CLAVIER TRIO
Arkady Fomin, violin
Peter Steffens, cello
David Korevaar, piano
The Clavier Trio performs
one of the most popular chamber music works,
Piano Trio in B Flat, by Austrian
composer Frank Schubert. The second half
of the program features work by Czech Joseph
Suk, beloved student of Antonin Dvorak,
who fell in love with Dvorak’s daughter
and never left the family. The program finale
will feature Piano Trio by one
of the most colorful composers of the 20th
Century, Maurice Ravel.
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.
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.
Peter Steffens,
cellist, a member of the Dallas Symphony
since 1995, is a graduate of the University
of Wisconsin/Madison. He soloed in high
school with the Madison and Milwaukee Symphonies,
and has had master classes with Zara Nelsova,
Ronald Leonard, David Finckel, Laurence
Lesser, Raya Garbousova, Lazlo Varga, and
summer study with Gabor Rejto. From 1988-90
he was the principal cellist of the New
World Symphony in Miami where he performed
chamber music with top artists including
pianist Jeffrey Kahane, conductor Leon Kirchner,
former Chicago Symphony Concertmaster Reuben
Gonzalez and San Francisco Symphony conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas. From 1990-95 he was
the principal cellist and soloist with the
Charleston SC Symphony Orchestra. At the
College of Charleston he was an adjunct
faculty member and cellist of the Quartet
in Residence, and played 20th century chamber
music for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
He has performed extensively at the Garth
Newel Chamber Music Festival, held during
summers in the Allegheny mountains of Virginia. |
