Immerse yourself in the passion of Slavic musical heritage performed by the Clavier Trio—Arkady Fomin, violin, Peter Steffens, cello, and David Korevaar, piano on Nov. 6 in the Jonsson Performance Hall. The concert features the work of the notable Czech musical dynasty, the Dvorak family, including works by Antonin Dvorak and his favorite student Joseph Suk, who became his son-in-law. The program concludes with a passionate Russian opus by Arensky which he dedicated to cellist Karl Davidoff.

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.