A performance by the internationally acclaimed Trio Rachmaninoff opens the third season of the Bjorklunden Music Series Sunday, Jan. 9. The series showcases performances of faculty members and students of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.
All concert performances are free and open to the public.
Bankas joined the Lawrence Conservatory of Music faculty in 1999. Winner of numerous violin competitions, he is the concertmaster and artistic director of the Canadian Chamber Academy Orchestra. Iotcheva, a native of Bulgaria who began her musical studies at the age of five, is a two-time winner of national competitions in her homeland. Lare, who was born in Paris and has performed throughout France, Russia and Canada, won the 1994 First Concerto Competition at the University of Montreal, where he currently teaches. SAI, a national honorary society for women, performs works by various composers.