Saturday Jan 20, Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard in New York City, the members of the Ahn Trio—sisters Maria, Lucia, and Angella—are redefining the art and architecture of chamber music, breathing new life into the standard piano trio literature with commissioned works from visionary composers like Pat Metheny, Kenji Bunch, Maurice Jarre, Nikolai Kapustin and Michael Nyman.
Lucia, Angella, and Maria thrive on dissolving the barriers between art forms. Possessing an enviable combination of talent and style, they have long been natural subjects for the international press.
Pianist Azusa Hokugo, who has concertized in Asia and the U. Additionally, she has participated as the 4th member of the Ahn Trio in chamber recitals alongside the Spokane, WA and Owensboro, KY symphony orchestras. Jessie Montgomery b. Exploding gestures are juxtaposed with gentle fleeting melodies in an attempt to create a multidimensional soundscape. During the Baroque era, the Concerto Grosso with its multiple—most often three—soloists, gradually gave way to the solo concerto.
The Archduke could command the services of violinist Ignaz Seidler and cellist Anton Kraft as fellow soloists, but a performance by the three never materialized. It is still seldom performed, but that is due more to its extravagant solo requirements than to any perceived lack of quality in the music itself.
The above notes, by former Symphony librarian Jeffrey M. Igor Stravinsky — Suite from Pulcinella. Impresario Sergei Diaghilev — set early 20 th -century Paris ablaze with his legendary Ballets Russes in Over the next 20 years he commissioned groundbreaking scores from many of the leading composers of the day, including Debussy, Ravel, Strauss, Falla, Prokofiev, and, most importantly, Igor Stravinsky.
