LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Clarinet Trios

Inon Barnatan - Piano
Alisa Weilerstein - Cello
Anthony McGill - Clarinet

 Beethoven - Trio in B-flat major for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 11 (1797)

Hallman - Short Stories for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (CMS Co-Commission) (New York premier( (2016)
Brahms - Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 114 (1891)

"There may be no more gifted a clarinetist in New York than the Philharmonic’s Anthony McGill....Two formidable young virtuosos, the cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the pianist Inon Barnatan, complete the ensemble.

       The New Yorker

Anthony McGill and Alisa Weilerstein, who joined CMS from 2000 to 2004, have since ascended to the world’s most distinguished stages.

Anthony, whose flute-playing brother Demarre also came through the program, leapt with unstoppable momentum from the Cincinnati Symphony to the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and recently to the first clarinet chair of the New York Philharmonic, placing him among a handful of the top players of his instrument.

Alisa is now one of the most in-demand cello soloists with an already full coffer of singular accomplishments and honors.

And Inon, who joined the greatly-expanded CMS Two program in 2006, most recently became a local household name as the first Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic, while juggling a multinational career. 

Each of these three artists exemplifies the new ideal of the complete musician: a consummate technician, a charismatic performer, an intelligent interpreter, and most relevant to us, an expert and sensitive chamber music player whose passion and curiosity knows no bounds.