NORTH COAST, Calif. – Trio Céleste, known as one of the most dynamic chamber music ensembles in the country, will perform on the FBCA Coast Chamber Concerts series on Sunday, Jan. 24, at 3 p.m. in Preston Hall, Mendocino. 

This trio with a "magic spark” (Philip Setzer, Emerson Quartet), was recently invited to perform a recital in Carnegie Hall next season.

The players, – pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks, violinist Iryna Krechkovsky and cellist Ross Gasworth – are all strong prize-winning instrumentalists in their own right.

One happy critic with the Orange County Register reported: “Krechkovsky, who performs on a Stradivarius, is a precise yet spirited musician; cellist Gasworth is a warm and generous one. Loucks, who played with the piano lid fully open, never overpowered them, while uncovering many shades and dynamics in the music at hand, sculpting phrases intelligently with passion, energy and technical mastery.”

Trio Céleste, cited by the  Long Beach Gazette as “exuberant and technically dazzling,” is based in Orange County as the ensemble in residence at the Claire Trevor School of Arts at UC Irvine.

The performance in Mendocino includes selections from “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” by Piazzolla and Tchaikovsky’s elegiac piano trio subtitled, “In Memory of a Great Artist,” written upon the death of Tchaikovsky’s close friend and mentor, Nikolai Rubenstein.

Advance tickets for $20 are available until Jan. 22 at Harvest Market and Out of This World. Tickets at the door are $25.

For more information call 707-937-1018.