Buttonwood Trio

ArtsFarmington is pleased to present a Benefit Concert by the newly formed Buttonwood Trio playing works by Faure and Babajanian.  Admission is by donation, with all proceeds going to Ukrainian humanitarian relief. The concert will be August 7th, at 3:00 in the Emery Community Arts Center at UMF, Farmington Maine.

This will be a debut concert for the Buttonwood Trio which was formed by a group of three old friends and former Maine college music professors.   They have joined together in retirement to launch a this new ensemble. The players are violinist Mary Hunter, who served as music department chair at Bowdoin College, her pianist husband James Parakilas, who held a similar position at Bates College, and cellist Philip Carlsen, who taught music and conducted the orchestra at UMF.  Their program will last less than an hour, and features two works: the 1923 Trio in D minor by Gabriel Fauré,…