The Buttonwood Trio

By popular demand, ArtsFarmington is bringing  the Buttonwood Trio back to the stage in Farmington on Sunday, March  3rd, at 3:00pm. The performance will be in the Nordica Auditorium,  Merrill Hall, at the University of Maine in Farmington. The trio  consists of Philip Carlsen, cello, Mary Hunter, violin, and James  Parakilas, piano. They will be performing Joaquín Turina’s Piano Trio  No. 2 from 1933, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 from 1944, and  the world premiere of the piano trio version of Carlsen’s “Far Psalteries.” Adult tickets are $20, more if you can, less if you can’t.  Nobody turned away.

Philip Carlsen taught at the University of Maine at Farmington from 1982 to 2015, conducting the UMF Community Orchestra and offering courses in theory, composition, history of jazz, non-Western music and music in film. His compositions have been performed at the Kennedy Center, New York’s Town Hall and Museum of…