Trio Cabrillo's Concert to benefit the Coastside Community Orchestra’s music scholarship

This year's fall concert to benefit the Coastside Community Orchestra’s music scholarship program features three local favorites Bruce Yu on violin, Charles Calvert on violoncello, and Robert Shultz on piano -- collectively known as the Trio Cabrillo.

They will be playing favorites from Haydn, Schumann, and Beethoven.   

Program:

Haydn's Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV:27

“These Trios H. 27-29 are the most difficult Haydn ever wrote, and are a formidable musical and intellectual achievement,” musicologist Charles Rosen writes in "The Classical Style". 

Schumann's Piano Trio No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 110

The theme of the trio’s first movement is reminiscent of “The Prophet Bird” (Vogel als Prophet) from his piano pieces, Waldszenen or forest pieces.

Beethoven's Piano Trio in D Major Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost”

 Although Beethoven did not name his piano trio in D the “Ghost”, the name stuck because of the eerie-sounding slow movement, which may have originated in sketches for a Macbeth opera the composer was considering in 1808.

Members of the Trio Cabrillo

BRUCE YU began studying violin at age five, primarily with Mark Zinger and Hillel Kagan. He was principal second violin and assistant concertmaster at the Chicago Youth Symphony under Michael Morgan and was concertmaster with the Stanford Chamber Orchestra. While learning computer systems engineering at Stanford, he studied violin with Susan Freier and soloed with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra as a winner of the Student Soloist Award. He is an active chamber musician and is a regular participant in the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar. He has played with the Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra of Los Altos for several years.

ROBERT SHULTZ had his piano debut recital in San Francisco. At that time the San Francisco Chronicle wrote “He is surely one of the most important of this season’s newcomers, and one of those most likely to be heard from again.” Mr. Shultz, whose piano teacher was Pearl Turner Hoy, appeared with the San Francisco Symphony under Arthur Fiedler and since has played with the Oakland, Fresno and Peninsula symphonies as well as in recitals throughout the Bay Area. Mr. Shultz has been a featured soloist with many orchestras including most recently the Coastside Community Orchestra and has participated in concerts to benefit that orchestra’s student scholarship program. He taught piano at Dominican College in San Rafael for 25 years before retiring.

CHARLES CALVERT is the principal cellist with the Coastside Community Orchestra and with Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra. He was the youngest member of the Sacramento Symphony when he first played with the group next to his teacher, August Heilbron. Subsequently he studied with Colin Hampton in Berkeley and Zara Nelsova at Aspen and then went to Europe to study with Vladimir Orloff at the Vienna Academy of Music. He lived and taught in England for 22 years, during which time he did solo and orchestral work including recitals at Wigmore Hall, Leighton House, and St. Martin in the Fields in London.