Name: GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE 2025-26 SERIES OPENS OCT. 10WITH NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY’S ‘TRIO GAIA’
Start: 2025-10-10T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church

$GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE 2025-26 SERIES OPENS OCT. 10WITH NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY\u2019S \u2018TRIO GAIA\u2019$

The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation is honored to be presenting Trio Gaia the graduate piano trio-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday October 10 at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church in Gloucester MA.
This is the trio’s debut in the Foundation’s 10 years of programming in the 1806 Meetinghouse a historic landmark on the Gloucester skyline and cited in the National Register of Historic Places.
The award-winning trio’s program titled “Convergence” will include works by Nico Muhly Leoš Janáček and Béla Bartok concluding with Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E Flat Major. It explores a theme of our times—conflict both internal and external—and its resolution through music. Grant Houston Trio Gaia’s violinist and spokesman said “This program offers a reflective parallel to today's world where divisions and struggles for resolution continue to shape our collective experience and the search for unity persists despite discord.”
Cellist Yi-Mei Templeton and guest-artist pianist Alexa Stier will be joining Houston. The trio is the Conservatory's most recent graduate piano trio-in-residence performing nationally and abroad since 2018 including in Panama and Japan. Trio Gaia won first prize at the WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition in North Carolina and honors at other competitions.
Tickets are available at www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org or at the door. The Meetinghouse is at Middle and Church Streets in Gloucester The location is most easily found via GPS using the address 50 Middle Street. Limited parking is available on the Green in front of the church entered from Middle Street. Access for persons with disabilities is at 10 Church Street.
The Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church traces its history to the 1779 founding of the first Universalist church in America a rebellious congregation that played a timely role in development of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Meetinghouse Foundation is dedicated to the building’s preservation and use for and by the community.