Lysander Trio, Ensemble-in-Residence
The Lysander Piano Trio, winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition, has been praised by The Strad for its “incredible ensemble, passionate playing, articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colours.” The Trio has developed a reputation for innovative programming of masterworks from the canon alongside newer works and hidden gems. The Trio’s 2014 debut recording, After a Dream (CAG Records), features music by Ravel, Haydn, Schubert, Joaquin Turina, and Moshe Zorman, and has received acclaim for its “polished and spirited interpretations” (The New York Times).
The Lysander Piano Trio is proactive in commissioning new works and creating programs that mix the music of today with well-loved masterworks. Their latest new work is Gilad Cohen’s Around the Cauldron, co-commissioned by CAG and premiered at Weill Recital Hall in March 2017 on the CAG Encores series. Other recent Lysander Trio premieres include: Ghostwritten Variations, by Venezuelan-American composer Reinaldo Moya, who received a 2015 McKnight Fellowship; Jakub Ciupinski’s The Black Mirror (also co-commissioned by CAG and premiered at Weill Recital Hall); and Four Movements Inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” penned by four pre-teen composers of ComposerCraft from NYC’s Kaufman Music Center and premiered at Merkin Concert Hall in January 2014.
Recent engagements include an April 2014 Weill Recital Hall debut at Carnegie Hall, for which The New York Times lauded the ensemble’s “rich sound and nuanced musicianship…resulting in a finely hued collaboration among the three musicians.” Internationally, the Lysander Piano Trio has performed recently in Israel and at the Copenhagen Summer Festival, and current US career highlights include: Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Auditorium (for the Mostly Mozart Festival), Alice Tully Hall, Schneider Concerts Chamber Music Series at the New School, and Merkin Concert Hall in NYC; the Kennedy Center and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; Purdue University’s Convocations Series, Los Angeles’ Clark Memorial Library at UCLA and the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series of the Da Camera Society of Mount Saint Mary’s University; Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Concert series and Rockford Coronado Concerts; San Francisco’s Music at Kohl Mansion; Atlanta’s Spivey Hall; and the Detroit Institute of Arts. In addition, the Trio recently made its concerto debut, performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the DuPage Symphony Orchestra near Chicago.
The Lysander Piano Trio was formed at The Juilliard School in 2009, and selected that year to represent Juilliard in a special concert in Mexico City on the occasion of President Joseph Polisi’s visit to Mexico. The Trio has performed in master classes for Alfred Brendel and for Ida and Ani Kavafian at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and it has studied with Ronald Copes of the Juilliard String Quartet, Joseph Kalichstein of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, and Seymour Lipkin. The Lysander Piano Trio takes its name from the character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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