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Program
Debussy
Piano Tio in G
Beethoven
Variations on "Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu",
Op. 121a
Intermission
Brahms
Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87
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About the Claremont Piano Trio
In the 2006-07 season, the Claremont Trio, hailed as "deft,
exhilarating, and imaginative" by Strings Magazine, embarks
on a concert tour throughout every region of the U.S. First
recipients of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio
Award, the Claremonts (Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin,
'cello; Donna Kwong, piano) generate enthusiastic acclaim
wherever they perform. The Naples Daily News calls them "the
freshest breath of air in the world of chamber music today".
The season begins with the final installment of the
Claremont Trio's cycle of Beethoven's complete works for piano
trio at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The Trio
also will perform at the La Jolla Music Society, the
Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the Los Alamos Concert
Association, the Des Moines Art Center, Worcester's Mechanics
Hall, and many other venues nationwide throughout the year. They
will tour with guest violist, Ida Kavafian, and play the
Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra.
Claremont programs offer a refreshing blend of standard
repertoire and new music, highlighting the works not only of
Mozart, Beethoven, and Dvorák but of such composers as
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Leon Kirchner, Paul Schoenfield, and Mason
Bates. The Claremonts, whose reading of the Shostakovich Trio
No. 2 was described by the Los Angeles Times as "an
inspiring, forceful performance", celebrate the 100th
anniversary of this composer's birth with the release of a
recording of both his piano trios coupled with Arensky's Trio in
D minor, Op.32.
The group's 2005-06 season featured performances at
Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, FL, the
Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Competition in
Kalamazoo, MI, the University of Maryland, the University of
Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and with the
chamber music societies of Detroit, Utica, Kansas City,
Louisville and Sedona. Other season highlights included a
19-city tour of the Midwest and West and performances of a
special double trio program presented with the
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. The Claremont Trio's season
finale performance for the New York Prism Concerts at Central
Synagogue was received enthusiastically by the New York Times.
In addition, the trio conducted educational residencies in
Detroit, Seattle, and Sedona. T
he Claremont Trio's 2004-2005 touring schedule included
concerts at New York's Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert
Hall, the Detroit Chamber Music Society, the Cincinnati Chamber
Music Society, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West
Palm Beach, FL, the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase, and
the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, CA. The
Trio debuted at Wolf Trap and received the Wolf Trap
Foundation's Debut Artist Award. The Guggenheim Museum featured
the Trio in its Works and Process series in a performance of
Mason Bates' String Band, written for the Trio in 2002.
Highlights of previous seasons include performances in the
concert series at the American Academy in Rome; concerts in
Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln
Center; and a collaboration with Peter Martins, director of the
New York City Ballet, on a ballet based on Café Music by
Paul Schoenfield. The Trio also has appeared at the UCLA Center
for the Performing Arts, Columbia University's Miller Theater,
the Harvard Musical Association in Boston, the Dame Myra Hess
Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and in the British and U.S.
Virgin Islands. In 2002, the Claremont Trio traveled to Serbia,
Bosnia, and Slovenia as part of a cultural exchange co-sponsored
by the U.S. State Department and Carnegie Hall.
During recent summers the Claremont Trio has appeared at
the Mostly Mozart, Caramoor, Ravinia, Bard, Norfolk, Moab, Deer
Valley, Cape Cod Chamber Music, and Great Lakes Festivals. The
Trio frequently performs the Beethoven Triple Concerto with
orchestras such as the Utah Symphony, the Virginia Symphony, and
the Pacific Symphony. It has also performed with many
distinguished guest artists including Toby Appel, Joseph
Kalichstein, Martha Katz, Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian, Nokuthula
Ngwenyama, Sharon Robinson, and Richard Young. The group's
mentors have included Isaac Stern and Robert McDonald.
The Claremont Trio's debut CD of Mendelssohn trios was
released on the Arabesque label in 2004 to enthusiastic critical
acclaim. Gramophone magazine praised the disc for giving "large-scale
performances with a sweeping, romantic sense of space and strong
dramatic contrasts," while Strings celebrated the Trio's
ability to "find a cool equilibrium between industry and
frivolity where an elegant, totally Mendelssohnian sexiness
resides." The Claremont Trio has been featured on both
Japanese and American television, and also is heard frequently
in interviews on radio stations throughout the U.S. and abroad,
including Australia's ABC, New York's WQXR, Boston's WGBH,
Chicago's WFMT, Salt Lake City's KBYU, and Columbia University's
WKCR.
Deeply committed to expanding the piano trio repertoire,
the group has commissioned and premiered compositions by Daniel
Kellogg, Mason Bates, and Hillary Zipper. The Trio is also
extensively involved in music education and has been recognized
for its engaging and interactive programs for students of all
ages.
Twin sisters Emily Bruskin and Julia Bruskin formed the
Trio with Donna Kwong in 1999 at The Juilliard School. After
winning the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions,
the Claremont Trio launched their touring career with an
acclaimed New York debut at the 92nd Street Y. The Claremonts
are based in New York City near their namesake: Claremont
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