The Chapel Restoration Opens its 2026 Sunday Music Series on April 19 with the Hudson Muse Trio

Cold Spring, NY, April 2026 – Bringing together the talents of Helena Baillie, violin/viola, Anita Balázs, cello, and Erika Switzer, piano, the Hudson Muse Trio opens the Sunday Music Series’ 2026 season with music by Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Cashel Day-Lewis at the Chapel Restoration on Sunday, April 19 at 4pm. The concert at the historic landmark on the banks of the Hudson River is free and open to all. Donations are encouraged.

The program features a trio of elegies: Gabriel Fauré’s Élégie for cello and piano, Op. 24; contemporary composer Cashel Day-Lewis’ Foxglove Elegy for viola and piano; and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. For violinist/violist Helena Baillie, it is a “program of music shaped by remembrance and reflection. Fauré’s beloved Élégie for cello and piano unfolds with tender lyricism and quiet sorrow. Foxglove Elegy for viola and piano, by Cashel Day-Lewis, a gifted young composer, draws on the atmosphere of Irish legend, where myth and memory gently converge. The program concludes with Tchaikovsky’s haunting Piano Trio, a powerful and deeply moving tribute that transforms grief into a sweeping, luminous narrative.”

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, the London-born Baillie has been hailed by The Strad magazine for her “brilliance and poignance,” and stands apart for a rare ease on both violin and viola. She has performed across Europe and the United States, with broadcasts on BBC 3 and Performance Today for American Public Radio, and has collaborated with Pinchas Zuckerman, Midori, the Tokyo String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio.

Cellist Anita Balázs hails from Hungary, and is a laureate of several international competitions, including the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition and the Alfredo e Vanda Marcosig International Competition (Italy) and was awarded 1st Prize and Grand Prix of the Jury at the János Starker Competition and 1st Prize at the International Cello Competition in Liezen,

Austria. Balázs is two-time recipient of the Hungary Initiatives Foundation’s Graduate Scholarship, and is a member of the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Completing the trio is pianist Erika Switzer, a regular performer in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Frick Collection, and Bargemusic. Switzer holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School and is on the music faculty at Bard College and the Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory of Music. Her organization, Sparks & Wiry Cries, which she co-founded with soprano Martha Guth, curates opportunities for song creators and performers, including the songSLAM festival, and publishes The Art Song Magazine.

The Chapel Restoration is located at 45 Market Street, directly across from the Metro-North Train Station. Parking is free on Sundays. This concert is made possible, in part, through a grant from the Putnam Arts Council’s Arts Link Grant Program with public funds from the NYS Council on the Arts with support from the Governor’s Office and the NYS Legislature, and with contributions from the public.