Performance February 15, 2026
Trio 180 (Ann Miller, violin; Vickie Wang, cello. Sonia Leong, piano) is the Piano Trio in-residence at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. These marvelous musicians provide passion and dexterity in their performances, that is deft, splendid playing transporting you wonderfully to both the classical and the new works musical world.
Their joy in new music is reflected in the premier of Eric Wood's Elgin Movements (2022); Robert Coburn’s a depth of silence (2018); Robert Greenberg’s 180 Shift (2013); Reinaldo Moya’s Gothic Sea (2011, in honor of Trio 180’s tenth anniversary); Francois Rose's Gently, Wild Rose Petals (2008); Derek Jacoby's Trio No. 2 (2008); and Allan Crossman's Icarus (2005). The trio was also awarded a Barlow Grant to commission eminent composer Chen Yi’s first piano trio, Tibetan Tunes (Theodore Presser).
Trio 180 has been featured at Chamber Music America's National Conference in New York, as well as the Music Teachers' Association of California's Annual Convention. It has toured to Vancouver, Canada, and Ajijic, Mexico; presented numerous performances for Composers Inc., in San Francisco and Berkeley; and given concerts at Del Valle Fine Arts (Livermore); the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento); the Mondavi Center (Davis); the Sundays Live series (Los Angeles County Museum); Sundays at 3 (Columbia, MD), and Old First Concerts (San Francisco). Recently, the trio was featured on Music for a Great Space's Women in Music Series in Greensboro, NC.
The versality of their programming genius is reflected in the program for this February concert:
Saans (Breath) 2017 by Reena Esmail, Piano Trio (1921) by Rebecca Clarke, Piano Trio No. 1 Op 32 in D Minor by Anton Arensky and Josef Suk’s Elegie, Op 23.
Trio 180 will provide a rich, adventurous and rewarding chamber music concert presented by Stockton’s Friends of Chamber Music. Come enjoy the concert.
Tickets are $30 and are available in the lobby of Faye Spanos Concert Hall at UOP starting at 2:00 pm, 30 minutes before the concert. Students of any age are admitted free.
The audience is invited to participate in a question and answer program with the artists in the concert hall following the concert.
Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with the Pacific Conservatory of Music. For more information about the FOCM annual series, please call 559-786-8587 or visit www.chambermusicfriends.org.