The players are Ani Kavafian and Kerry McDermott, violinists; Paul Neubauer, violist; and Fred Sherry and Ronald Thomas, cellists.

The resident Emelin Trio - consisting of the pianist Efrem Briskin, the violinist Kerry McDermott and the cellist David Krieger - will offer works by Schubert, Kodaly and Franck.

Two members of the Emelin Trio - the violinist, Kerry McDermott, and cellist, David Kreieger - will be featured in the Brahms Double Concerto.

Scored for solo violin with a taped violin accompaniment, but performed here as a duet with Kerry McDermott, Schnittke's tribute is an ascetic, pained work, starkly dissonant and extremely moving.

Now Kerry McDermott is a violinist in the New York Philharmonic and Anne-Marie McDermott and Maureen McDermott are occasionally heard as piano and cello recitalists, respectively.

Daniel Druckman's exotic percussion instruments set against Kerry McDermott's impassioned violin and James Winn's virtuoso piano gave "Set of Five" a post-modern mismatching of means.

Accordingly, the members of the Emelin Trio - Efrem Briskin, David Krieger and Kerry McDermott - are holding a benefit gala this afternoon for the Summit Music Festival, which they founded and direct.

But Kerry McDermott, a violinist, said: "I think that Masur gives us a lot of freedom, which is sort of funny, because he does work really hard, and he demands exactly what he wants.

Paul Neubauer directs a chamber series, featuring Kerry McDermott, Christiaan Bor and Stephen Balderston.

Chamber and symphonic concerts, with the Richmond Symphony, the Chamber Chorale of Fredericksburg, Heidi Lehwalder, Kerry McDermott, others.