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PARMA Recordings Presents: Trio Casals Featuring Ovidiu Marinescu, Cello|| May 12, 2015 8:00pm|Weill Recital Hall Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
(New York, NY) – Internationally-acclaimed Romanian cellist Ovidiu Marinescu returns to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for an eclectic evening of solo cello and piano trio world premieres by composers Nicholas Anthony Ascioti, John A. Carollo, Diane Jones, Brian Noyes, Osias Wilenski, and Robert Fleisher (New York City premiere). Marinescu will be joined by his colleagues in Trio Casals, violinist Sylvia Ahramjian and pianist Anna Kislitsyna, with whom he recorded these works for the upcoming summer 2015 Navona Records release MOTO CONTINUO.
The event is a follow-up to the fall 2013 Weill Recital Hall concert of ten contemporary pieces intimately performed by Ovidiu Marinescu, supported by flute, violin, viola, double bass, and piano. This previous concert featured works by composers Nicholas Anthony Ascioti, Greg Bartholomew, Alan Beeler, Arthur Gottschalk, Andrew March, and Bill Sherrill. The collection of moving works for cello was released on Navona Records’ album MOTO PERPETUO (2013).
Trio Casals
Since making a highly acclaimed debut at the 1996 edition of the Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Trio Casals – cellist Ovidiu Marinescu, violinist Sylvia Ahramjian, and pianist Anna Kislitsyna – have delighted audiences with spectacular virtuosity, engaging enthusiasm, and exquisite musical elegance. They have performed in the Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Holywell Room in Oxford, England, and at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and have toured China and Romania.
Trio Casals has created original programs that juxtapose the great classical tradition of Beethoven and Brahms with new works written by American composers, such as Paul Schoenfield, Michael Kurek, George Rochberg, and Hilary Tann. Several distinguished composers such as Brian Noyes, Osias Wilenski, Diane Jones, and Nicholas Anthony Ascioti, have written trios for the group.
In addition to its performing schedule, Trio Casals is committed to music education, offering regular master classes at schools and colleges. As resident artists for Music for All Seasons, its members have played in shelters for victims of domestic abuse, nursing homes, and hospitals. All three members have a distinguished career as soloists.
Ovidiu Marinescu
Ovidiu Marinescu, one of the outstanding musicians of his native Romania, was chosen to play at Carnegie Hall for Romanian President Constantinescu on an official visit to the United States. He has performed with a number of orchestras, including the New York Chamber Symphony, the Bucharest Symphony, the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Limeira Symphony in Brazil, and the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, in recitals in Merkin Hall (New York City), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Romania, Spain, and many more.
His critically acclaimed first recording Fiesta Latina was followed by a recording of the complete Miaskovsky cello works with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Kenneth Boulton, released by Cambria. His recording of the Bach Cello Suites, released by Navona Records, has received international critical acclaim. The recent recording of Arthur Gottschalk’s Sonata for Cello and Piano received a Gold Medal from the Global Music Awards in 2014. Marinescu has commissioned and performed many new works for cello solo, among which are those of his brother, Liviu Marinescu, Jae-Wook Kim, Hilary Tann, and Kile Smith.
Equally outstanding as a conductor, Marinescu is the Director of the West Chester University Symphony, and served as the conductor for the Wilmington Orchestra, as the Music Director of the Manalapan Orchestra in New Jersey, and Principal Conductor of the Goppisberg Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. His guest conducting includes the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow, National Radio Orchestra of Romania, and orchestras from Spain, Portugal, and Romania.
The Composers
Nicholas Anthony Ascioti’s catalog consists primarily of works that include voice and chorus, however he has written a few chamber works. His modal and atonal approach to music are the elements that make up his compositional voice. John A. Carollo lives in a resort on the Big Island of Hawaii where he composes full-time, rides his turbo bike and collects art, especially the works of Edward Gorey, a life-time hobby. Carollo’s musical works have been performed in various venues and at a number of festivals in Hawaii and abroad. Robert Fleisher, native New Yorker and High School of Music & Art alum, composes acoustic and electro-acoustic music that has been heard globally and throughout the United States. The author of Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture (1997), he is also a contributing composer and essayist in Theresa Sauer's Notations 21 (2009).
Diane Jones takes her inspiration from the open spaces surrounding her Central New York homestead. Her interwoven lines and rhythms carry her audiences along as her compositions tell their stories. Welsh composer Brian Noyes' new piano trio, written specially for Trio Casals and this concert, references the masterful chamber ensemble piece Ave Maris Stella by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. His concern for musical craftsmanship and art in composition is clearly demonstrated in this new Piano Trio Op. 38, which exhibits a balanced and structured time scale at the service of foreground gestures to produce a dynamic, exciting, and expressive, contemporary ensemble piece. After feeling unsatisfied with the results of his previous work, composer Osias Wilenski decided to start over 20 years ago and began writing music frantically, not having stopped since. Believing that creation only justifies life, he has written more than 50 works, including 3 operas.
Tickets
Tickets are $25 for general admission and $12 for students. Tickets can be purchased at the Carnegie Hall box office at 154 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019, online at www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/5/12/0800/PM/Trio-Casals-Ovidiu-Marinescu-Cello or by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800.
The event is a follow-up to the fall 2013 Weill Recital Hall concert of ten contemporary pieces intimately performed by Ovidiu Marinescu, supported by flute, violin, viola, double bass, and piano. This previous concert featured works by composers Nicholas Anthony Ascioti, Greg Bartholomew, Alan Beeler, Arthur Gottschalk, Andrew March, and Bill Sherrill. The collection of moving works for cello was released on Navona Records’ album MOTO PERPETUO (2013).
Trio Casals
Since making a highly acclaimed debut at the 1996 edition of the Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Trio Casals – cellist Ovidiu Marinescu, violinist Sylvia Ahramjian, and pianist Anna Kislitsyna – have delighted audiences with spectacular virtuosity, engaging enthusiasm, and exquisite musical elegance. They have performed in the Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Holywell Room in Oxford, England, and at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and have toured China and Romania.
Trio Casals has created original programs that juxtapose the great classical tradition of Beethoven and Brahms with new works written by American composers, such as Paul Schoenfield, Michael Kurek, George Rochberg, and Hilary Tann. Several distinguished composers such as Brian Noyes, Osias Wilenski, Diane Jones, and Nicholas Anthony Ascioti, have written trios for the group.
In addition to its performing schedule, Trio Casals is committed to music education, offering regular master classes at schools and colleges. As resident artists for Music for All Seasons, its members have played in shelters for victims of domestic abuse, nursing homes, and hospitals. All three members have a distinguished career as soloists.
Ovidiu Marinescu
Ovidiu Marinescu, one of the outstanding musicians of his native Romania, was chosen to play at Carnegie Hall for Romanian President Constantinescu on an official visit to the United States. He has performed with a number of orchestras, including the New York Chamber Symphony, the Bucharest Symphony, the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Limeira Symphony in Brazil, and the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, in recitals in Merkin Hall (New York City), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Romania, Spain, and many more.
His critically acclaimed first recording Fiesta Latina was followed by a recording of the complete Miaskovsky cello works with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Kenneth Boulton, released by Cambria. His recording of the Bach Cello Suites, released by Navona Records, has received international critical acclaim. The recent recording of Arthur Gottschalk’s Sonata for Cello and Piano received a Gold Medal from the Global Music Awards in 2014. Marinescu has commissioned and performed many new works for cello solo, among which are those of his brother, Liviu Marinescu, Jae-Wook Kim, Hilary Tann, and Kile Smith.
Equally outstanding as a conductor, Marinescu is the Director of the West Chester University Symphony, and served as the conductor for the Wilmington Orchestra, as the Music Director of the Manalapan Orchestra in New Jersey, and Principal Conductor of the Goppisberg Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. His guest conducting includes the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow, National Radio Orchestra of Romania, and orchestras from Spain, Portugal, and Romania.
The Composers
Nicholas Anthony Ascioti’s catalog consists primarily of works that include voice and chorus, however he has written a few chamber works. His modal and atonal approach to music are the elements that make up his compositional voice. John A. Carollo lives in a resort on the Big Island of Hawaii where he composes full-time, rides his turbo bike and collects art, especially the works of Edward Gorey, a life-time hobby. Carollo’s musical works have been performed in various venues and at a number of festivals in Hawaii and abroad. Robert Fleisher, native New Yorker and High School of Music & Art alum, composes acoustic and electro-acoustic music that has been heard globally and throughout the United States. The author of Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture (1997), he is also a contributing composer and essayist in Theresa Sauer's Notations 21 (2009).
Diane Jones takes her inspiration from the open spaces surrounding her Central New York homestead. Her interwoven lines and rhythms carry her audiences along as her compositions tell their stories. Welsh composer Brian Noyes' new piano trio, written specially for Trio Casals and this concert, references the masterful chamber ensemble piece Ave Maris Stella by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. His concern for musical craftsmanship and art in composition is clearly demonstrated in this new Piano Trio Op. 38, which exhibits a balanced and structured time scale at the service of foreground gestures to produce a dynamic, exciting, and expressive, contemporary ensemble piece. After feeling unsatisfied with the results of his previous work, composer Osias Wilenski decided to start over 20 years ago and began writing music frantically, not having stopped since. Believing that creation only justifies life, he has written more than 50 works, including 3 operas.
Tickets
Tickets are $25 for general admission and $12 for students. Tickets can be purchased at the Carnegie Hall box office at 154 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019, online at www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/5/12/0800/PM/Trio-Casals-Ovidiu-Marinescu-Cello or by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800.
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