio performs by itself without any extra assistance from the orchestra.
Triple Concerto and Summit Trio were commissioned by the Neave Trio and premiered by the trio at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY.
– RP
Movements should be listed in programs as follows:
I. Chorale Prelude
II. Interlude
III. Cadenza
Press Quotes
“Triple Concerto is a stunning piece about climate change... Rob is a great tone painter of nature, of birds, of land and seascape, and all of that is on beautiful display in this work. At the end, the orchestra slowly exits the stage (with the woodwind “birds” singing until the last moment), leaving only the trio and conductor in silence. It is a tremendously moving piece...”