Rita D'Arcangelo
On the international flute scene, Rita D'Arcangelo is celebrated not only for her impressive virtuosity, but especially for her unmistakably floating tone and her multi-faceted timbres.
She studied with distinction in Pescara, Manchester, Milan and Mannheim and was sponsored by Sir James Galway - he attested to her “beautiful tone and remarkable technique”.
Her debut at the world-famous Carnegie Hall (2011) marked the beginning of an international solo career with performances in Japan, Europe and the USA as well as CD awards such as the Award of Excellence from the Global Music Awards.
She is also a sought-after flute professor, teaches at the BTU Cottbus University of Applied Sciences and the Akademie für Musik Berlin, among others, and regularly gives masterclasses on several continents.
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Miki Nagahara
Miki Nagahara was born in Andover/USA and studied violin with Prof. Thomas Klug in Bremen and with Prof. Almita Vamos and Shmuel Ashkenasi at Northwestern University in Illinois.
She has performed at the Tanglewood Music Center and the PODIUM Festival Esslingen and has given concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Symphony Hall Boston and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. With her ensemble she won first prize at the WDAV Chamber Music Competition in North Carolina and at the Dover Quartet Competition at Northwestern University.
She gained orchestral experience in the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen; today she is a musician and board member of the chamber orchestra ensemble reflektor.
Mari Nagahara
Mari Nagahara studied cello with Paul Katz, Gabriel Schwabe and Natasha Brofsky, among others, and is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
She has been invited to important chamber music festivals such as Ravinia, the Perlman Music Program, Norfolk, Taos and Kneisel Hall and is a regular solo artist at the PODIUM Festival Esslingen.
With Trio Rai, she won a bronze medal at the Fischoff Competition; as a founding member of Trio Midas, she was sponsored by the Carl Dörken Foundation.
In the 2022/23 season she was a member of the Académie de l'Orchestre de Paris; since 2025/26 she has been a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA).
Feb. 03, 2026 - 7:30pm
(doors open 6:45pm)
Chamber trio flute - violin - cello
Rita D'Arcangelo (flute)
Miki Nagahara (violin)
Mari Nagahara (cello)
program:
Josef Haydn: "London Trios" 1-4 (Hob.IV: 1-4)
The three so-called London Trios were probably composed during Haydn's second trip to England in 1794 and are among his most elegant occasional chamber music works. In the unusual instrumentation of flute, violin and cello (originally 2 flutes and cello), they combine courtly lightness with the melodic clarity that made Haydn so popular in London. Together, the three pieces unfold a cheerful, chamber music tableau that captures the spirit of a convivial London salon around 1800.
W.A.Mozart: Divertimenti KV 439b
Mozart wrote these divertimenti for his friend Anton Stadler (for whom he had also composed the famous Clarinet Concerto), originally for 3 basset horns. Mozart's publishers published a version for flute and 2 string instruments in 1804.
With their playful elegance, the divertimenti unfold a cheerful, almost chamber-musical salon panorama of late Baroque and early Classical Vienna.
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Josef Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major op.33 no.2
(arrangement for trio) - 4th movement Finale.Presto ("The joke")