Formed in 2005, the TriCordes ensemble is New England's only regularly performing violin, cello and guitar trio. TriCordes programs are a refreshing departure from the norm at chamber music series, guitar festivals, and general music series alike. Original pieces by familiar composers Haydn and Paganini, as well as transcriptions by Bach, comprise part of the group's distinctive repertoire. TriCordes rounds out its programs with charming works by lesser known classical masters such as Giuliani and Fossa, and daring new works by composers from around the world, such as Ester Magi, Rene Eespere, Bryan Johanson, David Leisner, and Jorge Morel. Please contact for booking and current programming info.



Andrew Smith studied at the Royal Academy of Music, UK where his teachers included Erich Gruenberg and Emanuel Hurwitz. Upon graduating with honors he was awarded the Farjeon Prize and granted a position on the Advanced Solo Studies course. Leaving college in 1992, he was appointed as Concertmaster of the Orquestra da Norte, Portugal and in the same year he made his London debut at the South Bank Centre. He moved to the US in 1996 as Assistant to the Emerson String Quartet, winners of five Grammy awards, and continued his solo studies with Ida Kavafian, getting his Doctorate in Performance from the Hartt School.

As a soloist Andrew has performed with orchestras throughout Europe, China and the United States. He has appeared at such venues as the British Embassy in Paris, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, the Edinburgh International Festival, the British Music Information Centre, the Chicago Cultural Center and Chicago’s Symphony Hall, and his concerts have been broadcast on public television and radio in England, Italy, Portugal, and America. As a guest artist he has appeared in concert for the American Liszt Society, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, the US Coast Guard, “World Hunger”, and “Artists Against Aids” and was named 2004 solo artist for the LaPorte Symphony. His recording of the Glazunow Concerto appears on the VUCA label. Before coming to the US in 1996 he held positions as Concertmaster of Orquestra da Norte, Portugal, the European Chamber Opera, the Heart of England Opera, and as Associate Concertmaster of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company and worked with such orchestras as the London Pops, the English Festival Orchestra, Moscow City Ballet and the National Symphony Orchestra, UK. In the US he has received invitations to appear as guest concertmaster with the Illinois Philharmonic, the Kalamazoo Symphony, and Connecticut Virtuosi among others.

Andrew was a founding member of the new music group “The Rubicon Ensemble” and served as its Artistic Director between 1990 and 1995. Andrew has taught on the faculty of Valparaiso University, St. Joseph’s College, the Hartford Conservatory, the Hartt Community Division and is now Director of the Suzuki Music School of Westport. He has given masterclasses at the Hartt School, the Shanghai Conservatory, Jiangsu Performing Arts Center, San Francisco University, State University New York and Andrew’s University and appeared twice as guest clinician for ASTA String Days. In 2002 his study of fin-de-siècle art and music won him two awards for research at the Conservatoire Royale de Musique and the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He plays as violinist of the Castillon Trio, Ensemble in Residence at the Stamford International Music Festival, UK.


Andrea E. Mills holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Hartt School and a Master of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Among her teachers she includes cellists Alan Harris, David Wells and Peter Stumpf, and ensembles including the Cleveland Quartet, the Emerson Quartet, and the American Quartet. She has participated in masterclasses with Orlando Cole, Irene Sharp and Yehudi Hanani and attended the Aspen Music School, the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the Spoleto Festival, SC. She currently teaches and performs each summer as artist faculty at the Stamford International Music Festival in England. Her playing has been hailed as “rich and eloquent” (The Evening Telegraph, UK).

Andrea has held positions as principal cellist with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, with whom she performed as soloist. As an orchestral musician she has played with numerous orchestras including the Kalamazoo Symphony, the South Bend Symphony, the Illinois Philharmonic, Connecticut Virtuosi, the New Haven Symphony, the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, the Erie Philharmonic and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. In 2003, she joined the orchestra of the Sarasota Opera Company.

Andrea has a wide variety of musical interests from contemporary music to jazz cello. In 1998, she studied jazz cello at the Henry Mancini Institute, CA., where she performed at the Hollywood Bowl. She has played with such familiar names as Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Johnny Mathias, Yes, Diana Krall, Dave Gruisin and the Turtle Island String Quartet.

As a dedicated teacher of both traditional and Suzuki cello she has served on the faculty of the Valparaiso University, Ethel Walker School, Choate-Rosemary Hall, the Hartt Community Division and the Western Springs Suzuki School. Her pedagogy training includes specialist work in San Francisco, Cleveland, Ithaca, West Hartford, and Chicago. In her spare time, she assisted Daniel Morganstern, principal cellist of the Lyric Opera, on a book on cello technique published by International Edition.

She performs as cellist with the Castillon Trio described as a “dynamic American Trio” (Evening Telegraph, UK) “not to be missed by any music lover” (Herald Argus)


Described by the Hartford Courant as “a guitarist for music lovers to catch”. Seattle native, Daniel Corr is active as a performing classical guitarist and teacher throughout the United States and Canada. He has been a featured solo recitalist at major guitar festivals such as the Northwest, and Oneonta festivals. Daniel has been a concerto soloist with the American Classical Orchestra in NYC, Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Creative Orchestra, and with the Orchestra of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. He has performed widely on the Yale campus, including a concert shared with the Portland String Quartet at Beinecke Library, and at the Yale Center for British Art. Daniel’s first commercial recording “Concierto de Aranjuez: The Auburn Symphony in Concert” was released in February of 2005.

Daniel Corr was the 1st place winner of the 2002 International Northwest Guitar Competition, a prize-winner in the 1999 Crane New Music Solo Performer Competition adjudicated by Pulitzer Prize winner George Crumb, and a recipient of Yale's Eliot Fisk Prize as the "outstanding graduate in guitar" in 2001. In 2006, Daniel was awarded the Certificate of Excellence from the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Daniel is a graduate of Cornish College (BM) and the Yale School of Music (MM, AD) where his principal teachers were Steven Novacek and Benjamin Verdery. He has also studied with Grammy winner Sharon Isbin of the Jiulliard School at the Aspen Music School in Colorado. www.danielcorr.com for more info and concert schedule.

"lyrical...hypnotic...fiery and driving...played with complete confidence, always pushing forward, yet never overtaking the flow. He displayed the process of uncovering the essence of Bach, something any artist may pursue for the rest of their life…He shows not only command of technique, but also a reasoned approach to music not found in many of this instrument.” - Seattle Classic Guitar Society