Coming up in Philly music: Well met in Marlboro with Tre Voci

The Marlboro Festival has become one of the great incubators of chamber-music groups. Veteran stars and promising young newcomers gather in Marlboro, Vermont, every summer and work on chamber pieces. Every now and then, three or four musicians form a bond that turns into a permanent association.

String quartets are the commonest progeny of the Marlboro process. Tre Voci is something more offbeat — a trio for flute, viola, and harp. Its members met at Marlboro in 2010. They’re all musicians with formidable reputations as individual performers: flutist Marina Piccinini, violist Kim Kashkashian, and the young Israeli harpist Sivan Magen.

Their program for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society includes the Philadelphia premiere of a new work by Toshio Hosakawa, a world-renowned leader in the integration of Asian culture and the Western classical tradition. The rest of the program features solos, trios, and duos by Bach and a bevy of 20th-century composers. The finale will be an arrangement of one of the most appealing works in the orchestral repertoire, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet music.

This will be the first PCMS concert in an attractive, underused performance site: the lecture hall of the College of Physicians. The hall’s size and general atmosphere create an ideal setting for chamber music, and more organizations seem to be discovering its virtues. Dolce Suono performed there in March, and the College is currently hosting a chamber series featuring Philadelphia Orchestra musicians.

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will present Tre Voci on Monday, April 16, at 8pm at the College of Physicians (19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia). Tickets ($20) are available online and at the door.