Interlude Concert
The Lions Gate Trio
The world-renowned Lions Gate Trio will perform at Chesapeake Chamber Music’s Fall Interlude Concert on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 8 p.m. at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. This will be the first Eastern Shore appearance by the Trio, composed of Katie Lansdale, violin; Florence Millet, piano, and its recently-announced new member, Marcy Rosen, cello. Rosen’s addition to the Trio is cheered as a bonus by her many fans on the Eastern Shore who, over the years, have become captivated by her musical virtuosity and her leadership as Artistic Co-Director of Chesapeake Chamber Music.
The Lions Gate Trio has thrilled American and European audiences since its founding at the Tanglewood Festival in 1988. The Trio brands standard repertory, complex modern repertory and lesser-known quality masterworks with its talent and passion. “Intrepid” is how one critic summed up the Trio’s ability to pursue tradition and frontier side-by-side and “communicate joy in music-making not only in technical brilliance but in an unbelievable playful lightness …”
The Trio members auspiciously pursue separate careers as soloists and teachers; as a group, the Lions Gate Trio explores not only the piano trio repertory, but duo, solo and expanded ensemble repertory. They have performed at concert halls and festivals through Europe and the United States, and are known to tens of thousands through their radio and television performances and recordings.
Twice awarded residencies at Tanglewood, the Lions Gate Trio has also been awarded residencies at Yale and the University of Hartford. Since 1997, the Trio has been designated the trio-in-residence at the University of Hartford.
To reserve your seats at this limited seating Interlude Concert, call Chesapeake Chamber Music at 410-819-0380 or email info@ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org. To hear the Lions Gate Trio’s music-making, click on http://home.napster.com/ns/music/artist.html?artist_id=12599393
The Brasil Guitar Duo
The Brasil Guitar Duo performed at the Spring 2009 Chesapeake Chamber Music Interlude Concert and Gala on Friday, March 13, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort in Cambridge, MD. For a captivated audience of 250 Gala-goers.
Winners of the 2006 Concerts Artists Guild International Competition, the Brasil Guitar Duo performed a concert of Brasilian classical music for the Gala audience. Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora met in Sao Paulo as guitar students, and have been performing together for more than 10 years, perfecting a sublime synchronicity and effortless performance style. With a full touring schedule on two continents, critically acclaimed recordings and innovative programming, the Duo has quickly emerged as one of the preeminent guitar duos of its generation.
Highlights of the Duo's 2008-2009 season include debut performances at the Lind Center of the University of Kansas, Purdue University Convocations and the Daytona Beach International Festival, along with a combined engagement of a recital at the CityFolk Festival in Dayton (OH) and concerto performances with the Dayton Philharmonic. In addition, the Duo perform recitals for the Classical Guitar Societies of St. Louis, Upstate New York and Dallas/Ft. Worth, as well as a Guitar Festival hosted by the Santa Barbara (CA) Symphony Orchestra.
This follows a busy summer 2008 with performances at the Grand Teton (WY) Music Festival, Stowe (VT) Summer Music Festival, Lancaster (OH) Festival, the Bermuda Guitar Festival, the Outreach Festival in Tirol (Austria) and Sao Paulo's Campos do Jordao International Festival. In addition, they performed with soprano Sarah Wolfson in a collaborative program at the Chautauqua (NY) Festival and the Cooperstown (NY) Chamber Music Festival.
For more information about the Brasil Guitar Duo, click on www.concertartists.org/brasil_bio.htm
The Gracieux Trio
The Gracieux Trio, one of the five international finalists in the March 2008 International Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, performed in the Fall 2008 Chesapeake Chamber Music Interlude Concert on Saturday, November 22, 2008, at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD.
The sold-out concert included works by Joseph Haydn, Paul Schoenfield and Maurice Ravel, and the Maryland premiere of Zhou Tian's Piano Trio. It featured the Ravel Piano Trio, and was followed by a Champagne Reception.
The Gracieux Trio was founded in New York in 2003, and has performed extensively on tour throughout the United States and Asia since then, including a Far Eastern Tour this past Spring. The Trio made its New York debut in 2004 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall to a sold-out performance and critical acclaim as winners of Artists International's Chamber Music Award.
The members of The Gracieux Trio are prize winners as individuals, as well as collectively. Japanese-born violinist Ryoko Arai won first prize at the Paranov Concerto Competition. Yuiko Arai, one of the greatest young cellists of Japan, was the first prize winner at the Toryumon Young Artists Competition and the Kanazawa Young Artists Audition. Taiwan-born Gloria Shih, pianist, has won the Taipei Piano Competition and the Schimmel Piano Competition.
For more information on The Gracieux Trio, click on www.chesapeakechambermusic.org or www.chieh.net/trio/
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