The Amici Chamber Ensemble has handpicked a choice of seldom carried out items for his or her subsequent live performance, aptly titled Hidden Treasures. This system options works by Babadjanian,Tajčević, Rota, Ravel and Arutiunian.
Violinist Chee-Yun joins Amici’s Inventive Administrators clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas, cellist David Hetherington and pianist Serouj Kradjian on April 13.
On this system:
- Marko Tajčević: Seven Balkan Dances for clarinet, cello and piano
- Nino Rota: Trio
- Maurice Ravel: Tzigane for violin and piano
- Arno Babadjanian: Piano Trio
- Alexander Arutiunian: Suite for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
The Music
Marko Tajčević: Seven Balkan Dances for clarinet, cello and piano (1973)
Serbian composer and musician Marko Tajčević (1900 to 1984) studied violin in Zegreb and Prague, then later in Vienna with Joseph Marx and Max Springer. He would full his research again in Serbia, and started his profession composing songs influenced by folks music. As a composer, he was recognized to work fairly slowly, leaving a legacy of 54 compositions for choir, chamber orchestra, solo voice, strings, woodwinds, and piano solo. Together with composing Tajcevic made a dwelling as a music critic and trainer. His Sedam balkanskih igara (Seven Balkan Dances) was championed by Arthur Rubinstein and different distinguished pianists, and is at present his finest recognized piece.
Nino Rota: Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano (1958)
Italian composer Nino Rota (1869 to 1937) was a former baby prodigy. He studied on the Milan Conservatory and the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, and for 2 years within the US on the Curtis Institute. He’s finest recognized for his movie scores, of which he wrote greater than 150, together with for films by Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti, and two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespearean movies. For North American audiences, he’s most likely most well-known for composing the music for the primary two movies of the long-lasting Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Finest Authentic Rating for The Godfather Half II in 1974. Alongside together with his movie output, he wrote ten operas, 5 ballets and plenty of orchestral, choral and chamber works. The flute was a favoured instrument, and his Trio was devoted to the Klemm-Cervera-Wolfensberger Trio, a German group.
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane for violin and piano (1924)
French composer Maurice Ravel (1875 to 1937) wrote his Tzigane for violin and piano, with an elective luthéal attachment. Ravel described it as “a virtuoso piece within the model of a Hungarian rhapsody” consisting of “a string of successive variations juxtaposed with out growth”. The piece was devoted to Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, who carried out its premiere on April 26, 1924. The luthéal was a comparatively new attachment for the piano that added tone-colours through a system of pulling stops put in above the keyboard. It was first patented in 1919, and Ravel made use of one of many tone colors just like a cimbalom, becoming the Romani model of the music.
Arno Babadjanian: Piano Trio in f-sharp minor (1952)
Armenian-Soviet composer Arno Babadjanian (1921 to 1983) was born in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and whereas little recognized within the West, is a musical hero on that nation, and well-known in Russia. His precocious musical expertise was acknowledged at age 5, when composer Aram Khachaturian advisable he obtain formal coaching. Arno subsequently studied on the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, after which in Moscow. His Piano Trio is taken into account one in all his most vital compositions, written in three actions that permit every instrument to shine. It was successful from its premiere, and he toured it all through the then Soviet Union and Europe.
Alexander Arutiunian: Suite for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano (1992)
Soviet-Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian (1920 to 2012) was additionally a pianist and professor at Yerevan State Conservatory, within the metropolis the place he was born. At seven, he grew to become a member of the Yerevan State Conservatory’s youngsters group, starting formal research on the age of 14. He graduated simply in time for WWII to start. After the conflict, he studied in Moscow, however returned to Yerevan after finishing his diploma. He was appointed creative director of the Armenian State Philharmony in 1954. Arutiunian gained many prizes for his work, which incorporates chamber, choral, symphonic and likewise pop music. The Suite for violin, clarinet, and piano was commissioned by the American Verdehr Trio, though Arutiunian composed it in Erevan, Armenia.
Visitor Musician
Chee-Yun, violin
A local of Seoul, South Korea, Chee-Yun first took the stage in Korea on the age of eight after profitable the Grand Prize of the Korean Instances Competitors. She went on to review at The Juilliard Faculty as a young person. In 1989, she gained the Younger Live performance Artists Susan Wadsworth Worldwide Auditions, which bounce began her profession with a Carnegie Corridor debut.
She has since carried out throughout the USA and Asia, together with a tour with the San Francisco Symphony underneath Michael Tilson Thomas, and a live performance with the Seoul Philharmonic performed by Myung-Whun Chung that was broadcast on nationwide tv. She has labored with among the world’s most famed conductors, together with Krzysztof Penderecki, Neeme Järvi, Pinchas Zukerman, and plenty of others.
Her busy profession contains engagements as a recitalist, educator, and as a recording artist on the Denon label.
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