Alexandra Balog, Rosa Hartley & Máté Tomasz Chamber Recital

Few piano trios venture into performing contemporary works. The chamber concert by Alexandra Balog, Rosa Hartley and Máté Tomasz certainly adds to the series of concerts that are both innovative and tailored to the audience’s interests. The program of the two halves of the concert is symmetrical: in both parts, a contemporary piano trio opens the performance, followed by a contemporary solo cello piece, and each half concludes with works by the greatest classical composers. The representation of new works is just as important as the fact that they are performed by artistically mature and insightful musicians. All three young musicians belong to the forefront of their generation, as do the contemporary composers they have selected, who are nearly the same age as the performers. Including classical composers in the program not only offers the opportunity to experience the differences between today’s music and that of the 18th century but also allows us to observe which gestures and musical traditions from earlier eras have been preserved and incorporated into the works of today’s composers.