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Oboe, bassoon, piano: 3 keys to beautiful music |
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
 The Baltimore-based Poulenc Trio, in the midst of its most ambitous season ever, will help the Bishop Community Concert Association close out its 2007-08 season with a live performance Monday in Bishop. Bishop Community Concert Association 3-13-2008
Members of the Eastern Sierra community have one last chance to savor a rare live performance of visiting, internationally-acclaimed musicians on the local stage.
For its final offering of the successful 2007-08 season, the Bishop Community Concert Association is hosting the Baltimore-based Poulenc Trio at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 17 at the Bishop Union High School Auditorium.
In honor of its close-out concert, the BCCA is offering a special deal on admission; non-members who purchase a 2008-09 membership may enjoy Monday’s concert at no extra charge.
According to the BCCA, it could not have chosen a better ensemble to perform its season’s swan song.
The Poulenc Trio chose its name (and mascot) after Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, whose musical wit and elegance suffuse his “Trio for Oboe Bassoon and Piano” (1926), perhaps the best known work for this instrumental combination.
The ensemble brings together three uniquely gifted virtuosos, oboist Vladimir Lande, bassoonist Bryan Young and pianist Irina Lande. Combining brilliant 21st-century vibrancy with the best of European instrumental tradition, the Poulenc Trio’s performances leap beyond the ordinary concert experience, transporting audiences into a world of beautiful sonorities, playful rhythms and dramatic excitement.
The ensemble’s precision and versatility heighten the lyricism of Poulenc, the virtuosity of Rossini, the wit of Jean Francaix and the jazzy elegance of Andre Previn. As the best of a select few professional wind trios, the Poulenc Trio is committed to expanding the repertoire through the discovery of old masterpieces and new works.
The Trio were recently the featured guest artists of Italy’s Ravello Festival, where they premiered two new compositions written specifically for the group. The new pieces, by Italian composer Gaetano Panariello and Russian-American composer Igor Raykhelson, add to the Trio’s growing catalog of new commissions, which include two recent works premiered with violinist Hilary Hahn and two new Triple Concertos with orchestra, premiered during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.
The Trio’s busy touring schedule has included recent tours of Russia with Hilary Hahn, Italy at the Ravello and Ville Vesuviane Festivals, the Islands of the Caribbean, and multiple appearances in every region of the United States. Highlights have included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Hermitage State Museum in Russia.
The 2007-08 season marks the Poulenc Trio’s most ambitious season ever. Highlights include a spotlight performance at the U.S. Performing Arts Exchange conference, collaborations with the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, a whistle-stop tour of the western United States and concerts in states all across the U.S., including California, Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin.
The Trio will also continue its wildly successful Music at the Museum series, begun in 2004 to sold-out performances at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and recently expanded to performances at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey. This innovative series, in which the Trio links musical and historical themes to current museum exhibitions, features the Trio in performances with guest artists, local celebrities and expert lecturers. Recent guest artists for the popular series have included clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, the Berlin-based Jacques Thibaud Trio, soprano Hyunah Yu and the National Gallery Chamber Players.
In the press, the Trio has garnered positive attention in recent full-length profiles by Chamber Music Magazine, and by the Double Reed Journal. The group has been called “virtuosos of classical and contemporary chamber music” in one profile for Russian television, and the group’s members have been repeatedly praised by the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and Fanfare Magazine.
For more information on the Poulenc Trio, visit www.poulenctrio.com.
For details about Monday’s concert, and season ticket prices, call Mary Mae Kilpatrick at (760) 873-6690.
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