The Smithsonian at Little Washington

The Smithsonian at Little Washington

The Smithsonian Chamber Players will perform two of the great piano trios at the Theatre at Washington, Virginia on Saturday, May 5.

Beethoven’s towering Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, called the “Archduke”, was written in 1811. It was named for the person to whom it was dedicated, Beethoven’s patron, Archduke Rudolf of Austria. Dvorak’s Trio in G Minor, Op. 26 is the other work to be played at this concert. Antonin Dvorak who lived from 1841 to 1904, was bom in Bohemia - a land whose folk melodies are often interwoven in Dvorak’s evocative music.

The Smithsonian Chamber Players who will bring this music to the Theatre’s audience are Canadian pianist Audrey Andrist, violinist James Stem, and cellist Kenneth Slowik. The concert marks the conclusion of the fifteenth season in the Smithsonian at Little Washington concert series.

The artistic director of the Chamber Music Program at the Smithsonian, cellist Kenneth Slowik, is well known to audiences in Little Washington. He is a founding member of the Axelrod Quartet, and the Castle Tno. He has appeared frequently with LArchibudelli, and has been a soloist with numerous orchestras, including the National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra. His extensive discography, spanning composers from Monteverdi to Mahler, includes more than sixty recordings, many of them international prize winners.

Pianist Audrey Andrist is the 1994 first prize winner at the San Antonio International Keyboard Competition. She has appeared as soloist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the Juilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall, and the CBC Vancouver Symphony and, playing chamber music, at New York’s Merkin Hall and Steinway Hall. Violinist James Stem has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, notably at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and at the Marlboro Music Festival.

Tickets for the concert at the Theatre at Washington, Virginia on Saturday, May 5, at 8 pan. are $20 for adults and $5 for students 18 and under.

For reservations, or to obtain a copy of the Theatre’s current schedule, contact the Theatre by phone at (540) 675-1253 or by email to ,or by mail to The Theatre, 291 Gay Street, P.O.Box 322, Washington VA 22747.