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The piano trio Trillium — consisting of (from left) Soyeon Rachel Soe, Dr. Robert Bonham and Alicia Randisi-Hooker — will perform Sept. 21 at the Clayton Center for the Arts.

Trillium and Friends to serenade concert-goers at Sept. 21 Clayton Center performance

Sept. 3, 2025

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Maryville College will present the musical ensemble Trillium and Friends at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, in the Lambert Recital Hall in the Clayton Center for the Arts on the Maryville College campus. 

Admission is free, and all are welcome. Trillium, a piano trio consisting of violin, cello and violin, will be joined by a second violin and a viola.

The program will feature two masterpieces, Beethoven’s “Archduke Trio” and Dvorak’s “Piano Quintet in A.” In addition, the group will play a medley arranged by member Rachel Soe that combines “Arirang,” a beloved Korean folk song, and “Aegukga,” the Korean national anthem.

Trillium, now celebrating 12 years as a performing ensemble, has enjoyed playing for enthusiastic audiences from Maryland to North Dakota, Virginia and North Carolina, in addition to numerous performances in Blount, Knox and Anderson counties.

Soyeon Rachel Seo, DMA, is a violinist originally from Seoul, South Korea. She has won numerous solo competitions, which led to a Winner’s Recital at Carnegie Hall in December 2019. She has worked as a full-time violinist with orchestras across Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky. Daughter Chloe is a very recent addition to her family.

Carlos Hernandez, violinist, is a native of Puerto Rico. He has earned multiple degrees in music at UT. He has performed professionally with orchestras in Puerto Rico, Ohio and Tennessee. Currently, he teaches orchestra at Oak Ridge High School and performs with various local ensembles.

Julie Bélanger Roy, violist, is a native of Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is known as a singer, violist and violinist. She has sung with Marble City Opera, offered a vocal recital in Gwangiu, South Korea, and played viola and violin with numerous symphonies in Tennessee. In addition, she is the front woman and songwriter of the symphonic metal ensemble Gone in April, with whom she has performed in Asia and across North America.

Alicia Randisi-Hooker, cellist, has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Her students have won prizes, scholarships and competitions both nationally and internationally. Believing that music can educate the whole child, enriching whole lifetimes, she also spends countless hours in community outreach to advocate for music education and chamber music performance.

Dr. Robert Bonham, pianist, is professor emeritus at Maryville College and a recipient of the Maryville College Outstanding Teacher Award. He presents a variety of workshops nationally to enhance wellness and performance. He also enjoys leading groups to explore India or sail the Greek seas.

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”