The Northern Third Piano Quartet performs at the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House at 4pm on Sunday, February 16 in the program "Beautiful Wanderings." Admission is $15, $5 for kids and students. The group will perform the music of Central European and American music by Beethoven, Debussy, Dvorak, Suk, and Vermont composer, Don Jamison.

Featured is the world premiere of the string trio "Walking Meditation" by Don Jamison.

Jamison describes his work as follows: "My Walking Meditation is modeled on a mantra-like verse that I often recited to myself on my morning walks a couple of years ago. The musical form, like that of a tune for a dance, creates a simple and regular pattern, a kind of mandala in time. " The Northern Piano Quartet will also perform in various combinations, the "Eyeglasses Duo" for viola and cello by Beethoven, "Sonata for Violin and Piano" by Debussy, the "Bagatelles" by Dvorak and Joseph Suk's "Piano Quartet in A minor." This piano quartet, Suk's first chamber work, was initially written as a graduation assignment for his composition teacher (and eventual father-in-law), Antonin Dvorak. The Northern Third Piano Quartet is excited to add this work to their repertoire and to share it with audiences in Vermont.

Violinist Sofia Hirsch, violist Elizabeth Reid, cellist John Dunlop and pianist Alison Bruce Cerutti are among Vermont top professional musicians.  "Four of Vermont's finest instrumentalists have united to provide the state with first rate performances." James Lowe, Times Argus