The Emery Trio is a premiere piano trio based in Cincinnati, Ohio, which strives to present a more varied program than trios traditionally offer. While each of the members is a heralded soloist and appears regularly in recital and concerto performances, they are also accomplished chamber musicians, who complete their artistic lives performing small ensemble masterpieces. Indeed, Homer Ulrich of Chamber Music America referred to this phenomenon when he said, "The professional musician turns to chamber music for relaxation and for a kind of pleasure that no other field offers." The Emery Trio strives to project that pleasure in their performances and to infect audiences with the same love for this music that they feel.

The Emery Trio has been featured on regional NPR public radio broadcasts and has been invited to perform and give master classes at colleges and music festivals in the United States; most recently for Illinois State University, the University of Georgia, the University of Tennessee, and the Governor's Honors Program of both Kentucky and Georgia. They present programs that cast the performers in duo, solo and trio combinations, providing the listener a variety of literature and texture that no other piano trio offers.

Orieta Dado is a violin and music theory faculty member for the Starling Program and was a Starling Award Winner, herself, as a youngster. She has studied with America's foremost violin teacher, the late Dorothy Delay, as well as her principal teacher, Kurt Sassmannshaus, and with Piotr Milewski.

Ms. Dado is a winner of the Naftzger Grand Prize and Jefferson Young Artist Competitions. She has performed as a soloist with the Jefferson Symphony, Aspen Young Artists, Hays Symphony, the Starling Orchestra; and has been featured on a broadcast of Radio Kansas. Her chamber music experience includes performances at the Aspen Music Festival, Schlesswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Cincinnati Bachanalia. In addition, she has appeared in master classes for the Tokyo String Quartet, Rosamnde String Quartet, Opus X Piano Quartet, James Tocco and Yehuda Hanani A native of Albania she has won numerous competitions, and has been featured in broadcasts of Albanian National Radio and Television and has performed in Europe, including concerts in Italy, Germany and France. At the age of fourteen she appeared as a soloist with the Tirana Philharmonic, an event that received critical acclaim. Currently she is an associate musician of the Columbus (OH) Symphony Orchestra and is a candidate for the degree DMA in violin.

Ashley Sandor Sidon, is the Emery Trio cellist and manager or agent. Please see Ms. Sandor Sidon's biographical information on this web site by clicking "Biography" at the bottom of any page.

Judith Fleitas, instructor of piano at Hope Church School of Music in Mason, OH is currently finishing the master's degree in piano performance at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where her principal piano teacher is Frank Weinstock and chamber coach is Lee Fiser. She holds the bachelor's degree in piano performance from Indiana University where her principal teachers were Evelyne Brancart and Jeremy Denk. Ms. Fleitas was born in Cuba, where she initiated her piano studies at the Vocational Art School in Santiago de Cuba, followed by advanced study at the National Art School in Havana. Since the early age of eight Ms. Fleitas has been consistently exposed to public performances and has won several piano competitions in her native land. In the US, Ms. Fleitas has studied periodically with Awadagin Pratt and performed in master classes for Leonard Honkanson, Joseph Bonawetz, Daniel Shapiro, James Jiles, James Tocco, Peter Aunjin, the Amernet String Quartet and the Alexander String Quartet. As a soloist, Ms. Fleitas has performed across the United States, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

For Booking Information, tour schedules, repertoire, etc., please contact Ashley Sandor Sidon by clicking "Contact Me" at the bottom of any page on this web site.

The Emery Trio
Orieta Dado, violin
Ashley Sandor Sidon, violoncello
Judith Fleitas, piano