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ADVANCED PIANO TRIO PROGRAM GALA CONCERT Friday, December 8, 2017 7pm | Mixon Hall Sharon Robinson, director Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101 Allegro energico Presto non assai Andante grazioso Allegro molto Trio Sintra Nikolay Pushkarev, piano Kiarra Saito-Beckman, violin Sarah Miller, cello
Bedřich Smetana (1824-84)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 Moderato assai Allegro, ma non agitato Finale: Presto Arius Trio Sichen Ma, piano Isabelle Durrenberger, violin William Cayanan, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 2 Poco Sostenuto — Allegro ma non troppo Allegretto Allegretto ma non troppo Finale: Allegro Medárd Trio Lin Ye, piano Kyle Gilner, violin Vincent Leung, cello
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 Moderato assai Andante con moto: Variations e Finale Trio Troika Jonathan Mak, piano James Thompson, violin Richard Li, cello
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS Trio Sintra NIKOLAY PUSHKAREV, piano, is an undergraduate student from Kiev, Ukraine, and studies with Sergei Babayan. KIARRA SAITO-BECKMAN, violin, is an undergraduate student from Bend, Oregon, and studies with Jaime Laredo and Jan Sloman.
SARAH MILLER, cello, is an undergraduate student from Bayville, New York, and studies with Melissa Kraut. Arius Trio SICHEN MA, piano, is a master’s student from Berlin, Germany, and studies with Anita Pontremoli. ISABELLE DURRENBERGER, violin, is an undergraduate student from Columbus, Ohio, and studies with Jaime Laredo and Jinjoo Cho. WILLIAM CAYANAN, cello, is an undergraduate student from San Leandro, California, and studies with Melissa Kraut. Medárd Trio LIN YE, piano, is an artist diploma student from Dalian, China, and studies with Antonio Pompa-Baldi. KYLE GILNER, violin, is a professional studies student from Los Angeles, California, and studies with William Preucil. VINCENT LEUNG, cello, is a master’s student from Hong Kong, and studies with Sharon Robinson. Trio Troika JONATHAN MAK, piano, is an undergraduate student from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, and studies with Daniel Shapiro. JAMES THOMPSON, violin, is a master’s student from Cleveland, Ohio, and studies with Jaime Laredo. RICHARD LI, cello, is an undergraduate student from Bolingbrook, Illinois, and studies with Mark Kosower.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Winner of the Avery Fisher Recital Award, the Piatigorsky Memorial Award, the Pro Musicis Award and a GRAMMY Nominee, cellist SHARON ROBINSON is recognized worldwide as a consummate artist and one of the most outstanding musicians of our time. Whether as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra or member of the world-famous Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, critics, audiences and fellow musicians respond to what the Indianapolis Star has called “A cellist who has simply been given the soul of Caruso.” Her guest appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, National, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco Symphonies, and in Europe, the London Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Zürich’s Tonhalle Orchestra and the English, Scottish and Franz Lizst Chamber Orchestras. Recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from the state of Vermont, Sharon Robinson divides her time between teaching, solo engagements, performing with her husband, violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, and touring with the Kalichstein-LaredoRobinson Trio. In 2012, she started teaching on the renowned instrumental and chamber music faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She taught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University from 2005-12. Highly sought after for her dynamic master classes, she brings insight to her teaching from the rare combination of her lifetime experiences as a member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Ciompi String Quartet of Duke University, the Kalichstein-LaredoRobinson Trio, plus countless solo recitals and concerto performances. Committed to the music of our time, Robinson works closely with many of today’s leading composers, including Ned Rorem, Leon Kirchner, Arvo Pärt, Stanley Silverman, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Joan Tower, David Ludwig, Katherine Hoover, Richard Danielpour and André Previn. She is admired for consortium building, putting together multiple presenters as co-commissioners of both chamber music works and concertos with orchestra. For the Kalichstein-LaredoRobinson Trio’s 35th anniversary, she gathered twelve presenters to commission Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Quintet, and for the 35th anniversary of her marriage to Jaime Laredo, she has compiled eight co-commissions for Richard Danielpour’s “Duets.” In 2015, Robinson established the Cleveland chapter of MUSIC FOR FOOD, which has raised funds to provide more than 3,000 meals for area residents.
