“The Piano Trio in Contrast”

The South Beach Chamber Ensemble presents “The Piano Trio in Contrast,” a program of three works spanning Russian Romanticism and 20th- and 21st-century American music.

The concert opens with Anton Arensky’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32. Composed in 1894 in memory of cellist Karl Davydov, it is among the Russian composer’s best-known chamber works. Arensky, who lived from 1861 to 1906, was a composer, pianist, and professor of music who had written songs and piano pieces by the age of nine.

The program continues with “be still and know,” composed in 2015 by Carlos Simon, a contemporary American composer whose work frequently engages African American history and culture. It concludes with William Grant Still’s “Three Visions,” a 1936 piano suite arranged for piano trio by the ensemble’s pianist, Michael Linville. Its three movements, “Dark Horsemen,” “Summerland,” and “Radiant Pinnacle,” tell the story of the human soul after death.

A Champagne toast follows the concert. Students and museum members with ID are admitted free.