This program presents full-hearted Spanish trios in the Romantic tradition: Joaquín Turina’s colourful and richly textured Piano Trio in B minor, Op.76; Enrique Granados’ evocative Piano Trio in C major, Op.50; along with Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons in Buenos Aires – an immersion into the sensual world of the tango! A few Spanish Dances, Op.12 by Moritz Moszkowski, round out a rousing program.
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About the performers
Monica Pfau, piano
An accomplished soloist and chamber musician, pianist Monica Pfau has performed on a variety of stages across North America and Europe. Many of her performances have been featured on CBC Radio’s “Westcoast Performance” and she has recorded with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra under Mario Bernardi, the National Film Board of Canada, and for Australian cinema. A student of Robin Wood, early honours included the Victoria Medal (UVic), the ARCT Performer’s Gold Medal, BC Cultural Fund awards, and a scholarship to the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Appointed Accompanist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre, she performed with internationally renowned artists such as Janos Starker and the Fine Arts Quartet (USA). Following a master’s degree in performance at UBC, she accepted a Doctoral Fellowship and also became a faculty member of the VSO School of Music. After winning First Prize in the UBC Concerto Competition, she made her orchestral debut under Maestro Kazuyoshi Akiyama; Monica is currently working as a collaborative pianist at the University of Victoria.
Ben Goheen, cello
Ben holds his master’s degree in Cello Performance from the University of British Columbia. Since his move from Ontario, he has enjoyed performing with several symphonies and ensembles, including Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, and Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra. He is also an active chamber musician and loves performing with a variety of smaller chamber ensembles throughout the Lower Mainland, including the Somerset Trio and Rose Gellert String Quartet (Langley Community Music School’s quartet-in-residence). In addition to performing, Ben is also the conductor of Surrey Symphony Society’s Symphonic Strings and enjoys a full schedule of cello students throughout the week. If he had to choose a second passion for life, his answer would be quick and easy: beach volleyball.
Ben has performed with West Coast Chamber Music since 2023.
Angela Cavadas, violin
Angela was the recipient of numerous awards early in her musical life, most notably the First Prize in the CBC Young Artists Competition at the age of nineteen. Renowned violinists Steven Staryk and Ruggiero Ricci were major mentors in her early training. Over the course of her distinguished and varied career, she has collaborated with many outstanding instrumentalists and conductors and has participated in hundreds of concerts, of which a number were broadcast nationally.
Angela is Associate Concertmaster of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and has performed extensively as a soloist and in chamber music concerts, in particular with West Coast Chamber Music since 1995. She has also enjoyed the diversity of playing for ballet, musical theatre, recording, and folk-dance troupes.
Always interested in passing on knowledge, she teaches violin and piano privately and for the Arts Conservatory in Richmond, BC.