The Concordia String Trio's members, violinist Marcia Henry Liebenow, violist Leslie Perna and cellist Darry Dolezal, met in Boston in the early 1990s. Since forming the Trio in 1999 they have performed at the Tsai Center for the Performing Arts in Boston and the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont, as well as venues throughout the Midwest. Last season, in addition to their Dingeldine concert, they performed in Chicago, presented several concerts in Missouri, and had a week-long tour to Boston in late March, with concerts and lecture/demonstrations at Tufts University and Berklee College of Music, as well as other venues. They also premiered new works in Texas and at the Alfred Loeffler New Music Symposium at the California State University-Chico's School of the Arts.

Many fine composers have written pieces for the Concordia String Trio, including Leonard Mark Lewis, Samuel Headrick, Andrew List, Jeffrey Hoover, Alan Schmitz, and David Colson. Capstone Records released the Trio's recording of Alan Schmitz's "String Trio," and they have recorded Andrew List's "Six Bagatelles for String Trio" for future release.

Marcia Henry Liebenow is Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and teaches violin, viola, and chamber music at Bradley University. She leads an active career as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States and abroad, collaborating with such well-known artists as Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Mathieu Dufour, Martin Chalifour, Maria Lambros, Michael Kannen, and Donald Weilerstein. Her performances have been broadcast in Russia and throughout the United States, including appearances on National Public Radio's Performance Today. In October 2007 the CD she recorded with Pompa-Baldi of the three Grieg Violin Sonatas was released by Centaur Records.

A founding member of the River City String Quartet, she has appeared as a soloist with the Samara Philharmonic Symphony in Russia, and served as Primo Violino at the Orvieto Musica in Italy. She is frequently invited to perform and teach at music festivals around the country, including the ARIA International Summer Academy, Cornerstone Music Festival, Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana, Birch Creek Music Festival in Wisconsin, and the Sebago-Long Lake Chamber Music Festival in Maine. She gives master classes around the United States and adjudicates competitions at other universities.

In 2008, Marcia received the College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award in Music from Ohio University, and the Women in Leadership Award by the Peoria Chamber of Commerce. She has also been honored with the Outstanding Studio Teacher award from the Illinois American String Teachers' Association, and for her creative contributions to the community by the ArtsPartners of Central Illinois. In 2007, the named her recital with pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi one of the Top Ten Arts Events of the year.

Her students regularly win competitions, awards and scholarships. Marcia holds the Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she studied with James Buswell and served as his teaching assistant. She also holds Master of Music and Bachelor degrees in performance with highest honors from Ohio University, where she studied with Howard Beebe, She studied chamber music with Eugene Lehner, Robert Levin, Charles Treger, Joseph Silverstein, William Preucil, Samuel Sanders and Margo Garrett, among others.

Leslie Perna is a respected artist and teacher whose performances have been broadcast internationally on radio and television, including the ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings. She has presented solo and chamber music recitals in France, Germany, the Virgin Islands, Brazil, Canada, Boston, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Atlanta.

Leslie is currently violist of the Esterhazy Quartet and professor of viola at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Previously, she and cellist Darry Dolezal performed together in a quartet selected as one of the ten leading young string quartets in the world by the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Leslie has released CD recordings of chamber music for the Albany, Centaur, and CRI labels.

Frequently invited to present master classes at colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, Leslie has also directed chamber music programs in Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta, Maine, and Wisconsin. She has taught at the Tanglewood Institute, the University of Southern Maine, and Viterbo College.

Leslie earned her Master's Degree from Boston University and Bachelor's Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory. She studied chamber music at the Chautauqua and Blossom music festivals and with members of the Muir, Emerson, Cleveland, Vermeer, New World and Kolisch string quartets.

Darry Dolezal is a well-known performer in the U.S. and abroad. His solo and chamber music performances have been broadcast internationally on CBC radio and television in Canada, Netherlands Public Radio and TV Cultura in Brazil, as well as many public radio networks throughout the United States. Both his playing and teaching have been recognized with several awards, including a prestigious residency grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In addition to the standard solo and chamber music repertoire Darry enjoys performing modern music. He has presented the world premieres of more than one hundred works and has collaborated with numerous composers in the creation of new pieces. His recordings of contemporary music are available on Centaur Records, Albany Records, Capstone Records and CRI (through New World Records).

Darry earned degrees from the University of Kansas and the Peabody Conservatory. His principal teachers were Raymond Stuhl, Edward Laut and Yehudi Hanani. He studied chamber music with Eugene Lehner, Alexander Schneider, Leon Fleisher, Leonard Shure, Karen Tuttle and others, including members of the Juillard, Guarneri, American, Muir and Cleveland String Quartets. He currently resides in the Midwest, where he is cellist of the Esterhazy Quartet and teaches cello and chamber music at the University of Missouri-Columbia.