South Windsor Cultural Arts - Sunday Concert Series

Featured as both Musical America’s “New Artist of the Month” and one of Gramophone Magazine’s “Ones to Watch,” rising star cellist Jonathan Swensen was awarded First Prize at the 2024 Naumburg International Cello Competition in New York. He is also a recipient of a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and First Prize winner of the 2019 Windsor International String Competition and the 2018 Khachaturian International Cello Competition.

Now entering their second decade, the United States-based Hermitage Piano Trio has solidified its place as one of the world’s leading piano trios, garnering multiple GRAMMY® Award nominations and receiving both audience and press accolades for their performances that The Washington Post singled out for “such power and sweeping passion that it left you nearly out of breath.” Albert Cano Smit, piano A musician who has been praised as “a moving young poet” (Le Devoir of Montreal), Spanish/Dutch pia