Tannery Pond Center presents our Summer Concert Series: 5 Points Trio, Classical
July 11 | 7:30 PM
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 Day of Concert, FREE for Youth 18 and younger but reservations are required.
For advance price tickets, please visit the TPC box office, or call (518) 251-2505, or purchase online thru Eventbrite. We have limited tickets available for "Day of Event" which will be sold on a first come first serve basis. We will also begin a wait list of names at the event window for tickets not picked-up. Tickets not picked up by 7:30 PM will be issued to wait list customers.
The 5 Points Trio has played together since the spring of 2022, and they have experience performing music of varied genres, from classical masterpieces to lighter fare of both classical and popular styles. The trio’s members have given concerts at great venues from all over the globe including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Japan’s Izumi Hall, and the Kennedy Center. They have also had the opportunity to collaborate with such ensembles and performers as Jesse Norman, Marilyn Horne, Ann-Marie McDermott, and the Miro String Quartet.
The Trio’s program will include a piano trio of Schumann as well as an assortment of light and entertaining shorter pieces of a variety of genres.
The 5 Points Trio is excited to perform at Tannery Pond Center.
Amanda Brin, a native of Rochester, New York, is a founding member and first violinist of the Hyperion String Quartet. Her playing has been praised for its “lusciousness and great pathos” by Classical Voice of North Carolina and as a member of the quartet, she won first prizes at the Coleman, Music Teachers National Association and Green Lake chamber music competitions, and was the bronze medal prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Hailed by The Strad magazine for their “uncommonly high level of homogeneity and confidence”, the Quartet has held residencies at San Diego State University in collaboration with the La Jolla Music Society, the Western Piedmont Symphony in North Carolina, the Empire State Youth Orchestra in Albany, New York and the Sembrich Opera Museum in Bolton Landing, New York.
She has performed as soloist with the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra in New York and has also appeared at festivals including the Strings in the Mountains Festival, Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and SummerFest La Jolla. Amanda has collaborated with renowned artists including Anthea Kreston, Eugenia Zukerman, Anne-Marie McDermott, Stephen Taylor, Stewart Rose, Jennifer Frautschi, Benny Kim, Toby Appel, Sophie Shao, Melvin Chen, Raman Ramakrishnan and the Miró and Rossetti string quartets. She currently spends her summers performing as Assistant Concertmaster of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta in New York.
Dedicated to teaching, Amanda has served on the faculty at the Hartt School Community Division, Montana Chamber Music Workshop, Connecticut College, SUNY Adirondack and Skidmore College, and currently teaches at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.
Amanda holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Kent State University. Her principal violin teachers include Ilya Kaler, Timothy Ying, Sandy Yamamoto, Ivan Chan and Cathy Meng Robinson and she studied viola with Chauncey Patterson. Other mentors include Virginia Wensel, Betty Haag and David Updegraff. She also studied chamber music with members of the Ying, Miró, Miami, Juilliard and Emerson quartets. She currently performs on a J.B. Ceruti violin on generous loan.
She is married to cellist, Jonathan Brin, and they have three children, Annabelle, Elliott and Oliver.
Jonathan Brin is the founding cellist of the Hyperion String Quartet. As a member of the Quartet, he won first prizes at the Coleman, Music Teachers National Association and Green Lake chamber music competitions, and was the bronze medal prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Praised by The Strad magazine for their “uncommonly high level of homogeneity and confidence”, the Quartet has held residencies at San Diego State University in collaboration with the La Jolla Music Society, the Western Piedmont Symphony in North Carolina, the Empire State Youth Orchestra in Albany, New York and the Sembrich Opera Museum in Bolton Landing, New York.
As a soloist, he was awarded the first place Arden J. Yockey Scholarship for Strings in the Tuesday Musical’s 2003 Competition in Akron, Ohio. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Onondaga Civic Orchestra, the Syracuse University Summer Festival Orchestra and the Kent State University Orchestra. As a sought after chamber musician, he has performed at festivals including Penderecki QuartetFest, La Jolla Chamber Music Society’s SummerFest, Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and Strings in the Mountains Festival. Jonathan has collaborated with renowned artists including Anthea Kreston, Eugenia Zukerman, Stephen Taylor, Stewart Rose, Jennifer Frautschi, Benny Kim, Toby Appel, Sophie Shao, Melvin Chen, Raman Ramakrishnan and the Miró, Penderecki and Rossetti string quartets. He has also served as guest cellist with the Miró Quartet.
Jonathan is currently a member of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Lake Placid Sinfonietta. He was previously principal cello of the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra and has been guest principal cello with Orchestra New England and Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. He also performs regularly with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syracuse Orchestra.
As an educator, Jonathan has served on the faculty at the NSOA-ASTA Conference at SUNY Fredonia, the Hartt School Community Division, Montana Chamber Music Workshop, Connecticut College, SUNY Adirondack, Lake George Chamber Music Workshop and the College of Saint Rose. He is currently on faculty at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Jonathan completed his undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music with high honors and earned his Master of Music degree from Kent State University as a teaching assistant to the Miró and Miami string quartets. His principal violin teachers were Einar Holm, Steven Doane, Joshua Gindele and Keith Robinson. Other mentors include William Stokking, Rosemary Elliott and Kathleen Kemp. He has performed in masterclasses with Ronald Leonard, Stephen Geber and Matt Haimovitz. He also studied chamber music with members of the Ying, Miró, Miami, Juilliard and Emerson quartets.
Jonathan lives in Saratoga Springs with his wife, violinist Amanda Brin and their three children Annabelle, Elliott and Oliver.
As a pianist, Dan Saunders has performed in concert throughout the world with many leading singers and instrumentalists including Jessye Norman, Kiri TeKanawa, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos, Marilyn Horne, Dimitri Horostovsky, and Thomas Allen; more recently with Sonya Yoncheva, Susanna Phillips, Latonia Moore, Isobel Leonard, Jamie Barton, Nathan Gunn, Gerald Finley and Luca Pisaroni, as well as violinists Eugene Fodor and Jennifer Gilbert.
Dan performed with Jessye Norman at the White House, Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, San Francisco Opera, and Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and with Marilyn Horne at Paris’ Bastille. Mr. Saunders has also been featured on national television with Ms. Norman, Dimitri Horostovsky and Gary Lakes. A frequent guest on WQXR’s Listening Room, he has performed with such artists as Danielle De Niese, Lisette Oropesa, and Luca Pisaroni. New York Times live streams have included appearances with Angel Blue, Angela Meade and Golda Schultz. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Paris Bastille and Salle Gaveau, London’s Wigmore Hall and on the South Bank. Festivals include the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Salzburg, Tanglewood, Ravinia and Caramoor Festivals, as well as Japan’s Matsumoto Festival. Recordings include Kathleen Battle, Soprano on SONY Video, Estrellita with violinist Tomoko Kato on the Denon Label and with violinist Eugene Fodor on Newport Classics.
During his tenure at the Met, Dan has also been heard as harpsichordist on Metropolitan Broadcasts for productions including Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito. For seven summers, Saunders has served as pianist for the Met’s Summer in the Parks series in Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park. He also has collaborated with the Lindemann Young Artists for their summer concert series throughout the city.
He studied piano at Wheaton College, continuing with Carl Friedberg protégé William Browning at the American Conservatory in Chicago. Subsequently, he spent four years of study with Pianist Geoffrey Parsons in London.