barbara poeschl-edrich - chamber music

Trio Mosaic

Whitney Pencina, flute
Mark Berger, viola/violin
Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, harp

The colorful combination of the flute, viola and harp creates an intriguing source for creative work. The trio can easily be transformed into a duo, or enlarged by adding one or more instruments or voices. Like a mosaic, which consists of more or less individual components, the ensemble retains its complete character.

Both mosaics and the harp date back to an ancient tradition, undergoing development and changes throughout thousands of years. Trio Mosaic enjoys performing works from the Baroque period to the famous repertoire of the French Impressionism, such as Debussy's Trio Sonata, as well as Contemporary music. In order to enrich the existing repertoire, Trio Mosaic always welcomes new compositions.

Biographies:

As an active freelance musician in the Boston area, Whitney Pencina, flute performs regularly with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and as a substitute/extra player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the ALEA III New Music Ensemble, and the Hingham Symphony. Whitney was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 2002, and has been a soloist with the Southwest Virginia Chamber Orchestra (upcoming performance in March, 2006) and the Longy Chamber Orchestra.

Whitney was awarded a Performer’s Certificate from the Indiana University School of Music, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2000. In addition, she received a Master of Music degree from the Boston Univeristy College of Fine Arts in 2002 and an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music in 2004. Her teachers include Marianne Gedigian, Thomas Robertello, Robert Willoughby, and James Copland Scott.

Mark Berger, viola/violin, attended Boston University where he completed his undergraduate studies in violin with Roman Totenberg and viola with Steven Ansell. Mr. Berger has performed in summer festivals such as the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center. Mr. Berger is a highly active violist and violinist in the Boston area and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Lyric Opera, ALEA III Contemporary Music Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, as well as the New World, Vermont and Albany Symphonies. Mr. Berger received his master’s degree in composition from Boston University where he studied with Lukas Foss and Theodore Antoniou. Mr. Berger’s compositions have been heard internationally in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, San Jose, Costa Rica, and Athens, Greece. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Lydian String Quartet, ALEA III, the Harvard Group for Contemporary Music, New Music Brandeis, Studio New Music (in residence at the Moscow Conservatory), and the Hellenic Ensemble of Contemporary Music. Mr. Berger is a member of the music faculty at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, MA, and is currently a PhD candidate at Brandeis University where he studies composition with David Rakowski and Martin Boykan, and acts as director of the New Music Brandeis concert series.

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Lexington Symphony Chamber Players

Barbara is the principal harpist of the Lexington Symphony. In 2005 she has played a series of concerts with the Lexington Symphony Chamber Players, performing Ravel's Introduction et Allegro, Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp with string quartet, Debussy's Trio Sonata and duos for flute and harp by Dana Hicks and Rochester Young. The ensemble included flutist Danielle Boudrot and violinist Elizabeth Whitfield. www.lexingtonsymphony.org

Music at Eden’s Edge

Since 2004, Barbara performs with Music at Eden’s Edge, the Chamber Music Series on Boston’s North Shore. Barbara has been invited to play both in the summer concert series as well as for the youth concerts at Elementary and Middle schools.

“Each year, music lovers on the North Shore have a feast of musical treats from which to choose. For a quarter of a century, Music at Eden’s Edge (MEE), the region’s resident chamber music ensemble, has been a main course in that banquet. Founded in 1982, MEE has come to represent the highest standards of musical performance artistry.” www.edensedge.org

La Donna MusicaleBoston’s unique ensemble, La Donna Musicale, is dedicated to the performance of music by women composers from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods in a historically informed manner, as well as to the performance of women’s contemporary music. The newly released CD “The Pleasures of Love and Libation” Airs by Julie Pinel and other Parisian women” includes harp solo as well as harp accompaniment repertoire. www.ladm.org

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