Downtown Music Presents: Trio Cava -- Yebin Yoo, Violin; Elena Ariza, cello; Lucas Amory, Piano

Trio Cava presents Haydn Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV:27 and Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor. 

Yebin Yoo has won all major national competitions in Australia, including the Australian Concerto and Vocal Competition and the National Youth Concerto Competition. Most recently, she was named winner of the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, performing the Hindemith Violin Concerto. Since 2024, she has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and will be participating in Marlboro on Tour in 2027. 

Elena Ariza is the 2025-27 season cellist for Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program, a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, and Teaching Assistant for Astrid Schween. She previously received her Artist Diploma at Juilliard and her Bachelor of Arts at Columbia University, majoring in computer science, as part of the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange Program. . She has been featured on Yo-Yo Ma’s Music Art Life project and on NPR’s From the Top.

Lucas Amory holds a Master’s degree from the Juilliard School in Piano Performance and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in Music and German, where he was also awarded the Robert D. Levin and David McCord Prizes. He is the first prize winner of the PianoArts 2024 North American Competition in Milwaukee and the 2022 James Yannatos Harvard Concerto Competition. In 2026 he was featured as a resident artist at L’Atelier Musical in New Baltimore, NY , where he recorded and performed the complete Debussy Etudes in collaboration with Grammy-winning producer Patrick Lo Re.