Wednesday, 2007 December 26th, 6 PM
Museum of the history of Riga and navigation
CLAVIER TRIO (piano trio, USA)
Arkady Fomin (violin)
Jesús Castro-Balbi (cello)
David Korevaar (piano)
Program: Beethoven, Ravel, Tchaikovsky
Clavier Trio was born after a spontaneous chamber music session at the 1997 Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado. The present members of the Trio are violinist Arkady Fomin, cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi, and pianist David Korevaar.
The Trio performed in the inaugural Dallas Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Clavier Trio has played to critical acclaim at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and returns with two performances in the 2007-08 Season as well as an appearance at the celebrated BARGEMUSIC concert series in New York City.
Clavier Trio served as the Trio-In-Residence at Fort Lewis College, Colorado and presently is Ensemble-in-Residence at The University of Texas at Dallas. In the 2007-2008 concert season the ensemble will present a World Premiere in New York and Dallas of a composition written for them by distinguished American composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez.
Clavier Trio has recorded several CDs - “Live Performance”, “Schubert and Café Music”, “Glory and Passion” - with trios by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Suk, Shchedrin and Kreisler. The Trio has been featured on radio broadcasts in the USA and worldwide. During the summer months Clavier Trio performs at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango where its members teach and conduct Master Classes.
