Three esteemed soloists join forces to present masterpieces from the horn repertoire.

During the past season, violinist Ani Kavafian visited over 30 cities in performances with the Chamber Music Society, in recitals with her sister, Ida, and with the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio. Newly appointed a full-time professor at Yale University, this season she will also be artist-in-residence at the University of Washington in Seattle. This past summer, she performed at 10 chamber music festivals, including the Virginia Arts Festival, Sarasota, Great Lakes, OK Mozart, Seattle Chamber Music, Chamber Music Northwest, and Music From Angel Fire. Her recent recordings include the complete sonatas for violin and pianoforte by J.S. Bach with Kenneth Cooper and string trios of Mozart and Beethoven with the Europe-based daSalo Trio. A recording of Mozart Sonatas for piano and violin with Jorge Federico Osario was released in the summer of 2006. She has recorded Henri Lazarof's Divertimento for Violin and Strings with the Seattle Symphony and Tod Machover's “Forever and Ever” for Hyper (computerized) Violin and Orchestra with the Boston Modern Orchestra. Ms. Kavafian has performed as soloist with many of America's leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Utah, Pittsburgh, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. She has been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize, has won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, has appeared at the White house on three occasions, and has been featured on network and PBS television programs. Ms. Kavafian plays a 1736 Stradivarius, the Muir McKenzie.

For more than two decades pianist Mihae Lee has been captivating audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts, appearing in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia in Rome, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall. Praised by the Boston Globe, “Mihae Lee's playing was simply dazzling,” she is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Triton Horn Trio. Ms. Lee appears frequently at numerous international festivals, including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Great Woods, Music from Angel Fire, Chestnut Hill Concerts, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Rockport, Sebago-Long Lake, Norfolk, Bard, and Seattle chamber music festivals. In addition to many years of performing regularly at Bargemusic in New York, she has been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Speculum Musicae, has collaborated with the Muir, Cassatt, and Manhattan string quartets, and has premiered works of Gunther Schuller, Paul Lansky, Henri Lazarof, and Michael Daugherty. Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee made her professional debut at the age of 14 with the Korean National Orchestra after becoming the youngest grand prizewinner at the prestigious National Competition held by the President of Korea. In the same year, she came to the United States and subsequently won many further awards including First Prize at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the Juilliard Concerto Competition. Ms. Lee received the bachelor's and master's degrees from The Juilliard School and Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, studying with Martin Canin and Russell Sherman, and has released compact discs on the Bridge, Etcetera, Northeastern, EDI and BCM labels.

A native of Western Pennsylvania, William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career both in the U.S. and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor and educator. A passionate advocate of new music, Mr. Purvis has participated in numerous premieres as hornist and conductor, including horn concerti by Peter Lieberson and Bayan Northcott, trios for violin, horn and piano by Poul Ruders and Paul Lansky, and Steven Stuckey's Sonate en Forme des Préludes with Emanuel Ax as part of his Perspectives Series at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, Orpheus, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Yale Brass Trio and the Triton Horn Trio. A frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has collaborated with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Fine Arts string quartets, and has appeared as solo horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nicholas Harnoncourt. His extensive number of recordings spans an unusually broad range from original instrument performance to standard solo and chamber music repertoire to contemporary solo and chamber music works as well as numerous recordings of contemporary music as conductor. Recent recordings include the Horn Concerto of Peter Lieberson on Bridge (which received a WQXR Gramophone Award), works of Schumann with his wife, pianist Mihae Lee, and soon to be released Etudes and Parodies of Paul Lansky. Mr. Purvis is currently a faculty member of The Yale School of Music where he is also Coordinator of Winds and Brass, The Juilliard School where is Coordinator of the New York Woodwind Quintet Seminar, and SUNY Stony Brook. Mr. Purvis graduated from Haverford College with a BA in Philosophy.

Prize-winners since their teen-age days, these three kindred spirits are excited to unite their distinguished and seasoned performing careers in this new ensemble which grew out of a performance of the Brahms Horn Trio. Formed in 2004, the Triton Trio performs innovative programs of various combinations of solos and duos along with the trios of Brahms, Harbison, Lansky, Ligeti and others. Ms. Kavafian is an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Mr. Purvis is a frequent guest of that ensemble and a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet; and Ms. Lee is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society.