Meet the Nova Linea Musica Piano Trio

The Nova Linea Musica Piano Trio was formed to do what piano trios have always done, and one thing they rarely do: play the cornerstones of the repertoire and give first performances of music written for them.

On April 14 at Guarneri Hall, the trio presents My Eternal Memories, with the world premiere of Into the Wild by Nova Linea Musica Composer-in-Residence Stacy Garrop, who will be in the room to hear it. The piece is a set of five miniatures, each a portrait of wildlife that lives in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park: a pika gathering grasses and sounding the alarm, a marmot stretched out in the sun, a gray wolf pack on the hunt, a bighorn sheep picking its way up a cliff, and elk grazing in a high meadow. On June 4, they close the season with the 2027 Score Call Winner Concert, setting Beethoven and Brahms beside three more premieres by the winners of Nova Linea Musica’s national Score Call, directed by composer Clarice Assad.

Rabia, Ashley, and Tamila are Nova Linea Musica’s Artists-in-Residence this season. Ashley joined the trio this fall, succeeding cellist Haddon Kay, who continues to perform with Rabia on the Artists-in-Residence series. For this year, Rabia has set the group to work on three pillars of the repertoire, so that these works sit beside the music being written for the ensemble now.