Posted by Randi Bjornstad
They started as musicians, and friends, and after that, what could be more logical than to play together as an official ensemble?
That’s exactly what has happened for cellist Eric Alterman, pianist Asya Gulua, and violinist Nelly Kovalev. For years, they’ve come together at concerts throughout Oregon, including in their various “home towns” of Eugene, Salem, and Portland.
The program for their debut concert features Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ghost” trio, followed by Piano Trio, a more modern composition by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Polish-Jewish person who fled the Holocaust and settled in the USSR, where he became a friend and colleague of Dmitri Shostakovich.
(Trio Picea doesn’t explain the name of their new group, but picea derives from several Greek words, and refers to rosin, a tar-like substance obtained by tapping tree trunks and essential to apply to the bows of stringed instruments to create needed friction between the bow and strings in order to produce musical sound. In Latin, picea is a reference to the spruce tree.)
Trio Picea’s musical debut
When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Where: First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1390 Pearl St., Eugene
Tickets: $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $10 for students; available online at ericaltermancello.com/picea
