The Claremont Trio will appear in concert at the Mary Granai Corrigan Auditorium at Northfield Middle-High School on Friday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m.

The concert, featuring piano trios by Beethoven, Fauré and Mendelssohn, is co-sponsored by the Paine Mountain Arts Council, the Emily Dean Morse Library and the Northfield Schools with generous grants from the Seaver Fund and an anonymous donor.

Admission is $12 at the door. For information call Northfield High School at 485-4500, or Lars Nielsen at 485-8910.

The Claremont Trio, based in New York, won the first Kalichstein Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and was the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Consistently lauded for their "aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance," (Palm Beach Daily News), the Trio has appeared in recent seasons at such venues as Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York's Lincoln Center; Carnegie Hall; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts; Wolf Trap; and major venues in Boston, Seattle, Phoenix, Anchorage, Syracuse, Columbus and Puerto Rico.

They also appear frequently as featured guests at many chamber music societies and festivals both in the U.S. and abroad.

Their debut CD of Mendelssohn trios was released on Arabesque label in 2004 to overwhelming critical acclaim. Gramophone magazine praised the disc for giving "large-scale performances with a sweeping, romantic sense of space and strong dramatic contrasts." Their second disc of Shostakovich and Arensky trios was released on Tria Records in 2006, and two CD's were released in 2009 spanning music from Beethoven to Mason Bates. The second 2009 CD, which includes works by Beethoven, Brahms and Dohnanyi, garnered a glowing review in Fanfare magazine and received a Critic's CHOICE award from BBC Magazine.

In keeping with the Claremont Trio's belief that education on all levels is essential to the future of classical music, they are extensively involved in teaching the next generation of musicians and music lovers, regularly conducting educational outreach activities and master classes at prestigious music schools and universities as well as high schools. They will spend the afternoon of September 25 at Northfield Middle-High School, culminating in a concert for the entire school.

Twin sisters Emily Bruskin (violin) and Julia Bruskin (cello) formed the Trio with pianist Donna Kwong in 1999 at the Juilliard School. The Claremonts are based in New York City near their namesake: Claremont Avenue. Of interest to local residents, the Bruskins are granddaughters of Sidney and Emily Morse, longtime residents of Northfield. Emily Morse was the first librarian at the new Northfield High School library, which is a co-sponsor of this program.