Rosetta Trio to perform chamber music concert at Temple Jacob

HANCOCK -- The Keweenaw audience will have a unique opportunity to hear classical and contemporary chamber music performed in a unique venue when a trio of performers on vacation presents a special concert at Hancock’s historic synagogue, known for its excellent acoustics.

The Rosetta Trio will perform a concert of chamber music at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 14, at Temple Jacob in Hancock. The program includes Schubert: Trio in Bb Major; Mozart: Divertimento; Sibelius: String Trio and more. Trio members are violist Sarah Darling, violinist Abigail Karr and cellist Kate Bennett Haynes.

Haynes is a fifth generation Yooper with deep roots in the Copper Country. Her great-great grandparents, the Kargelas, and her great-grandparents, the Stroms, lived in Calumet and Laurium. Her ancestor Ocha Potter, a Tech alum, designed and developed Brockway Mountain Drive and the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge. Currently based in Toronto, Haynes performs frequently with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. At age four, she told her parents, "I want to play the cello."

Temple Jacob is the only active synagogue in Michigan on the National Register of Historic Places.

The concert is free, but donations are appreciated. Parking is available at the bank east of the synagogue or at the marina down the hill.

According to their Web site, the Rosetta Trio will also perform this concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, at the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge in Copper Harbor and from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Vertin Gallery in Hancock.

For more information about the Trio go to http://www.rosettatrio.com/. For more information about the event, phone 482-3270.