Three esteemed soloists who are long-time colleagues and friends, the Triton Horn Trio formed in 2004 to present masterpieces from the horn repertoire. Prize-winners since their teen-age days, these three kindred spirits are excited to unite their distinguished and seasoned performing careers in this new ensemble which grew out of a performance of the Brahms Horn Trio. The Triton Horn Trio performs innovative programs of various combinations of solos and duos along with the trios of Brahms, Harbison, Lansky, Ligeti and others. Ms. Kavafian is an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Mr. Purvis is a frequent guest of that ensemble and a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet; and Ms. Lee is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society.

During the past season, violinist Ani Kavafian visited over 30 cities in performances with the Chamber Music Society, in recitals with her sister, Ida, and with the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio. Newly appointed a full-time professor at Yale University, this season she will also be artist-in-residence at the University of Washington in Seattle. She regularly performs at many chamber music festivals, including Chamber Music Northwest, the Virginia Arts Festival, Sarasota, Great Lakes, OK Mozart, and Music from Angel Fire. Her recent recordings include the complete sonatas for violin and pianoforte by J.S. Bach with Kenneth Cooper, string trios of Mozart and Beethoven with the Europe-based daSalo Trio, and the Mozart sonatas for piano and violin. Ms. Kavafian has performed as soloist with many of America’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. She is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and she has appeared at the White House on three occasions. Ms. Kavafian plays a 1736 Stradivarius, the Muir McKenzie.

For more than two decades pianist Mihae Lee has been active as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe and Asia, appearing in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Berlin Philharmonie, and Taipei National Hall. An artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society as well as the Triton Horn Trio, Ms. Lee appears frequently at numerous international festivals, including those in Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Music from Angel Fire, Chestnut Hill Concerts, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Rockport, Norfolk, Bard, and Seattle chamber music festivals. She has been a guest artist with Bargemusic, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Speculum Musicae in New York. Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee made her professional debut at the age of 14 with the Korean National Orchestra, moved to the U.S. the same year, and won First Prize at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the Juilliard Concerto Competition. Ms. Lee received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, and the Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory. She can be heard on compact discs on the Bridge, Etcetera, Northeastern, EDI and BCM labels.

William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career in the U.S. and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor and educator. A passionate advocate of new music, Mr. Purvis has participated in numerous premieres as hornist and conductor, including Steven Stuckey’s Sonate en Forme des Preludes with Emanuel Ax as part of Mr. Ax’s Perspectives Series at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, Orpheus, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Yale Brass Trio, as well as the Triton Horn Trio. A frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest, he has collaborated with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Orion and Brentano string quartets, and has appeared as solo horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nicholas Harnoncourt. His recent recordings include the Horn Concerto of Peter Lieberson on Bridge (which received a WQXR Gramophone Award), and works of Schumann with his wife, pianist Mihae Lee. Mr. Purvis is currently a faculty member of the Yale School of Music, the Juilliard School, and SUNY Stony Brook. Mr. Purvis graduated from Haverford College with a B.A. in Philosophy.

Ani Kavafian has performed at Chamber Music Northwest for 18 years, and William Purvis for 10 years. This is Mihae Lee’s first appearance at CMNW.