Ethea Trio is proud to partner with Brani Piano Art Atelier in bringing chamber music to an arts space in the heart of San Francisco. The three French piano trios on the program were written within a decade of each other, each tracing a different path toward a new French musical identity.
Ravel’s trio (1914) was finished just before he enlisted in World War I. Tailleferre, the only woman of the composer collective Les Six, began hers in 1917 but left it incomplete until 1978. Fauré’s trio (1923) was his penultimate work, distilling a lifetime of refinement.
Fauré, as Paris Conservatory director, helped define a French style distinct from the dominant German tradition. Ravel, his student, expanded that style with Impressionist color, while Tailleferre and Les Six pushed further, favoring a leaner, neoclassical voice. Heard together, these works trace intersecting “lines of escape” from the musical past.
Tickets include small refreshments. Doors open at 7 p.m., concert begins at 8 p.m.