Series: Classical
Date: Monday, March 1
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: University Theatre

Ticket Prices:
$15 General Admission
$10 Non-UTD Students
$10 UTD Alumni
$5 Children under 18
$5 to UTD Faculty/Staff/Retirees
Free to UTD Students with UTD Photo ID at the venue box office the night of the event.

Arkady Fomin, violin, Barbara Thiem, cello, and David Korevaar, piano perform Brahms’ Variations on an Original Theme, Opus 21 #1, Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Opus 7, Martinu’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Bolcom’s Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Gershwin’s Short Story.

Arkady Fomin, violinist, was born in Riga, Latvia, where he received his musical training at the Latvian State Conservatory with legendary pedagogue, Voldemar Sturestep. As a chamber musician and soloist, Mr. Fomin has collaborated in performances with Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Borok, Schlomo Mintz, Atar Arad, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and the late Stephen DeGroot, among others. His active concert schedule has taken him to Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Austria, Japan, and throughout the United States including the critically acclaimed performance with the CLAVIER TRIO in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. In addition to his duties as a violinist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Fomin is founder and Artistic Director of the New Conservatory of Dallas, Artistic Director of the Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado, and Director of the Music Academy at Schloss Ort in Gmunden, Austria. In 2002, Mr. Fomin began his affiliation as Artist in Residency at Colorado State University. His association with University of Texas at Dallas has been long and distinguished. In 1980, he was honored as recipient of the Cowlishaw Artist-in-Residence Award at the University of Texas at Dallas for artistic achievement and contributions to the City of Dallas. Presently, Mr. Fomin is a member of the faculty and Artist in Residency at UTD.

Barbara Thiem, cellist, was born and raised in Germany where she trained with Siegfried Palm (Cologne), specialist in 20th century cello music. She came to the US for graduate studies in music with Janos Starker at Indiana University where she received a Master of music in cello performance and the coveted Performer’s Certificate. Ms. Thiem has held teaching positions at Iowa State University, the University of Texas at Dallas, several universities in Colorado, and, at present, is Adjunct Professor at the University of Wyoming and artist-in-residence at Colorado State University. Active as a soloist with orchestra and in recital and in chamber music, she has been a member of the Dallas Piano Trio and the Mendelssohn Trio. Her concerts and recordings have taken her all over Europe, the US, and Canada. She has produced CD’s of Bach’s solo suites, of cello and bass duos (with Gary Karr), of works by the 19th century composer Felix Draeseke (with Wolfgang Mueller-Steinbach) and of cello and organ music (with Robert Cavarra). Her publications include the translation of Gerhard Mantel’s Cello Technique, as well as several articles in the field of music and medicine. She makes her home in Fort Collins, Colorado, and spends summers with her family in Austria, where she is co-Director of the Music Academy at Schloss Ort in Gmunden, Austria.

David Korevaar, pianist, began studies at age six in San Diego with Sherman Storr, and at 13, became a student of Earl Wild, an American virtuoso. By age 20, he’d earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he continued working with Earl Wild and studied composition with David Diamond. He also earned a Doctor of Musical Arts at Juilliard with Abbey Simon and received the Richard French award honoring his Doctoral Document on Ravel’s Miroirs. Mr. Korevaar is a member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet and was founding member of Hexagon, a Young Concert Artists piano and wind group. He’s performed as guest artist with the Takacs, Manhattan, Lark, Colorado, Chester, and Shanghai Quartets and has presented recitals in New York and across the US as well as Australia, Japan, Korea, and Europe. Mr. Korevaar has commissioned and premiered new works, including recordings of George Rochberg, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Stephen Jaffe, Scott Eyerly, Libby Larson, and Lowell Liebermann. His solo recordings also include Bach’s complete Well-Tempered Clavier, works by Dohnanyi, and transcriptions of orchestral works by Liszt. Since August 2000, he’s been a member of the piano faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder.