upcoming performances

Please check the Trio Nova Mundi website for the most up-to-date performance schedule
2017
Northwest Tour February 24-March 5, 2017
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​​
TOUR PROGRAM
     Soir-Matin by Mel Bonis
     Voces de mi Tierra by Elisenda Fabregas
     New World Dances by Gwyneth Walker
​     Piano Trio, Op. 11 by Fanny Mendelssohn
Friday, February 24, 2017
7:30 p.m.​
Recital Hall
Classic Pianos
3003 SE Milwaukie Ave
Portland, OR 97202
Tickets at the door: $20 ($10 student)
Saturday, February 25, 2017
2:30 pm
Music on the Hill
Olympia, WA
$15 adults/$5 students
Limited seating.  To RSVP and get directions, contact Jan at: 360-456-1911 or email 
jrpianomusic@gmail.com​
Dessert and coffee following the performance
Sunday, February, 26, 2017
​4:00 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem, OR
5090 Center Street NE
​Salem, OR 97317
​Tickets at the door: $12 ($8 student)
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Masterclasses
​Greenleaf-Seitz Music Studio
Keizer, OR
Times TBA
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
7:30 p.m.
​Walla Walla University
Melvin K. West Fine Arts Center
College Place, WA
Free and open to the public (donations accepted)
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
11:30 am
SFCC Music Auditorium
Spokane Falls Community College
3410 W Fort George Wright Dr, Spokane, WA 99224

Possible evening concert in Spokane
Details TBA
Friday, March 3, 2017
​7:30 p.m.
University of Washington Fine Arts Building
Brechemin Auditorium
Seattle, WA
​Free with UW Student ID
Saturday, March 4, 2017
2pm
Green Lake Church
6350 East Green Lake Way N
Seattle, WA 98103
Suggested donation: $20
Sunday, March 5, 2017
3pm
First Congregational Church of Bellingham
2401 Cornwall Ave
​Bellingham, WA 98225
Tickets at the door: $20 ($10 student)
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​​​
CAPA 6-12 Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School
Masterclasses and recital
Pittsburgh, PA
Works by Mel Bonis, Elisenda Fabregas, Gwyneth Walker, and Fanny Mendelssohn.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​​​
12 noon
Music at Noon, Logan Series
Penn State Behrend
McGarvey Commons
Erie, PA
Cafe Music by Paul Schoenfeld
New World Dances by Gwyneth Walker
Suite Huasteca by Juan Ramirez
Friday, March 24, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.*
    AND
Sunday, March 26 at 2:30 p.m.*
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​​​
House concert - Home of Becky Billock & Jonathan Aldrich 
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Tickets at the door: $30 ($10 student)
Works by Mel Bonis, Elisenda Fabregas, Gwyneth Walker & Fanny Mendelssohn
Limited seating--be sure to RSVP early
Email trionovamundi@gmail.com for location details and to RSVP
*Two performances---same great program.  Pick one, or come twice!
​
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​​​
Music on the Hill, Chamber Music Festival
St. Gregory the Great 
360 Cowesett Rd, Warwick, RI 02886
Warwick, RI
​      Soir-Matin by Mel Bonis
     Voces de mi Tierra by Elisenda Fabregas
     New World Dances by Gwyneth Walker
​     Piano Trio, Op. 11 by Fanny Mendelssohn

recent performances

2016

Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​​
WSO on the Go
Strand Theatre
911 Fifth Street
Moundsville, WV
Works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Juan Ramirez, Fanny Mendelssohn, Paul Schoenfeld, and selected tangos.
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​
WSO on the Go
A Gala benefiting programs of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra
Private event
Wheeling, WV
Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Franz Joseph Haydn, Mel Bonis, Karina Glasinovic, Paul Schoenfeld, Fanny Mendelssohn, and selected tangos.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​​
"Friday Night Live!"
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
Works by Elisenda Fabregas, Franz Joseph Haydn, Juan Ramirez, and selected tangos by Antonio Gardel and others
Monday, September 26, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi ​​​
Grove City College, Faculty Recital
Arnold Recital Hall
Grove City, PA
Works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Mel Bonis, Juan Ramirez, and Karina Glasinovic
Friday, September 23, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi ​​
House concert
Pittsburgh, PA 
Works by Joseph Haydn, Mel Bonis. Karina Glasinovic, and selected Argentinian Tangos
Friday, September 9, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi ​
All Seasons of West Bloomfield
West Bloomfield Township, MI 
Works by Joseph Haydn, Elisenda Fabregas, Juan Ramirez
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi ​
Kerrytown Concert House
Ann Arbor, MI
​Works by Joseph Haydn, Elisenda Fabregas, Juan Ramirez
Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival   June 13-25
With Trio Nova Mundi
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Artistic Encounter with Escher Quartet
Temple Beth El
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
St. Matthews & St. Joseph
Detroit, MI
Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Paul Schoenfield, and Jose White
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Artistic Encounter with Paul Watkins
Temple Beth El
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Works by Paul Shoenfield
Friday, June 17, 2016
"Musical Chairs", collaborations with members of Altius Quartet, Friction Quartet, Trio Honore, and Philip Setzer
Kirk in the Hills
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Works by Schumann, Weber, Shostakovich, & Mendelssohn
Friday, June 17, 2016
"Audio-Visual," a British Folk song transcribed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
interpreted by folk, classical, jazz, and electronic musicians.
Wasserman Projects
Detroit, MI
Trio pianist Becky Billock performs with Paul Watkins, cello
Works by Vaughan Williams
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Artistic Encounter with Ian Brown
Temple Beth El
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Works by Beethoven
Friday, June 24, 2016
"Friday Night Live"
Detroit Institute of Arts
Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
     Saturday, June 25, 2016
       8pm
       Closing Night, Chamber orchestra with soloists Alessio Bax, piano; Adrian Brendel, cello; David Buck, flute.
      Directed by Paul Watkins
       Seligman Performing Arts Center
       Beverly Hills, MI
       Trio members collaborate with members of Altius Quartet, Friction Quartet, & Trio Honore
       Works by Britten, Mozart, Huw Watkins, Arnold, & Holst
Music on the Hill, June 1-11, 2016
Chamber music festival in Rhode Island
Trio Nova Mundi
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Immaculate Conception Church
​Cranston, RI
Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Paul Schoenfield
Thursday, June 9, 2016
St Rose & Clement
Warwick, RI
Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, and Juan Ramirez
Friday, June 10, 2016
St. Gregory the Great 
Warwick, RI
Works by Manuel M. Ponce
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Artful Wednesdays on Pitt Campus
Trio Nova Mundi ​
Nordy's Place, William Pitt Union Lower Level
Monday, February 8, 2016
The Legacy of Harry T. Burleigh
Trio Nova Mundi 
Cathedral of St. Paul, 134 W. Seventh St.
Erie, PA
Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  
Friday, January 29, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi Semanas Musicales de Frutillar - Concierto extension
La Union, Chile
www.semanasmusicales.cl
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Trio Nova Mundi Semanas Musicales de Frutillar
Frutillar, Chile
Works by Beethoven, Ponce, Piazzolla
www.semanasmusicales.cl

2015

Sunday, November 22, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi Casa Reyna
Pittsburgh 15222
Mexican and Latin-American music ​
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi Wheeling Symphony Conductor's Circle
Private concert
Wheeling, WV
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi Canticum CD Release Party
Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Selected works from the CD and more
Monday, November 9, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi Faculty Recital at Grove City College
Arnold Hall, Pew Fine Arts Center
Grove City, PA
7:30 p.m.
Works by Debussy, Zeisl and more
Monday, October 26, 2015
Music from the Golden Age
Trio Nova Mundi 
First United Methodist Church, 707 Sassafras St, Erie, PA
Zeisl Piano Trio Suite in B minor
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Showtime!  Music from Film and Broadway
Tuesday Musical Club of Pittsburgh
Becky Billock and friends:  collaborations with Jonathan Aldrich (violin), Jack Kurutz (piano), and Trio Nova Mundi 
Works by John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, and Erich Zeisl
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi at the gala for the Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts
​Pittsburgh, PA
Monday, October 12, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi in recital at Grove City College
Arnold Hall, Pew Fine Arts Center
Grove City, PA
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi in recital
Casa Reyna
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi in concert on the Music in a Great Space concert series
Shadyside Presbyterian Church
5121 Westminster Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Works by W.A. Mozart, Claude Debussy, and others
Friday, April 24, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi with the Grove City College Orchestra
Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano by Elisenda Fabregas
Director: Jeffrey Tedford
Grove City College - Ketler Auditorium

Sunday, February 8, 2015
Trio Nova Mundi with the Atlanta Virtuosi
Director:  Juan Ramirez
WORLD PREMIERE OF COMMISSIONED PIECE
Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano by Elisenda Fabregas
Atlanta, GA
Georgia State University
Florence Kopleff Recital Hall

2014

Sunday, December 14, 2014
Trio Nova Mundi in concert on the Tapestry Chamber Music Series
First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Works by W. A. Mozart, Astor Piazzolla, Kenji Bunch*, Paul Ferguson, David Baker,  and others
                                    *with special guest percussionist group Identity Cubed
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Trio Nova Mundi Faculty Recital at Grove City College 
Pew Fine Arts Building, Arnold Recital Hall
Grove City, PA
Works by W.A. Mozart, Astor Piazzolla, Manuel Ponce, & Kenji Bunch*
                                    *with special guest percussionist group Identity Cubed
Friday, August 1, 2014
Trio Nova Mundi in concert
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Friday Night Live! Series
May 18-25, 2014
Trio Nova Mundi Mexico Tour
Performing works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Manuel Ponce, & Paul Schoenfield
Sunday, May 4
TMC Donor Appreciation Event
Pittsburgh, PA
Ragtime works by Robert Storms and collaborating with piano duo partner Jack Kurutz and PSO violinist Laura Motchalov.  Works by Debussy and others.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Convention of Federated Music Clubs
Cranberry, PA
Ragtime works by Robert Storms
April 6, 2014
Trio Nova Mundi in Concert
First Unitarian Church
Pittsburgh, PA
7:00 p.m.
Works by Amy Beach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Manuel Ponce, and Paul Schoenfield


March 30, 2014
Trio Nova Mundi 
Private concert
Pittsburgh, PA
Works by Beach, Ponce, & Schoenfield


March 8, 2014
Jazz Celebration VI 
featuring the music of Robert Storms
Whatcom Museum, Rotunda Room 
Dupont Street, Bellingham, Washington
Playing ragtime works by Robert Storms
February 19, 2014
Duo Junction in Recital
West Liberty University, West Liberty, PA
College Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Works by Kolm, Bauer, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, Brahms, and Adams

February 22, 2014
Duo Junction in Recital
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
Ketler Auditorium
2:00 p.m.
Works by Kolm, Bauer, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, Brahms, and Adams
February 7, 2014
Trio Nova Mundi in collaboration with Identity Cubed
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Friday Night Live! Series
Work by Kenji Bunch

2013

November 19, 2013
Trio Nova Mundi in concert
Grove City College, Grove City, PA 
Works by Beach, JacobTV, Coleridge Taylor & Schoenfield
November 17, 2013
Trio Nova Mundi in concert at the Fairmont, Pittsburgh, PA
Works by Beach, Coleridge-Taylor, & Schoenfield

August 29--September 16, 2013
Africa Tour with Trio Nova Mundi

  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • White River, South Africa
  • Lydenburg, South Africa
  • Maputo, Mozambique
  • Chamanculo, Mozambique
  • Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
  • Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Henley-on-Klip, South Africa
Tour details 
Works by Beethoven, Fabregas, Coleridge-Taylor, JacobTV, Schoenfield & Piazzolla

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Trio Nova Mundi
Grove City College Music Department
Faculty Trio Concert
Works by Beethoven, Fabregas, and Schoenfield
April 5 & 6, 2013
Finals of the Ellis Duo Competition
Duo Junction:  Duo pianists Jack Kurutz & Becky Billock
Jackson, MI
Piano duo and 4-hand rep including works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, Kolm, and Adams.

February 23--March 4, 2013
Northwest Tour with Duo Junction: Duo Pianists Jack Kurutz & Becky Billock
Feb 23, Seattle
Feb 26, Walla Walla
Feb 28, Portland
Mar 1, Salem
Mar 3, Olympia
Full tour details
Duo piano rep including works by Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Kolm, Piazzolla, and Adams.
February 10, 2013
Steinway Piano Series presented by the Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania
Faigen/Billock piano duo, with pianist Tina Faigen 
Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Works by Rachmaninoff, Lutoslawski, and Schultz
January 24, 2013
Faculty Recital at West Liberty University
Faigen/Billock piano duo, with duo partner Tina Faigen 
College Hall, West Liberty University
West Liberty, WV

2012


December 2, 2012
TMC Donor Event
Private event
   Collaboration with pianist Jack Kurutz, and violinist Laura Motchalov
November 2012
TMC Saturday Concert Series
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
4-hand rep with pianist Jack Kurutz
September/October 2012
Series of concerts in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 
With soprano Gail Wettstein and others 
September 28-October 6, 2012    
   Vocal rep including Ives, Schubert, Larsen, Quilter, Gershwin, and others
   Piano duo/duet rep including Mozart, Bach and Brahms
   Solo rep including Chopin, Diemer, and Pierson
September 2012
TMC Piano Division
Private home
Hallelujah Junction by John Adams, with pianist Jack Kurutz
September 2012
Collaboration with Living Room Chamber Music Project 
Pittsburgh, PA
Mozart Concerto for 2 pianos, with pianist Jack Kurutz and the chamber ensemble
September 11, 2012
Tuesday Musical Club Concert
St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, PA
Solo rep
Homage to the those who died on September 11, 2001     
     Works by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, J.S. Bach, and Aaron Copland
April 2012
Private performance
Piano Duo repertoire with Faigen/Billock Duo
March 2012
TMC Impresario Donor Dinner and Soiree
Private residence, Pittsburgh, PA 
Solo piano rep

January 2012
Tuesday Musical Club Winter Concert
St. Andrews Episcopal Church 
  Franck Violin Sonata with Jonathan Aldrich
  Beethoven Trio with Jonathan Aldrich (violin), and Peter Levine (cello)

2011

Dec 2011
Musicians in our Midst concert series, 
First Unitarian Church, Pittsburgh, PA
    Franck Sonata with Jonathan Aldrich, violin
Dec 2011
WQLN FM, Erie, PA
Lobby Performance and live broadcast
  Solo piano repertoire, promoting Musesnine CD
Nov 2011
Morning Pointe, Chattanooga, TN
  Collaboration with Jonathan Aldrich, violin
Nov 2011
Tuesday Musical Club, Pittsburgh, PA
Private donor event
  Collaboration with Jonathan Aldrich (violin) and Nathan Carterette (piano)
Oct 2011
West Liberty University, West Liberty, WV
  Faculty Recital
  Solo piano repertoire by women of the 20th and 21st centuries
Oct 2011
Living Room Chamber Music Project concert series, Pittsburgh, PA
  Two piano repertoire with Jack Kurutz
Sept 2011
Congress for the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
  Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
  Participation on Congress concert series
  Solo piano repertoire by Bauer and Joyce
July 2011
Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA
  Two-piano repertoire with Jack Kurutz
May 2011
Allegheny Riverstone Center for the Arts, Foxburg, PA
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women
May 2011
Tuesday Musical Club, Pittsburgh, PA
  Private donor event
  Solo repertoire, and collaboration with PSO violinist Laura Motchalov
Apr 2011
CD release for musesnine: eight american composers plus one pianist
  Kresge Theatre, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  Selections from CD, other repertoire by women
  East Coast premiere of Preludes of Pace by Molly Joyce
Mar 2011
Pasadena, CA
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women

2010

Nov 2010 
Northwest Tour, Women at Present 
  Performances in Olympia, Portland, Salem, Walla Walla, Seattle, and Bellingham 
  Solo piano repertoire by women 
Sept 2010 
Pittsburgh Concert Society 
  Winner’s concert 
  Solo repertoire 
March 2010 
International Festival of Women Composers 
  Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 
  Lecture-recital 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women
March 2010 
Friday Musicale, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA 
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women
March 2010 
Robert Schultz concert—all music by American composer Robert Schultz 
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 
  4 hand repertoire with pianist Tina Faigen
March 2010 
Tuesday Musical Club, Spring Concert  
  With retired PSO violinist, Roy Sonne
February 2010  
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women 
January 2010 
Tuesday Musical Club Winter Concert, Pittsburgh, PA 
  Schumann and Chopin Commemorative Program 
  Solo piano repertoire by Chopin 

2009

October 2009 
University of Washington School of Music, Seattle, WA 
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women
October 2009 
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women
October 2009 
Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania 
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women
October 2009 
CAPA High School, Pittsburgh, PA 
  Solo piano recital, “Women Working” 
  Solo piano repertoire by American women 
Sept 2009 
Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne University 
  Faculty recital with Pittburgh Symphony (and DU faculty) cellist Adam Liu CV for Becky Billock, DMA  
  Included world premiere of piece by Changyuan Liu
May 2009 
Sanctuary Series of the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh 
  Solo piano music by American women
April 2009 
Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania
  With Pittburgh Symphony cellist Adam Liu
January 2009 
Bach’s Lunch Noontime Series, Pittsburgh, PA 
  With Pittburgh Symphony cellist Adam Liu