Fresh Wind for Our Sails

The Telos Trio, consisting of flutist Rita George Simmons, clarinetist Debbie Grohman, and pianist Willie La Favor, presents Fresh Wind for Our Sails. The highly-regarded woodwind trio presents music by living composers Miguel del Aguila, Cary Ratcliffe, Alex Shapiro, and Gwyneth Walker.

The Telos Trio commissioned Cary Ratcliff to write Fresh Wind for Our Sails in 2019. The result is a colorful, evocative, engaging composition that delighted the audience at its premiere. The work is inspired by a century of commitments in the faith community of Rochester, New York, to build a community of justice and peace.

A finalist for the 2016 Chamber Music Performance professional division of The American Prize competition, the Telos Trio collaborated with composer Gwyneth Walker in 2017 to perform the world premiere of her “Equality Now!” and joined together with the National Women’s Rights Museum, the Susan B. Anthony House and Museum, and the Hochstein School to present musical celebrations of “Equality Now!” for the centennial of New York State women’s suffrage. Telos Trio’s Midwest tour in 2019 featured concerts and masterclasses in Indiana at DePaul University and in Ohio at Otterbein University. In addition to the universities, concert venues on the tour also included John Knox Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio. The Telos Trio performed at the International Clarinet Society’s ClarinetFest in Nashville, TN in the summer of 2019. Their most recent project was a commissioned work by well-known Rochester composer Cary Ratcliff, which they premiered in the fall of 2019. Telos Trio has worked with photographers of Camera Rochester, renowned storyteller Jay Stetzer, the labyrinth facilitators from the Ontario Center Presbyterian Church and composer Frederick Boyle, whose composition “Glass Labyrinths” was premiered by Telos Trio in 2016. They performed at the 2016 National Flute Association Convention and St. David’s Episcopal Church while on tour in San Diego and as guest artists at Chautauqua Institution. They have also performed by invitation on the concert series of St. George’s Episcopal Church in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia, the Chamber Music Society of Fairmont, West Virginia, Hochstein’s Spotlight on Faculty Concert Series, the Chapel Concerts by Candlelight series at Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, Corning Community College in Corning, the First Presbyterian Church Concert Series in Elmira, NY, the Schuyler County Concert Series in Watkins Glen, NY, the George Eastman House Museum of Photography and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. The musicians of the Telos Trio all teach at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance in Rochester, NY. They have been heard on WXXI 91.5 Classical radio during the broadcast of “Live from Hochstein”, and Telos Trio performances have also been broadcast on WCNY/FM 91.3 in Syracuse, NY. Future projects for the Telos Trio include a recording project. Stay in touch at www.thetelostrio.com and on Facebook for the most up-to-date concert information.

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