CHAMBER CONCERT: As part of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s new chamber music series, the Black Oak Ensemble performs at Trinity Church on March 20. (Photo by Ayaka Sano)

The Black Oak Ensemble performs on Thursday, March 20 at 7 p.m. on the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)’s new chamber music series at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. On the program are an arrangement of the aria from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Vittorio Monti’s Csárdás, based on a Hungarian folk dance, and trios by Gideon Klein, Jean Cras, and Henri Tomasi.

The trio includes violinist Desirée Ruhstrat and cellist David Cunliffe, members of the Grammy-nominated Lincoln Trio, and violist Aurélien Fort Pederzoli, a founding member of the Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet.

The ensemble are the 2023 winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music Performance and the International Chamber Music Award. Black Oak’s latest CD, Avant l’orage, a double album of French string trios, reached No. 1 in the Billboard Classical Charts in July 2022.

Their début album on Cedille Records, Silenced Voices, is dedicated to Jewish composers, most of whom lost their lives during the Holocaust. Recent international tours have taken the Black Oak Ensemble to Amsterdam, Geneva, the Everlasting Hope Festival in Terezin, Paris, Grenoble, Athens, and other major cities. In the U.S., they have appeared at the Newport Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Art Institute of Chicago, and many other venues. They made their New York debut in 2022 at the Morgan Museum.

Tickets are $45 per person. Youths 5-17 receive a 50 percent discount with an adult purchase. Visit princetonsymphony.org or call (609) 497-0020.