Meadowmount Trio Performing March 21
"Meadowmount Trio romances its fans. Both the design and the content of this program were intriguing. A warm hearted, intensely passionate performance." ~ The Buffalo News
Meadowmount Trio, a frequent contributor to National Public Radio hailed as “an ensemble of seamless rapport” by The Strad magazine, will perform at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Wednesday, March 21.
Meadowmount Trio appears as part of Music at Noon: The Logan Series. Its performance, which is free and open to the public, will be held at noon in the Reed Union Building’s McGarvey Commons.
In addition to being ensemble-in-residence at the Meadowmount School of Music, the legendary summer school in the Adirondack Mountains of New York founded by the master teacher-violinist Ivan Galamian, the trio has made multiple tours of U.S. and Russian concert halls. It has been broadcast live on Moscow Radio from Rachmaninoff Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, and was the first American chamber ensemble to record under a multiple-disc contract with Russian music labels.
“The Logan Series programming theme has a decidedly Latin flavor this year, but Meadowmount balances this with chamber music in the most traditional sense,” Daniel Barnard, series director and director of vocal music at Penn State Behrend, said. “Meadowmount made its name interpreting the works of Antonin Dvorak with a range of tone color and expression no one had attempted before. This season, they are adding Canadian composers to their repertoire, and I fully expect those works also will find new life in their experienced hands.”
Meadowmount’s pianist, Eric Larsen, has recorded and performed in the major concert halls of Russia, Europe, South America and the United States. With support from the Mary Duke Biddle and Andrew Mellon foundations, he has extensively researched the Edvard Grieg Manuscript Collection at the Bergan Bibliotek in Norway. He is a member of the faculties at the Meadowmount School, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and Italy’s Ilba International Piano Academy.
Gerardo Ribeiro, Meadowmount’s violinist, has been a featured soloist with major orchestras world-wide, and is a winner of multiple international competitions. He is a professor of violin at Northwestern University, and formerly taught at the Eastman School of Music. Ribeiro also served as artistic director of the International Chamber Music Institute in Munich.
Violoncellist Owen Carman is director of the Meadowmount School of Music. He has played as a guest artist with many notable ensembles, including the Julliard Quartet.
The Logan Series receives major support from the Kay Logan Trust with additional funding from the Erie Arts Endowment of the Arts Council of Erie, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Penn State Behrend Student Activity Fee, Pennsylvania Partners on the Arts, Wal-Mart, JazzErie, and Romolo Chocolates.
For more information about the series phone the Penn State Behrend School of Humanities and Social Sciences at 814-898-6108.