Frahm-Lewis Trio

Pianist Nathan Buckner has performed in recitals in major venues throughout the United States, as well as in Belarus, China, England, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Slovenia, and Taiwan. American recitals include New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Washington’s Kennedy Center. Chamber collaborations include DaCapo Chamber Players (Merkin Hall, New York), Contemporary Music Forum (Corcoran Gallery, Washington), Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts (Chicago), and Abbey Bach Festival (Mount Angel OR). In connection with American composer Philip Antony Corri, he has edited for Kallisti Music Press and written for the New Grove Dictionary of Music. Buckner holds performance degrees from The Juilliard School, Indiana University, and the University of Maryland, where his principal teachers were Edward Auer, Shoshana Cohen, Olegna Fuschi, and Beveridge Webster. 

A Taiwan native, violinist Ting-Lan Chen holds performance degrees from the Taipei National University of the Arts and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; her teachers included Su Shien-Ta and Piotr Milewski. She has appeared in the Young Musician’s Concerts at the White House and United Nations, and in recitals in England, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, and throughout the United States. Orchestral performances include the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, the Texas Festival Orchestra, the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, and as a member of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. Venues include the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Vienna Konzert-haus, Berlin Schauspielhaus, Lisbon Cultural Center, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Singapore Conference Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and Hollywood Bowl. 

An ASTA Competition national finalist, Noah Turner Rogoff has served as assistant principal cellist of the Camerata Fukuda in São Paulo, Brazil, as soloist with the Cedar Rapids Symphony, and performed on many occasions with the Minnesota Orchestra. Solo and chamber recitals and performances include the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts (Chicago), Hampden-Sydney Festival (Virginia), Kneisel Hall Festival (Maine), and at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Center in the complete solo cello music of Elliott Carter in the presence of the composer. Rogoff has been a visiting scholar with the faculty of music at Cambridge University, where he served as artist by-fellow of Churchill College. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Tanya Remenikova, and received further instruction from Steven Isserlis, Paul Katz, and members of the Juilliard and Shanghai String Quartets. 

Buckner, Chen, and Rogoff form the Frahm-Lewis Trio, which has served as the resident faculty piano trio for the University of Nebraska at Kearney since 2008. The ensemble has appeared in many of the principal performance venues throughout Nebraska, as well as in recitals in England, Malaysia, and the United States.