Date & Time: Saturday June 8, 7:30 p.m. Venue: Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1750 29th Avenue, San FranciscoTickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
For more information visit https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com/trio-foss/
Program
To be announced
About the Artists
Nina Flyer was a lecturer in cello and chamber music at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music from 1997 to 2017. While there she founded the New Pacific Trio, which subsequently became Trio 180. She was also a lecturer in Cello at Cal State East Bay and taught at the Reykjavik School of Music. She holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California and has also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music. Her major teachers include Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Vladmir Orloff and Frank Miller. Ms. Flyer has been principal cellist of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Bergen (Norway) Symphony, acting principal in the San Diego Symphony, and principal of the Women’s Philharmonic. She is currently principal cello of the Pacific Chamber Symphony. She performs on a regular basis with the San Francisco Symphony and records for the TV and Motion Picture Industry. Ms. Flyer is an active and touring solo and chamber music performer both in the U.S. and abroad. She has an established reputation for playing contemporary music and performs with Composer’s Inc. and the San Francisco Contemporary Players. She is featured on two CD’s that have been nominated for Grammys. One CD features a cello work by Shulamit Ran, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra, and the other CD includes two cello suites by Lou Harrison. The following quote is from Strings Magazine in 2001: ……….hauntingly beautiful performance………… (Lou Harrison CD review) Another of Ms. Flyer’s CD’s, featuring original and arranged works for cello and piano and narrated by David Ogden Stiers won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Best Audio of 2010 award. She recorded a piece called “Flyer”, for cello and orchestra, composed by Allan Crossman and dedicated to her, with the North/South Consonance in New York; the CD was released in 2008. Trio 180 came out with their first CD in the fall of 2015 which includes trios by Dvorak and Schumann. Ms. Flyer is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, American String Teachers Association, Chamber Music America, and Pi Kappa Lambda.
Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir studied in Berlin, Germany with professor Axel Gerhardt and professor Tomasz Tomaszewski. After finishing her studies, Hrabba worked as a freelancing violinist in Berlin for five years, regularly playing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. Hrabba also participated in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, and a Germany tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. Joshua Kosman, music critic of San Francisco Chronicle, praised her performance of Vivaldi’s “Spring”, and called her violin playing “delicate but fervent”.
In 2004, Hrabba moved to New York, playing on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among other orchestras. She also played with the Either/Or ensemble in NY in close collaboration with Helmut Lachenmann. Since August 2008, Hrabba is based in Berkeley, California, where she has been performing as a soloist and with various ensembles such as The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, The Empyrean Ensemble, the ECO ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and New Century Chamber Orchestra. Since 2009, Hrabba is a lecturer in Violin at UC Berkeley.
Cited by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a “local prodigy,” American born pianist Joseph Irrera has concertized across the globe with appearances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Spivey Hall, and Eastman’s Kodak and Kilbourn Halls. At the age of 18 he made his debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Additional concerto performances include appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Penfield Symphony, the Genesee Symphony Orchestra, and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors Christopher Seaman, Leonard Slatkin, Delta David Gier, and Raffaele Ponti. Internationally he has performed throughout Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, France, and Costa Rica.
In addition to his solo piano concert engagements, Joseph is also very active as a chamber musician appearing with his brother, violinist John. The internationally acclaimed Irrera Brothers Piano & Violin Duo has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and Central America. They made their Carnegie Hall Debut in 2009, and were invited back in 2012 and again in 2013. The Irrera Brothers are on the artist roster of New York City management firm, Parker Artists. As a recording artist Joseph can be heard on two albums with the Irrera Brothers Duo including “Beethoven & Prokofiev” (2012), and “Vitali” (2014) and has also recorded solo piano works of Scarlatti, Schumann, and Chopin with Steinway & Sons (2015). Joseph’s third album with the Irrera Brothers, currently in production, will feature the complete works for violin and piano by composer Robert Morris, Professor at the Eastman School of Music.
Joseph is laureate of many national and international piano competitions including the Guthman International Piano Competition in Atlanta, Georgia, the Young Artists International Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, and the American Protégé International Piano Competition in New York City. His principal teachers include Alla Kuznetsov, Alexander Shtarkman, and Barry Snyder. Joseph has also received additional training from renowned pedagogues Natalya Antonova, Martin Canin, Philip Kawin, Lev Natochenny, Marina Lomazov, Irina Edelstein, Victor Rosenbaum, and concert pianist Jon Nakamatsu.
Joseph received his diploma in Piano with Honors from the Eastman School of Music’s Community Education Division in 2000. He remained at the Eastman School where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Performance with Distinction in 2005. After his degrees at Eastman, Joseph was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Masters Degree in Piano Performance in 2007. He went on to complete the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 2014, at the Eastman School of Music in Piano Performance and Literature, with a minor in Pedagogy.
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For more information visit https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com/trio-foss/
Program
To be announced
About the Artists
Nina Flyer was a lecturer in cello and chamber music at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music from 1997 to 2017. While there she founded the New Pacific Trio, which subsequently became Trio 180. She was also a lecturer in Cello at Cal State East Bay and taught at the Reykjavik School of Music. She holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California and has also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music. Her major teachers include Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Vladmir Orloff and Frank Miller. Ms. Flyer has been principal cellist of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Bergen (Norway) Symphony, acting principal in the San Diego Symphony, and principal of the Women’s Philharmonic. She is currently principal cello of the Pacific Chamber Symphony. She performs on a regular basis with the San Francisco Symphony and records for the TV and Motion Picture Industry. Ms. Flyer is an active and touring solo and chamber music performer both in the U.S. and abroad. She has an established reputation for playing contemporary music and performs with Composer’s Inc. and the San Francisco Contemporary Players. She is featured on two CD’s that have been nominated for Grammys. One CD features a cello work by Shulamit Ran, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra, and the other CD includes two cello suites by Lou Harrison. The following quote is from Strings Magazine in 2001: ……….hauntingly beautiful performance………… (Lou Harrison CD review) Another of Ms. Flyer’s CD’s, featuring original and arranged works for cello and piano and narrated by David Ogden Stiers won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Best Audio of 2010 award. She recorded a piece called “Flyer”, for cello and orchestra, composed by Allan Crossman and dedicated to her, with the North/South Consonance in New York; the CD was released in 2008. Trio 180 came out with their first CD in the fall of 2015 which includes trios by Dvorak and Schumann. Ms. Flyer is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, American String Teachers Association, Chamber Music America, and Pi Kappa Lambda.
Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir studied in Berlin, Germany with professor Axel Gerhardt and professor Tomasz Tomaszewski. After finishing her studies, Hrabba worked as a freelancing violinist in Berlin for five years, regularly playing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. Hrabba also participated in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, and a Germany tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. Joshua Kosman, music critic of San Francisco Chronicle, praised her performance of Vivaldi’s “Spring”, and called her violin playing “delicate but fervent”.
In 2004, Hrabba moved to New York, playing on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among other orchestras. She also played with the Either/Or ensemble in NY in close collaboration with Helmut Lachenmann. Since August 2008, Hrabba is based in Berkeley, California, where she has been performing as a soloist and with various ensembles such as The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, The Empyrean Ensemble, the ECO ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and New Century Chamber Orchestra. Since 2009, Hrabba is a lecturer in Violin at UC Berkeley.
Cited by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a “local prodigy,” American born pianist Joseph Irrera has concertized across the globe with appearances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Spivey Hall, and Eastman’s Kodak and Kilbourn Halls. At the age of 18 he made his debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Additional concerto performances include appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Penfield Symphony, the Genesee Symphony Orchestra, and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors Christopher Seaman, Leonard Slatkin, Delta David Gier, and Raffaele Ponti. Internationally he has performed throughout Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, France, and Costa Rica.
In addition to his solo piano concert engagements, Joseph is also very active as a chamber musician appearing with his brother, violinist John. The internationally acclaimed Irrera Brothers Piano & Violin Duo has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and Central America. They made their Carnegie Hall Debut in 2009, and were invited back in 2012 and again in 2013. The Irrera Brothers are on the artist roster of New York City management firm, Parker Artists. As a recording artist Joseph can be heard on two albums with the Irrera Brothers Duo including “Beethoven & Prokofiev” (2012), and “Vitali” (2014) and has also recorded solo piano works of Scarlatti, Schumann, and Chopin with Steinway & Sons (2015). Joseph’s third album with the Irrera Brothers, currently in production, will feature the complete works for violin and piano by composer Robert Morris, Professor at the Eastman School of Music.
Joseph is laureate of many national and international piano competitions including the Guthman International Piano Competition in Atlanta, Georgia, the Young Artists International Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, and the American Protégé International Piano Competition in New York City. His principal teachers include Alla Kuznetsov, Alexander Shtarkman, and Barry Snyder. Joseph has also received additional training from renowned pedagogues Natalya Antonova, Martin Canin, Philip Kawin, Lev Natochenny, Marina Lomazov, Irina Edelstein, Victor Rosenbaum, and concert pianist Jon Nakamatsu.
Joseph received his diploma in Piano with Honors from the Eastman School of Music’s Community Education Division in 2000. He remained at the Eastman School where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Performance with Distinction in 2005. After his degrees at Eastman, Joseph was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Masters Degree in Piano Performance in 2007. He went on to complete the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 2014, at the Eastman School of Music in Piano Performance and Literature, with a minor in Pedagogy.
Date & Time: Saturday June 8, 7:30 p.m. Venue: Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1750 29th Avenue, San FranciscoTickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
For more information visit https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com/trio-foss/
Program
To be announced
About the Artists
Nina Flyer was a lecturer in cello and chamber music at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music from 1997 to 2017. While there she founded the New Pacific Trio, which subsequently became Trio 180. She was also a lecturer in Cello at Cal State East Bay and taught at the Reykjavik School of Music. She holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California and has also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music. Her major teachers include Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Vladmir Orloff and Frank Miller. Ms. Flyer has been principal cellist of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Bergen (Norway) Symphony, acting principal in the San Diego Symphony, and principal of the Women’s Philharmonic. She is currently principal cello of the Pacific Chamber Symphony. She performs on a regular basis with the San Francisco Symphony and records for the TV and Motion Picture Industry. Ms. Flyer is an active and touring solo and chamber music performer both in the U.S. and abroad. She has an established reputation for playing contemporary music and performs with Composer’s Inc. and the San Francisco Contemporary Players. She is featured on two CD’s that have been nominated for Grammys. One CD features a cello work by Shulamit Ran, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra, and the other CD includes two cello suites by Lou Harrison. The following quote is from Strings Magazine in 2001: ……….hauntingly beautiful performance………… (Lou Harrison CD review) Another of Ms. Flyer’s CD’s, featuring original and arranged works for cello and piano and narrated by David Ogden Stiers won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Best Audio of 2010 award. She recorded a piece called “Flyer”, for cello and orchestra, composed by Allan Crossman and dedicated to her, with the North/South Consonance in New York; the CD was released in 2008. Trio 180 came out with their first CD in the fall of 2015 which includes trios by Dvorak and Schumann. Ms. Flyer is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, American String Teachers Association, Chamber Music America, and Pi Kappa Lambda.
Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir studied in Berlin, Germany with professor Axel Gerhardt and professor Tomasz Tomaszewski. After finishing her studies, Hrabba worked as a freelancing violinist in Berlin for five years, regularly playing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. Hrabba also participated in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, and a Germany tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. Joshua Kosman, music critic of San Francisco Chronicle, praised her performance of Vivaldi’s “Spring”, and called her violin playing “delicate but fervent”.
In 2004, Hrabba moved to New York, playing on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among other orchestras. She also played with the Either/Or ensemble in NY in close collaboration with Helmut Lachenmann. Since August 2008, Hrabba is based in Berkeley, California, where she has been performing as a soloist and with various ensembles such as The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, The Empyrean Ensemble, the ECO ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and New Century Chamber Orchestra. Since 2009, Hrabba is a lecturer in Violin at UC Berkeley.
Cited by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a “local prodigy,” American born pianist Joseph Irrera has concertized across the globe with appearances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Spivey Hall, and Eastman’s Kodak and Kilbourn Halls. At the age of 18 he made his debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Additional concerto performances include appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Penfield Symphony, the Genesee Symphony Orchestra, and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors Christopher Seaman, Leonard Slatkin, Delta David Gier, and Raffaele Ponti. Internationally he has performed throughout Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, France, and Costa Rica.
In addition to his solo piano concert engagements, Joseph is also very active as a chamber musician appearing with his brother, violinist John. The internationally acclaimed Irrera Brothers Piano & Violin Duo has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and Central America. They made their Carnegie Hall Debut in 2009, and were invited back in 2012 and again in 2013. The Irrera Brothers are on the artist roster of New York City management firm, Parker Artists. As a recording artist Joseph can be heard on two albums with the Irrera Brothers Duo including “Beethoven & Prokofiev” (2012), and “Vitali” (2014) and has also recorded solo piano works of Scarlatti, Schumann, and Chopin with Steinway & Sons (2015). Joseph’s third album with the Irrera Brothers, currently in production, will feature the complete works for violin and piano by composer Robert Morris, Professor at the Eastman School of Music.
Joseph is laureate of many national and international piano competitions including the Guthman International Piano Competition in Atlanta, Georgia, the Young Artists International Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, and the American Protégé International Piano Competition in New York City. His principal teachers include Alla Kuznetsov, Alexander Shtarkman, and Barry Snyder. Joseph has also received additional training from renowned pedagogues Natalya Antonova, Martin Canin, Philip Kawin, Lev Natochenny, Marina Lomazov, Irina Edelstein, Victor Rosenbaum, and concert pianist Jon Nakamatsu.
Joseph received his diploma in Piano with Honors from the Eastman School of Music’s Community Education Division in 2000. He remained at the Eastman School where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Performance with Distinction in 2005. After his degrees at Eastman, Joseph was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Masters Degree in Piano Performance in 2007. He went on to complete the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 2014, at the Eastman School of Music in Piano Performance and Literature, with a minor in Pedagogy.
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For more information visit https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com/trio-foss/
Program
To be announced
About the Artists
Nina Flyer was a lecturer in cello and chamber music at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music from 1997 to 2017. While there she founded the New Pacific Trio, which subsequently became Trio 180. She was also a lecturer in Cello at Cal State East Bay and taught at the Reykjavik School of Music. She holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California and has also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music. Her major teachers include Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Vladmir Orloff and Frank Miller. Ms. Flyer has been principal cellist of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Bergen (Norway) Symphony, acting principal in the San Diego Symphony, and principal of the Women’s Philharmonic. She is currently principal cello of the Pacific Chamber Symphony. She performs on a regular basis with the San Francisco Symphony and records for the TV and Motion Picture Industry. Ms. Flyer is an active and touring solo and chamber music performer both in the U.S. and abroad. She has an established reputation for playing contemporary music and performs with Composer’s Inc. and the San Francisco Contemporary Players. She is featured on two CD’s that have been nominated for Grammys. One CD features a cello work by Shulamit Ran, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra, and the other CD includes two cello suites by Lou Harrison. The following quote is from Strings Magazine in 2001: ……….hauntingly beautiful performance………… (Lou Harrison CD review) Another of Ms. Flyer’s CD’s, featuring original and arranged works for cello and piano and narrated by David Ogden Stiers won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Best Audio of 2010 award. She recorded a piece called “Flyer”, for cello and orchestra, composed by Allan Crossman and dedicated to her, with the North/South Consonance in New York; the CD was released in 2008. Trio 180 came out with their first CD in the fall of 2015 which includes trios by Dvorak and Schumann. Ms. Flyer is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, American String Teachers Association, Chamber Music America, and Pi Kappa Lambda.
Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir studied in Berlin, Germany with professor Axel Gerhardt and professor Tomasz Tomaszewski. After finishing her studies, Hrabba worked as a freelancing violinist in Berlin for five years, regularly playing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Oper, and Deutsche Symphonieorchester. Hrabba also participated in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, and a Germany tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. Joshua Kosman, music critic of San Francisco Chronicle, praised her performance of Vivaldi’s “Spring”, and called her violin playing “delicate but fervent”.
In 2004, Hrabba moved to New York, playing on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among other orchestras. She also played with the Either/Or ensemble in NY in close collaboration with Helmut Lachenmann. Since August 2008, Hrabba is based in Berkeley, California, where she has been performing as a soloist and with various ensembles such as The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, The Empyrean Ensemble, the ECO ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and New Century Chamber Orchestra. Since 2009, Hrabba is a lecturer in Violin at UC Berkeley.
Cited by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a “local prodigy,” American born pianist Joseph Irrera has concertized across the globe with appearances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Spivey Hall, and Eastman’s Kodak and Kilbourn Halls. At the age of 18 he made his debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Additional concerto performances include appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Penfield Symphony, the Genesee Symphony Orchestra, and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors Christopher Seaman, Leonard Slatkin, Delta David Gier, and Raffaele Ponti. Internationally he has performed throughout Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, France, and Costa Rica.
In addition to his solo piano concert engagements, Joseph is also very active as a chamber musician appearing with his brother, violinist John. The internationally acclaimed Irrera Brothers Piano & Violin Duo has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and Central America. They made their Carnegie Hall Debut in 2009, and were invited back in 2012 and again in 2013. The Irrera Brothers are on the artist roster of New York City management firm, Parker Artists. As a recording artist Joseph can be heard on two albums with the Irrera Brothers Duo including “Beethoven & Prokofiev” (2012), and “Vitali” (2014) and has also recorded solo piano works of Scarlatti, Schumann, and Chopin with Steinway & Sons (2015). Joseph’s third album with the Irrera Brothers, currently in production, will feature the complete works for violin and piano by composer Robert Morris, Professor at the Eastman School of Music.
Joseph is laureate of many national and international piano competitions including the Guthman International Piano Competition in Atlanta, Georgia, the Young Artists International Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, and the American Protégé International Piano Competition in New York City. His principal teachers include Alla Kuznetsov, Alexander Shtarkman, and Barry Snyder. Joseph has also received additional training from renowned pedagogues Natalya Antonova, Martin Canin, Philip Kawin, Lev Natochenny, Marina Lomazov, Irina Edelstein, Victor Rosenbaum, and concert pianist Jon Nakamatsu.
Joseph received his diploma in Piano with Honors from the Eastman School of Music’s Community Education Division in 2000. He remained at the Eastman School where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Performance with Distinction in 2005. After his degrees at Eastman, Joseph was accepted to the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Masters Degree in Piano Performance in 2007. He went on to complete the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 2014, at the Eastman School of Music in Piano Performance and Literature, with a minor in Pedagogy.
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