Pathos Trio

Three Village Chamber Players (3VCP) strives to be an essential source of artistry in Suffolk County and surrounding areas by embedding music performances in spaces that are central to the community. Rather than summoning audiences to designated concert halls, 3VCP is an organization defined by its immersion in the community. Our concerts bring a diverse audience together and contribute to building the exuberance of the local arts scene.Since May 2020, 3VCP has been offering weekly online concerts, called Musicasts, featuring musical content created uniquely for the digital space. Musicasts can be accessed through a free ticket reservation on our Eventbrite page and enjoyed from the comfort of your home.Three Village Chamber Players is a Musicivic organization, an incubator for local professional chamber music organizations. We collaborate with our sister community organizations - currently Ambler Musicivic, Twin Forks Musicivic, Oakmont Musicivic, and Big Sky Musicivic - on our digital programming and platforms; this means we benefit from sharing programming and artistry with other community chamber music organizations, while remaining committed to the vitality of arts experiences in our home community, amplifying the work of local artists, and building a musical community in the Three Village area. Fundraising proceeds directly help to make the Three Village Chamber Players’ programming possible.

Three Village Chamber Players

An ensemble committed to pushing the boundaries of classical/contemporary music

<h2>Artists</h2>Pathos Trio: Felix Reyes – PercussionMarcelina Suchocka – PercussionAlan Hankers – Piano<h2>Performance Times</h2>Premiering Sunday, January 16th at 7pm and available on demand for a week<h2>Program</h2>Full details: https://musicivic.net/mc21-0012Distance Between PlacesAlan Hankers (b.1992)Falling FlamesFinola Merivale (b.1987)Rain Tree Sketch for solo pianoToru Takemitsu (1930-1996)Dance of the DrumsGene Koshinski (b.1980)Prayer Variations (virtual premiere)Alison Yun-Fei Jiang (b.1992)<h2>About the Program</h2>For their program Bridging The World: From the Americas to East Asia, please join Pathos Trio for an exciting virtual evening full of music that celebrates the works of composers from all across the globe from Canada, to Japan, Ireland, all the way back to the United States.Their program starts off with Pathos’ very own Alan Hankers, an American composer whose work Distance Between Places focuses on the relationship between soundscapes of a particular place and memory. As the work unfolds, various layers emerge to the foreground to form distinct rhythmical sections that symbolize the ideas of remembering and reordering. In this way, the title of the work refers to the sounds of somewhere as it exists, and how our memory of that place changes over time.Next comes Irish composer Finola Merivale and her work Falling Flames, whose title comes from the phrase “burning candles at both ends.” The concept of time is structural to the piece, and as the work gradually falls through various registers, the energy changes from fast-paced semiquaver repetitions to slower passages with more space, allowing the music to resonate.Afterwards comes along Japanese contemporary pioneer Toru Takemitsu and his work Rain Tree Sketch for solo piano, which most writers associate the irregular pace and organic texture of this work with Kensaburo Oe’s “The Clever Rain Tree,” a short story written in honor of French music critic and impresario Maurice Fleuret, of whom Takemitsu also dedicated this piece to in celebration of his fiftieth birthday. Among a number of “water-themed” works Toru Takemitsu composed from the late 1970s, this work imagines water in its various states and planes: as droplets falling from the sky, the sea resting below, or rivulets and rivers in their fluid downhill motions.The journey of this program comes back to the Americas as we take part in a high powered performance of American composer Gene Koshinski’s Dance of the Drums, the 2nd movement of a larger piece called “Song and Dance.” Normally this fast-paced work is performed through a single shared set-up, but with particular rendition of the piece, the percussionists of Pathos create their own, unique, remote pre-recorded presentation of this heavy hitting duo!And finally we kick off the ending to this program with Canadian composer Alison Yun-Fei Jiang’s Prayer Variations, a piece that was inspired by visits to cathedral spaces, and is a theme and variations based on a simple, prayer-like melody. Over time, the original prayer melody is varied and transformed. Music unfolds into a sonic experience in motion, journeying through an imaginary, sonorous, and vertical spatial entity.About the Pathos Trio“Elevated themselves into those elite ranks alongside Yarn/Wire, Tigue, So Percussion, Iktus and Ensemble Et Al”, as described by the New York Music Daily, Pathos Trio (percussionists Marcelina Suchocka, Felix Reyes, and pianist/composer Alan Hankers) is an ensemble committed to pushing the boundaries of classical/contemporary music, while also aiming to bring adventurous music to audiences through collaborations with young, living new music composers.Whether it’s performing across the U.S., working on large scale commissions, or creating exciting projects with music organizations across NYC and abroad, Pathos Trio strives to be as collaborative as possible with their initiatives and with the people they work with.Their current project “When Dark Sounds And Classical Music Collide”, the ensemble’s first album, comprises a collection of newly commissioned works written by composers Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Evan Chapman, Alyssa Weinberg, Alan Hankers, and Finola Merivale. This album is set to release in Fall 2021 through Innova Records and is graciously supported by New Music USA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Artist Relief.Most recently Pathos was named an Ensemble Forward grantee by Chamber Music America and is slated to perform several virtual/live concerts starting in March 2021, along with planning their first international tour with Danish chamber choir ENSEMBLE EDGE in Spring 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark. Pathos is expected to resume live performances in Fall 2021/Spring 2022 at New World Center, Stanley Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center, Rittenhouse Soundworks, and will announce in the near future their next slate of 4-5 composers they will be commissioning for their Fall 2021/Spring 2022 season.To learn more about the ensemble and upcoming activities, please be sure to check out their website at www.pathostrio.com

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