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This trio of PCMS favorites—“heart-stopping” violinist Hye-Jin Kim (The Strad ), former Johannes Quartet cellist Peter Stumpf, and distinguished pianist Cynthia Raim—return for an all-Mendelssohn program. The evening opens with the restless Cello Sonata in B-flat Major, followed by the concerto-like Violin Sonata in F Major and the heartfelt Piano Trio in C Minor.

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Hye-Jin Kim, violin Peter Stumpf, cello Cynthia Raim, piano

 Benjamin Franklin Hall

PCMS celebrates Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday with two programs (the second on May 6) dedicated to this extraordinary French composer, pianist, and conductor. The first event features “supremely musical” (The Strad) violinist Hye-Jin Kim and fellow Society favorites cellist Peter Stumpf and pianist Cynthia Raim in a program culminating with the composer’s Piano Trio in A Minor. This trio is acclaimed for its fresh and compelling musical voice, and for uniting an immediate sensual appeal with a brilliantly-crafted architecture.

PCMS’s second event honoring Ravel’s 150th birthday features pianists Lydia Artymiw and Cynthia Raim, both of whom have been Philadelphia favorites for decades, with more than 70 PCMS performances between them. For this special duo recital, Artymiw and Raim present solo and four-hands works by Ravel, whose revelatory style of French music draws from such diverse inspirations as Asian culture, French Symbolist poetry, Spanish folk music, and Impressionist painting.

Lydia Artymiw, piano Cynthia Raim, piano

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Hailed by Gramophone as “the Heifetz of the flute,” flutist Marina Piccinini returns to the PCMS stage with “supremely musical” violinist Hye-Jin Kim (The Strad), “warmly communicative” cellist Peter Stumpf (Seen and Heard International), and pianist and Society favorite Cynthia Raim. This program features exciting and technically demanding repertoire for the flute and concludes with Mozart’s Piano Trio in G Major, the first of his later trios to be written for fortepiano, rather than harpsichord.

Marina Piccinini, flute & Hye-Jin Kim, violin & Peter Stumpf, cello & Cynthia Raim, piano

American Philosophical Society

Cellist Peter Stumpf, of the Johannes Quartet and former principal of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, takes us on a uniquely expressive musical journey with another longtime Society favorite, pianist Cynthia Raim. Their all-French program ranges from the raw emotion of Debussy’s Cello Sonata to a pair of charming works by Fauré before concluding with Poulenc’s Cello Sonata, a lush, Romantic work described as “Mozart meets Stravinsky—in a Paris cabaret.”

Pianist

Cynthia Raim

Events

Past events

Feb 27, 2026

Hye-Jin Kim, violin Peter Stumpf, cello Cynthia Raim, piano · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

May 22, 2025

Hye-Jin Kim, violin Peter Stumpf, cello Cynthia Raim, piano · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Piano Trio No. 2 by Mendelssohn

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Piano in Piano Trio in A minor by Ravel

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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