Saturday: 1:45 p.m. Two Rivers; Sunday: noon Heritage

The Volskaya Russian Trio, which is about to mark its fifth anniversary as an ensemble, is composed of Tamara Volskaya on domra, Anatoliy Trofimov on bayan and Leonid Bruk on bass balalaika. The group performs a blend of music that draws from Russian folk and Eastern European traditions as well as classical and contemporary music.

Performing alongside her husband, Anatoliy Trofimov, Tamara Volskaya is among the most celebrated musicians in her native Ukraine. Their performances of Russian and Ukrainian folk music and classical arrangements are, in the words of Japanese critic Masatoshi Ueno, “spellbinding for all those in the concert hall.”

Volskaya’s domra – a plucked four-stringed instrument in the mandolin family – and Trofimov’s bayan, or accordion, skills are finely honed. They perform together and also direct the Russian Carnival Ensemble, an aggregation of Russian and Ukrainian musicians in the New York area. Leonid Bruk joins Volskaya and Trofimov to round out the Russian trio. A graduate of music schools in St. Petersburg, he plays the bass balalaika, a large, triangular-shaped, lutelike instrument. Bruk also performs with his wife, Russian singer Irina Zagornova.

Residents of the United States since 1996, Volskaya and Trofimov are former professors of folk instruments at the Mussorgsky State Conservatory in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and winners of several major competitions. Awarded the title Honored Artists of Russia, Volskaya and Trofimov have toured throughout the former Soviet Union and Canada, Finland, Australia, Japan and Spain, giving concerts, conducting master classes and recording a repertoire that ranges from classical to jazz to folk, specializing in Russian and Jewish music.

A respected authority in her field, Volskaya has written several scholarly works on the domra. She and Trofimov are the subject of “Tamara Volskaya and Anatoliy Trofimov Perform” (Yekaterinburg Press). The couple live in Brooklyn with their two daughters.