Tri-Institutional Noon Recitals
TRIO SOLISTI
Maria Bachmann - violin
Jon Klibonoff - piano
Alexis Pia Gerlach - cello
Robin Holland: photography |
FRIDAY, June 27, 2008 at NOON
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Trio Solisti
piano trio
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Comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists - violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff - Trio Solisti has earned a national reputation for its passionate, committed, and adventurous performances marked by exquisite individuality of expression and seamless ensemble playing. These qualities have drawn high praise from such journals as The New York Times (“...consistently brilliant....and compelling.”) and The Washington Post (“...zealous abandon in a transcendent performance.”). The Trio’s cutting edge verve and mastery across a wide spectrum of styles has garnered superlatives not often encountered in the piano trio genre. This versatility also extends to new music, most notably to the works of 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec. Other commissioned works for Trio Solisti include a work by one of America's most sought after young composers, Kevin Puts, who writes a work for Trio Solisti with guest clarinet to be premiered in 2012.
Trio Solisti's third CD, Pictures at an Exhibition, was released on Endeavour Classics in the fall of 2007. The disc includes Trio Solisti's own arrangement of Mussorgsky's monumental Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel's masterly Piano Trio in A minor. This CD prompted one of America's most notable critics, Terry Teachout of The Wall St. Journal, to proclaim, "...an ingenious arrangement of Mussorgsky's masterpiece...and a flawless performance of Ravel's luscious A Minor Piano Trio by the group that, to my mind, has now succeeded the Beaux Arts Trio as the outstanding chamber-music ensemble of its kind."
Trio Solisti has two new CDs scheduled for release in 2008: CAFE MUSIC, to be released in fall 2008, includes virtuosic and popular works by Piazzolla, Schoenfield, Turina and Gershwin; and in June 2008, the trio's world premiere recordings of John Anthony Lennon's Sirens and Paul Moravec's Passacaglia on the Bridge label as part the American Academy in Rome CD series.
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Previous recordings by Trio Solisti are an all-Brahms CD for Marquis Classics, and a CD of music by Paul Moravec on NAXOS American Classics. This release includes the world premiere recording of Moravec’s 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning work composed for Trio Solisti, Tempest Fantasy, with guest clarinetist David Krakauer. “Trio Solisti Explores Beethoven”, a documentary video, was released by Videos for Arts and Humanities (www.films.com) in 2003. Directed by Academy Award nominee Josh Aronson, the documentary traces Trio Solisti’s interpretive process in rehearsals and performances of Beethoven’s “Ghost” and “Archduke” trios.
Highlights of 2008 - 2009 include performances at The Kennedy Center (Dec. 2009) where they make their debut on the prestigious Fortas Chamber Series, at New York's Merkin Hall, and at numerous festivals including The Caramoor Festival, The Moab Festival in Utah, Maverick Concerts and Cooperstown Festivals in New York, Chappaquiddick Festival in Massachusetts, Grand Canyon Festival in Arizona, and Telluride MusicFest in Telluride, CO. Trio Solisti is the founding ensemble of Telluride MusicFest, which celebrates its' sixth anniversary in 2008.
Trio Solisti has made critically acclaimed debuts in New York City on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series and at Town Hall’s Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, at The Kennedy Center (for WPAS) in Washington, D.C., the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, and at the internationally renowned Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy. They have performed as guests of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, at Seattle's Meany Hall, La Jolla's Revelle series, Milwaukee Symphony's Pabst Series, Troy Chromatic Concerts, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, and have toured in Canada.
Trio Solisti has appeared on the nationally broadcast radio show “St. Paul Sunday” and has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” in numerous live performances from around the U.S. They have been presented in multi-concert series by New York’s famed Morgan Library and by the St. Louis Museum of Art. Trio Solisti has been ensemble-in-residence for six years at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. www.triosolisti.com
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Maria Bachmann
violin
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Hailed by The New York Times as "a violinist of soul and patrician refinement", Maria Bachmann has been a featured soloist around the world and has been profiled by Mirabella, Time Magazine, CD Review and New York Newsday as one of the premier artists of her generation. Ms. Bachmann has been honored by Musical America and New York Newsday as "Outstanding Artist of the Year". She has been soloist with Leonard Slatkin and The National Symphony at Kennedy Center, with The St. Louis Symphony, and she has performed recitals at Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, San Francisco's Herbst Theater, Merkin, Weill and Town Halls in New York, Boston's Jordan Hall, and at the Phillips Gallery and Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
An eminent proponent of contemporary music, several of America's most prominent composers including George Rochberg, Leon Kirchner, Paul Moravec, and Sebastian Currier have written works for her. Acclaimed the "most exciting young violinist around" by New York Daily News, her diverse recordings range from the Beethoven and Mendelssohn Concertos on BMG/Conifer, to Lou Harrison's Suite for Violin and String Orchestra on Koch International Classics. Ms. Bachmann has also recorded for Argo, CRI, and the Connoisseur Society.
Maria Bachmann studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian and Szymon Goldberg. She is on the faculty of Adelphi University in New York. She resides in New York City with her husband, Josh Aronson.
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Alexis Pia Gerlach
cello
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Cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach is active as a soloist and chamber musician, and has performed throughout the US, in Canada, Brazil, Israel, Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, France, India, China and Uzbekistan. She has collaborated as soloist with conductors including Mstislav Rostropovich, James DePreist, and Peter Oundjian, and has appeared as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, and at numerous festivals including Marlboro, Caramoor, Telluride MusicFest, Grand Canyon, Piccolo Spoleto and Aspen.
Ms. Gerlach's recordings of the Rachmaninoff and Franck Sonatas with pianist Fabio Bidini are released on the Encore Performance Recordings label. Recent solo performances include recitals at the La Jolla Chamber Music Society and the Caramoor Festival, concerto appearances with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and the Charleston and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras.
Ms. Gerlach studied with Nancy Streetman at the Manhattan School of Music Prep, Pierre Fournier at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genčve SA, Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory, and principally with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music and The Juilliard School. She resides in New York City with her husband, Charles Letourneau and their son, Tristan Peter.
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Jon Klibonoff
piano
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Jon Klibonoff has established a versatile career as orchestra soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. His many awards include the Silver Medal of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, the Affiliate Artists Xerox Pianists Award, the Pro Musicis Foundation Award, First Prize in the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, and a Solo Recitalists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Presently a member of Trio Solisti, Klibonoff has also appeared as guest artist to numerous chamber music groups including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Shanghai, Miami and Lark String Quartets. For three seasons, he was an artist-in-residence for the "On Air" radio series produced by WQXR classical radio in New York City.
In recital, Mr. Klibonoff has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the National Gallery, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Klibonoff can be heard frequently in collaboration with many instrumentalists including flutist Carol Wincenc, clarinetist David Shifrin, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.. His many orchestral appearances include the Baltimore, Utah, Buffalo, Denver, and North Carolina Symphonies. He has several CD recordings to his credit including two recordings of twentieth century violin and piano music with violinist Maria Bachmann on the BMG/Catalyst label. His most recent release is a recording of the Brahms Piano Trios with Trio Solisti on the Marquis Classics label and Music of Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec on Arabesque Recordings.
A graduate of The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, Klibonoff has been on the faculty of Hunter College and Concordia College and is currently a member of the faculty at SUNY Purchase College. He resides in Bronxville, New York with his wife, Amy and their two children, Madeleine and Noah.
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