Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music
at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
www.brooklynfriendsofchambermusic.org
For immediate release
January 19, 2010
Contact: Wanda Fleck
718.855.3053
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On Sunday, January 31, 2010, at 3 PM, Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music presents Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute and the Trio Cavatina with Harold Meltzer, narrator, in a concert at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church , 85 S. Oxford Street at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, four short blocks from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The program:
Schumann: Piano trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110
Meltzer: Sindbad, on a text by Donald Berthelme (2004)
Brahms: Piano trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87
The musicians:
Known for her deep musical and emotional commitment to a wide range of repertoire, Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute performs regularly in the US and Europe. Critics have described her as possessing "razor-sharp intelligence and wit"' (The Washington Post) and as "elegant and engaging" (The Wall Street Journal). Over the last seasons, Ieva made her Chicago Symphony debut at the Ravinia Festival with James Conlon and her Brazilian orchestral debut in Rio de Janeiro under the baton of Ligia Amadio. She has given solo recitals in Vilnius, Lithuania, on the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago, at Caspary Hall in New York, and at the Freer Gallery in Washington DC. A much sought-after chamber musician, Ieva Jokubaviciute recently appeared at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium and tours regularly with Musicians from Marlboro. Earning degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and from Mannes College of Music, her principal teachers have been Seymour Lipkin and Richard Goode.
Ieva's piano trio, Trio Cavatina, won the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition (2009) and made its New York City and Boston debuts in 2006. The trio appears annually at international music festivals including Marlboro, Ravinia, Bard, Prussia Cove in England, and most recently at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany. Their first international tour in the 2007-2008 season included performances in Lithuania on stages in Vilnius and Kaunas. The members of the trio met and formed in 2005 during the Marlboro Music Festival.
Trio Cavatina
Harumi Rhodes, violin; Priscilla Lee, cello; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano.
 Harold Meltzer
Born in Brooklyn in 1966, Harold Meltzer co-directs the ensemble Sequitur and teaches at Vassar College. Among his current composition projects are Beautiful Ohio, a song cycle commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation for tenor Paul Appleby to premiere with the New York Festival of Song in May 2010; Kreisleriana, a violin and piano duo commissioned through the McKim Fund at the Library of Congress; a String Quartet, awarded by his winning the 2008 Barlow International Prize, for the Avalon, Lydian, and Pacifica Quartets. Harold's music has been recognized also with a Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Tickets: $20 at the door. Students: $10. TDF accepted.
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