SAN FRANCISCO MUNICH TRIO

Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 2:00pm

The Excelsior German Center invites all members and friends to an afternoon of classical music. The San Francisco-Munich Trio will perform works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alexandre Tansman and Frédéric Chopin, including his last composition, the beautiful Sonata op. 65 for cello & piano. Also on the program are “Pathétique” by Mikhail Glinka, the father of the Russian Romantic and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations on a theme of Handel, whom Beethoven considered “the greatest composer.”

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The concert will be in the Prior Hall or Community Room of the Altenheim.

Enter the gate at 1699 Excelsior Avenue, Oakland, CA (Gate #3).

General Admission is $10

EGC members & Altenheim residents are $5

For more information and to RSVP, please contact
Petra at 925-586-0685 petrakubler@yahoo.com or
Call the EGC office at 510-530-4013.

Street parking only so please plan accordingly.

The San Francisco-Munich Trio are:

Friedrich Edelmann was principal bassoonist with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra from 1977-2004 under Sergiu Celibidache and James Levine.  His solo playing and teaching has taken him to Europe, Japan, USA, South America and China.
Rebecca Rust a cellist who resides in Germany with her husband Friedrich Edelmann, studied under Margaret Rowell and continued studies with Bernard Greenhouse and Mstislav Rostropovich.
Dmitriy Cogan a pianist, began music studies in Moscow at the age of six. He immigrated to the US in 1974 and continued his studies with Vladimir Pleshakov. He won numerous awards at competitions including achieving laureate of the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition. He is a staff accompanist at the SF Conservatory of Music.