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Monday, Sept. 26, 2011 – 7 p.m. Bader Recital HallTuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 – 7 p.m. Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

The Power of Three

Frank Almond, violinRobert deMaine, cello

Andrew Armstrong, piano

Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in g (1892) ..................Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Piano Trio (1988) ............................................ Ellen Taaffe ZwilichAllegro con brio (b. 1939)LentoPresto

Intermission

Piano Trio No. 1 in B, Op. 8 ................................Johannes BrahmsAllegro con brio (1833-1897)ScherzoAdagioAllegro

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FR ANK ALMOND

Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concert-master Chair at the Milwaukee Sympho-ny Orchestra. He

returned to the MSO after holding positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, and Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. He has also appeared as a guest concertmaster for the Seattle Sympho-ny, the Dallas Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, and the Grand Tetons Music Festival. He continues an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad including appearances with the Ojai Festival, the American String Project in Seattle, Frankly Music, the Nara Academy in Nara, Japan, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Music in the Vineyards, and various solo appearances with orchestras. He has been a member of the chamber group An die Musik in New York City since 1997, and also directs the highly successful Frankly Music Chamber Series based in Milwaukee. At 17, he was one of the youngest prizewinners in the history of the Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, and five years later was one of two American prizewinners at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was documented in an award-winning PBS film. Since then he has kept up an eclectic mix of activities in addition to his Concertmaster duties, appearing both as a soloist and chamber musician.

In addition to his work with An die Musik, Mr. Almond’s talent as a chamber musician has generated collaborations over the years with many of today’s well-known institutions, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln

Center, the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Ravinia Festival, the New World Symphony, La Jolla Summerfest, Music in the Vineyards, and numerous other summer festivals.

He has recorded for Summit, Albany, Boolean (his own label), Innova, New-port Classic, Wergo and New Albion and has appeared numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today. In both 2002 and 2004 An die Musik received Grammy nominations for its “Timeless Tales” series. The re-release of Mr. Almond’s recording of the complete Brahms Sonatas, performed in collaboration with pianist William Wolfram, brought extraordinary critical acclaim, and was listed in the American Record Guide top recordings of 2001.

Frank’s most recent CD with William Wolfram was released on the AVIE label to much acclaim, and was named a “Best of 2007” by the American Record Guide. His new CD of American violin and piano music was released in 2010 on Innova Recordings with pianist Brian Zeger, and has also received outstand-ing press response. A CD of selected works of Samuel Barber was recently released, in cooperation with the Hal Leonard Corporation.

Mr. Almond holds two degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Other important teachers included Michael Tseitlin, Felix Galimir, and Joseph Silverstein. In 2010 he joined the faculty at Northwestern University.

When he’s not traveling around play-ing the violin he lives in Milwaukee with his wife and two young daugh-ters. He plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1715, the “ex-Lipinski”. In 2008 he started writing an online column called nondivisi.

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ROBERT DEM AINE

Praised by The New York Times as “An artist who makes one hang on every note,” American virtuoso cellist Robert deMaine has distinguished

himself as one of the finest and versatile musicians of his generation, having performed worldwide to critical acclaim from Carnegie Hall to the Teatro Colon.

A first-prizewinner in many national and international competitions, Mr. deMaine became, in 1990, the first cel-list ever to win the Grand Prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. As soloist, he has collaborated with conductors Neeme Jarvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, among many others, and has performed virtually all of the major cello concerto repertoire with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he has been Principal Cellist since 2002. Mr. deMaine has also served as a guest principal in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Bergen Philhar-monic Orchestra.

Robert deMaine counts among his chamber-music partners violinists James Ehnes, Hilary Hahn, Ani and Ida Kavafian, pianists Andrew Armstrong,

Orion Weiss, and Yefim Bronfman, and has appeared at many international music festivals, including those of Marl-boro, Aspen, Heidelberg, San Miguel de Allende, Montreal, and Seattle. He is also the cellist of four newly-estab-lished chamber groups: The Chroma Piano Trio, Trio21, Icarus (Flute, Cello, Piano), and the Ehnes Quartet.

A dedicated teacher, Mr. deMaine has presented masterclasses throughout the U.S. and abroad, and is a regular guest of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach and the National Orches-tral Institute at the University of Mary-land. He has also taught at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan.

Also a composer, Robert deMaine has written many works for the cello, including Twelve Etudes-Caprices, which he performs regularly. Several important composers have written large-scale works for him, including Chris Theofanidis, Joel Eric Suben, and Jeffrey Mumford.

Soon to be released are two record-ings by deMaine on the Blue Griffin label: a recital disc featuring works by Rachmaninov, Faure, and Grieg with the pianist Andrew Armstrong, and the Haydn Cello Concertos with the Mora-vian Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Goldberg Variations(string trio)

November 28 and 29, 2011, 7PMBader Hall, WI Conservatory

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ANDREW AR MSTRONG

Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences around the world. He has performed solo recitals and appeared

with orchestras in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, including performanc-es at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic. He has performed with such conductors as Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and in chamber music with the Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi at the Caramoor International Music Festival, and as a member of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York City.

The 2011-12 season brings two new CD releases: Armstrong teams up with Grammy-award-winning violinist James Ehnes in a survey of Bartok’s sonatas and rhapsodies for violin and piano; and the Amelia Piano Trio, featuring violinist Anthea Kreston and cellist Jason Duckles, as well as Armstrong on piano present the trios of Tchaikovsky and Debussy. Armstrong performs this season across Canada and the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Netherlands with the fast-growing Elias String Quartet, and Spain.

In recent seasons, Armstrong has performed with major orchestras, including debuts with the Vancouver Symphony, Omaha Sympho-ny and San Antonio Symphony Armstrong, as well as in Mozart’s Concerto K.488 at the Chautauqua Music Festival under the direc-tion of Stefan Sanderling, before embracing Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with both the Fairfax Symphony (Gregory Vajda conduct-ing) and the Nashville Symphony under Günther Herbig. He also appeared with the Toledo, Fairfax, Augusta, Waukesha and Missoula symphonies, and overseas the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico.

2007/08 offered an array of engagements with the Florida Orchestra, Louisiana Philhar-monic, Boise Philharmonic, and the sympho-nies of Tallahassee, Charlottesville, Stamford, Harrisburg, Bellevue and Ridgefield, among others. Last summer, he shared the stage with Jennifer Frautschi and Edward Arron to perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Peter Oundjian

conducting. During the summer, he per-formed a pre-concert recital at the Mostly Mozart Festival.

During his 2006/07 season, Armstrong performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the the Charleston Symphony, Saint-Saëns’ 5th Piano Concerto with the Monterey Symphony in a return engagement, Prokofiev No. 3 with the Bridgeport Symphony, and Mozart’s A-major Concerto K. 488 in his debut with the Columbus Symphony under the baton of Günther Herbig. He also played two concertos at the Peninsula Music Festival (the Chopin F minor Concerto and Prokofiev No. 3 under V. Yampolsky) and Rachmaninov’s massive Concerto No. 3 with the Brevard Symphony, Florida. Earlier in 2006 he was the featured soloist with Naumburg Concerts at New York City’s Central Park (Mozart’s Con-certo K. 491). In 2004 he performed the World Premiere of Lisa Bielawa’s “The Right Weather” for piano solo and chamber orchestra with the American Composers Orchestra at the sold-out Carnegie Zankel Hall.

Having performed over 50 concertos, Armstrong has impressed his international audiences with a large repertoire ranging from Bach to Babbit and beyond. Before beginning his career as a concert pianist, Armstrong re-ceived over 25 national and international First Prizes. In 1996, he was named Gilmore Young Artist. At the 1993 Van Cliburn Competition, where he was the youngest pianist entered, he received the Jury Discretionary Award. The New York Times wrote, “Armstrong may have been the most talented player in the competi-tion....He’s a real musician. We’ll hear more from him.” As the Fort Worth Star-Telegram re-ported, Van Cliburn himself, “in a rare showing of enthusiasm for an individual competitor,” called Mr. Armstrong “Fabulous! Fabulous!”

Andrew Armstrong’s debut CD, featuring Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, was released in 2004 to critical acclaim. The critic Bradley Bolen opined: “I have heard few pianists play [Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata], recorded or in concert, with such dazzling clarity and confidence” (American Record Guide, Nov/Dec, 2004). His follow-up CD was issued in November 2007 on Corde-lia Records and includes works by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and the world premiere re-cording of Bielawa’s Wait for piano & drone.

Andrew Armstrong is devoted to outreach pro-grams and playing for children. In addition to his many concerts, his performances are heard regularly on National Public Radio and WQXR, New York City’s premier classical music station.

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