Fotograaf: Kees Schaaf

Pianotrio Stuart-Kluksdahl-Ivanov

woensdag 24 maart 2010, aanvang 20.15 uur
Toegang: € 12.50 (kortingsprijs € 10)

Carolyn Stuart, Scott Kluksdahl and Svetozar Ivanov enter a second decade of performing distinctive programs of solo, sonata and trio works together. They are particularly well respected in the United States for their devotion to the works of Robert Helps, Charles Ives, John Ireland, Viktor Chouchkov, and Nicolai Roslavets.

Together they regularly present concerts in New York, New England, Florida, and musical centers in Bulgaria, France, Italy, and Switzerland. They commissioned and premiered “Trio Concerto” by Victor Chouchkov with the Sofia Philharmonic, which they have also recorded with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra. Together they serve as Resident Artists for the Robert Helps International Composition Competition and Festival as well as the Rutenberg Chamber Music Festival and Competition.

Their musical interaction is also a didactic one, and they have coached and taught together at Vermont’s Killington and Green Mountain Festivals, the Bulgarian National Conservatory, and the University of South Florida where they have established a thriving center for the study of chamber music at the Master of Music level.

Bezetting
Carolyn Stuart – violin
Scott Kluksdahl – cello
Svetozar Ivanov – piano

Bio
Violinist Carolyn Stuart has been acclaimed as a performer of 'astonishing effectiveness, radiant inspiration, deep sensitivity, and colossal temperament' - Musical Horizons. She is a frequent performer at festivals, As an eloquent interpreter of modern music, Ms. Stuart avidly collaborates with current composers and has been a member of the celebrated new music ensemble Quorum. She has performed for the Cleveland Composers' Guild, the American New Arts Music Festival, and the International Alliance of Women in Music, and continues to serve as a Resident Artist for the annual Robert Helps Composition Competition and Festival.

She currently serves as Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Florida, Artist-Faculty at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont, and as chair and jury member for the Rutenberg International Chamber Music Festival and Competition. She has presented master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.Carolyn Stuart holds degrees from the Juilliard School, the University of Michigan, and from SUNY Stonybrook (DMA).

Cellist Scott Kluksdahl made his debut with The San Francisco Symphony, and has been heard since as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in major metropolitan centers throughout the United States, Europe, Israel and Latin America. Recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and prizes in the 1990 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition and the Washington International Competition, Scott Kluksdahl. His principal teachers were Margaret Rowell, Joel Krosnick, William Pleeth and Leonard Rose. A dedicated teacher, Scott Kluksdahl is the Theodore and Vennette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar at the University of South Florida and has served on the faculties of Vermont’s Killington Music Festival and California Summer Music. He has been an invited soloist and guest faculty member at Indiana University and, as a founding member of the Lions Gate Trio, was in residence at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Mr. Kluksdahl’s commitment to teaching prompted renowned cellist Zara Nelsova to remark, 'It is rare to find a cellist who is equally at home as a concert artist as well as a great pedagogue. In my opinion Scott Kluksdahl has one of the great talents of his generation.'

Pianist Svetozar Ivanov All Music Guide praised his two recent solo CD’s; the CD 'Naked Tango' was called 'superbly original, quite moving, personal and musically absorbing' while his CD 'Vers la flamme” was celebrated for performances which were 'played with aplomb, panache and complete conviction' and interpretation 'filled with sensual longing, anguished yearning, anxious dread and provocative energy'.
Svetozar Ivanov is Associate Professor of Piano at University of South Florida, serves as Artist Faculty at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont, and is the Artistic Director of the Steinway Piano Series at USF. He has served on juries for the Konzerteum International Piano Competition in Greece, the Seiler International Piano Competitions in Crete, the International Youth Music Festival and Competition in Bulgaria, and the Chautauqua Music Festival Piano Competition. Mr. Ivanov holds degrees from the Bulgarian National Conservatory and University of Michigan (DMA).

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