The Walsh-Drucker-Cooper Trio

in performance at Baird Auditorium

May 3, 2010, 9:00 pm

The Walsh-Drucker-Cooper Trio
Recorded by WETA Sat., Sept. 26, 2009 at Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Resident Program at the National Museum of Natural History

The Walsh-Drucker-Cooper trio first performed together at the Skaneateles Festival in the Finger Lakes region of New York in August, 2001. Their performance of Dvorak's F-minor trio on the festival's opening night concert was praised as "superb" by the Syracuse Post-Standard's critic. The trio returned to Skaneateles in 2002, 2003 and 2004; they have also appeared on other series including Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, NY, Music Festival of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton, NY, Crested Butte Festival in Crested Butte, CO, Riverrun Chamber Concerts in Waitsfield, VT and Capital City Concerts in Montpelier, VT. Their performances have been broadcast nationally on Performance Today on National Public Radio; on WCNY-FM in Syracuse, WGBH-FM in Boston; and in a live broadcast on WNYC-FM in New York City.

The trio grew out of a musical partnership between Mr. Drucker and Ms. Walsh which began in 1991 at the Bard Music Festival in upstate New York, where they performed together for five successive summers. In recent seasons the duo has given four recitals at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., and has made two recordings: the complete Bartok Sonatas for violin and piano for Biddulph Recordings, and Copland's Two Ballads for Bridge Records.

Diane Walsh, piano
Eugene Drucker, violin
Roberta Cooper, cello

Featured performances:

Mozart: Piano Trio No. 4 in E Major, K. 542
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66