Wieniawski Trio featured in Kosciuszko Foundation Concert

Violinist ANNA RABINOVA was born in Moscow, and graduated from that city\'s Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music where her teachers were Igor Bezrodnyi and Leonid Kogan. After moving to New York she studied with Joseph Fuchs at The Juilliard School. Ms. Rabinovae won the Bach International Violin Competition in Leipzig, Germany and the first prize in the International Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade. In recent seasons she has toured Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria.  A member of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, she is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, in addition to giving master classes in the U.S. and abroad.

Cellist SOPHIE SHAO received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant at the age of nineteen, and has gone on to an international teaching and performing career. A native of Houston, she entered the Curtis Institute at the age of thirteen, and continued her studies at Yale University. She is on the faculty of Vassar College and the Bard Conservatory of Music

Pianist PEI-YAO WANG has established herself as a prominent soloist and chamber musician, and  has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia; She is currently a member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center, a program to promote emerging young artists.
 
Born in Taiwan, Pai-Yao was invited at the age of 12 to study at The Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with Seymour Lipkin and Institute Director Gary Graffman. She then studied with Claude Frank at Yale University, where she received the Master of Music degree, and also pursued a concentration in architecture. She currently resides in New York City, where for several years she was the only student of Richard Goode.

Jozef Wieniawski\'s rarely-heard Piano Trio in G is featured in concert on Sunday, November 15, 3pm at the Kosciuszko Foundation (15 East 65th Street, Fifth/Madison). Karol Szymanowski\'s Mythes are also included, and the program closes with Johannes Brahms\' masterwork Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8. Tickets are $25 ($15 for KF members), and can be reserved by calling the Foundation Office at (212) 734-2130.