About Our Artists

Co-Founded in 1992 by pianist Marily Thompson and cellist Jill Rachuy Brindel, NAVARRO TRIO is currently in its 26th season as chamber music artists-in-residence at Sonoma State.  Comprised of violinist Tammie Dyer, cellist Jill Rachuy Brindel and pianist Marily Thompson, NAVARRO TRIO has performed virtually the entire "standard" piano trio repertoire.  They are advocates of out-of-print and rarely performed works by composers including Rebecca Clarke, Paul Juon, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Clara Schumann and Sergei Taneyev.  In the contemporary vein, they have performed trios by Chick Corea, Richard Danielpour, Brian S. Wilson, Kirke Mechem, and Paul Schoenfeld.  Their frequent collaborations with Bay Area musicians and instrumentalists from the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet orchestras have brought a remarkable range of mixed ensemble repertoire that includes the String Quartets of Bernard Brindel and Iosif Andriasov; Piano Quintets of Schumann and Shostakovich; the Vaughan Williams Quintet in D; Piano Quartets of Catoire, Fauré, Mozart, Sait-Saëns and Schumann, and the Horn Trios of Brahms and Brian S. Wilson.