Please join us!

... on Saturday, March 19th, from 7:30-9:30 PM at Ruggero Piano for our
annual benefit event. This year we are pleased to have as our special guest

THE ABEGG TRIO

Formed in 1976 in Germany, the Trio received prizes and awards early on — at the international contests in Colmar and Geneva (1977), in Bonn (1979), Bordeaux (1981); the Bernhard Sprengel Prize (Hanover 1986) and the Robert Schumann Prize (Zwickau 1992).

The ensemble has toured throughout 45 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa and has been the guest performers at numerous festivals.

Since 1982 the Abegg Trio has made over 25 recordings on the Tacet label, including the complete cycles of piano trios by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Gade, Schumann, Brahms and Dvorák.

On more than five occasions, recordings of trios by Beethoven, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Smetana, Jánacek, Debussy and Ravel have been awarded the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik."

In addition to a wide range of concert performances, Ulrich Beetz and Gerrit Zitterbart are professors at the Conservatories in Weimar and Hanover respectively, and Birgit Erichson taught chamber music at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar. Together, the Abegg Trio pass their skills on to the younger generation.

In honor of our German artists...

You'll feast on a variety of heavy German hors d'oeuvres, wine and desserts while enjoying the company of the guest musicians and other friends of the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild.

The pièce de résistance will come near the conclusion of the evening with the Abegg's performance of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor, a prelude to their concert of other works the following day at Fletcher Opera Theater.

Details of the Evening...

WHEN: Saturday, March 19, 2005

TIME: 7:30-9:30 pm

WHERE: Ruggero Piano

4720 Hargrove Road, Raleigh

(Off Atlantic Avenue or Capital Boulevard

between Millbrook Rd. and Spring Forest Rd.)

Business Attire

Your Hosts for the Evening

RCMG BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Thomas G. Ward, President

Robert W. Upchurch, Vice-President

Philip Hammond, Secretary

Robert L. Guthrie, Treasurer

Nina S. Allen — Steve Meyers

Tom Anderson — Edward Moon

Henry Bowers — Martha Noyes

Susan Bowers — Doris Powers

Philip Bromberg — Stephen Reynolds

Richard Clark — Douglas Short

Carol Feuer — Terry Thompson

Mark Furth — Bonnie Thron

Margaret Garriss — Susan Timmons

Godfrey Herndon — John Q. Walker

Nancy Lambert, Executive Director

HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE and EVENT PLANNERS

Pat Baldwin, Chair; Henry Bowers, Margaret

Garriss, Nancy Lambert, Martha Noyes,

Robert Upchurch, Tom Ward

Reservations will be held at the door.

__ @ $50 per person __ Sponsorship @ $150

($30 is tax-deductible) Includes 2 reservations

($110 is tax-deductible)

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Raleigh Chamber Music Guild

336 Fayetteville Street Mall

Suite 411

Raleigh, NC 27601

(919) 821-2030 (919) 833-8937 FAX

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