Our Next Concert: Neave Trio
October 5, 2025
Faye Spanos Concert Hall, University of the Pacific (directions)
2:30 PM
Remember, students and children always get free admission to FOCM concerts. Be sure to check-in at the student ticket table on concert day.
Since forming in 2010, GRAMMY®–nominated Neave Trio has earned enormous praise for its engaging, cutting-edge performances. New York’s classical music radio station WQXR explains, “‘Neave’ is actually a Gaelic name meaning ‘bright’ and ‘radiant’, both of which certainly apply to this trio’s music making.” Gramophone has praised the trio’s “taut and vivid interpretations,” while The Strad calls out their “eloquent phrasing and deft control of textures,” and BBC Music Magazine describes their performances as balancing “passion with sensitivity and grace.”
Neave has performed at many esteemed concert series and at festivals worldwide, including Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 92nd Street Y, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Music Series (United Kingdom), Zeeuwse Concertzaal (The Netherlands), and the Samoylov and Rimsky Korsakow Museums’ Chamber Music Series in St. Petersburg (Russia). The trio has held residency positions at Brown University, University of Virginia, Longy School of Music of Bard College, San Diego State University as the first-ever Fisch/Axelrod Trio-in-Residence, and the Banff Centre (Canada), among many other institutions.
The Neave Trio’s newest album, La Mer, was released in 2025 on Chandos Records and features French-inspired works including Camille Saint-Saëns’ Trio No. 2, Mel Bonis’ Soir et Matin, and Claude Debussy’s La Mer in a piano trio arrangement by Sally Beamish. The Strad called the performance “beguiling,” noting that “the playing is as idiomatic as it is virtuosic.”
Join us for a wonderful concert!
Scheduled Program
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G minor (1892)
Cécile Chaminade, Piano Trio No. 2 in a Minor, Op. 34 (1887)
~Intermission~
Dora Pejačević, Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 29 (1910)
Read Michael Spencer’s program notes
Learn More
Watch the the Neave Trio’s 2016 performance of Franz Joseph Hadyn’s Rondo all’Ongarese.