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PITTSBURGH PIANO TRIO COMING SOONPart of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
TITUSVILLE, Nov. 12 – The Pittsburgh Piano Trio, part of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will perform at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville on Monday, November 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Henne Auditorium. The Trio is comprised of Mikhail Istomin on cello, Jennifer Orchard on violin and Igor Kraevsky on the piano. Under Istomin’s expert direction, the Trio promises to deliver a memorable classical evening. The program will include a trio by Josef Haydn, a beautiful trio by Joaquin Turina written in the time of impressionism, and “Four Seasons” by great Argentinean tango master Astor Piazzolla. Istomin demonstrates a powerful command of the cello with the communicative warmth of a true Romantic artist. He began his musical education in Russia at the Special School for Gifted Children, affiliated with the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. He received his Master of Music degree from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he was invited to join the Chamber Orchestra. Istomin’s talent took him to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Kirov Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1987, Istomin joined the St. Petersburg String Quartet, which won the Grand Prize in the National Soviet Union Competition of String Quartets in 1989. Subsequently, the Quartet was invited to Paris to participate in several concert programs dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. This was followed by an extensive tour of Germany, Spain, Hungary, Poland and Finland. Following a tour in the United States, Istomin defected from Russia and sought political asylum. In America, Istomin performed with the Richmond Symphony and was invited to serve on the faculties of Virginia State University and the Governor’s School for the Performing Arts at the University of Richmond. Prior to joining the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1992, Istomin was Principal Cellist of the Pittsburgh Opera and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Orchestras. In 1993, he was awarded the Passamaneck Award of the Y Music Society Recital Series and the Pittsburgh Concert Society Auditions. He has appeared as soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in the Outreach Concert series, the McKeesport Symphony Orchestra, the Edgewood Symphony and the Williamsburg Symphonia. He is a faculty member at Duquesne University and the City Music Center. Native Canadian Jennifer Orchard has repeatedly brought dynamic and highly acclaimed performances to audiences worldwide, both as a soloist and chamber musician. Orchard completed her undergraduate education at the Curtis Institute of Music with Szymon Goldberg, earned her master's degree from the Juilliard School with Robert Mann, and attended the Marlboro Music Festival. Orchard was a violinist with the internationally-renowned Lark Quartet, where she expanded the string quartet repertoire, including co-commissioning the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning composition 'musica instrumentalis' by Aaron Jay Kernis. The quartet's three year residency at Ohio University was made into a documentary that aired on PBS. During Orchard's eight years with the Lark Quartet, she toured Germany, Great Britain, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada and the United States (including performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, St. Paul's Ordway Theater, and New York's Avery Fisher and Carnegie Halls). Orchard’s extensive chamber music discography on Arabesque Records includes an all-Schnittke CD with Gary Graffman, which has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle, Stereophile, and Gramophone. After moving to Pittsburgh as assistant principal second violin of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Orchard was invited to join the Pittsburgh Piano Trio. Mariupol native Igor Kraevsky is a graduate of the Mariupol Music School in Ukraine and the Music College of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. Kraevsky earned his Diploma with Distinction from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg and his Artist Diploma from Duquesne University. As a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, he has won several national music competitions in Russia and Ukraine and was a multiple winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society Auditions. His artistry, combined with an innate musical sensitivity to others, has made Kraevsky a much sought after chamber musician and accompanist. In 1990, Kraevsky joined the faculty of l'Académie d'Epinal in France and returned to France many times in the following years to teach and perform at l'Académie International de Musique de Semur-en-Auxois et de Bourgogne and l'Académie de Musique de Guérande. Currently Kraevsky serves on the faculty of the Berkeley Carroll School in New York City. Since arriving in the United States in 1993, Kraevsky has continued to perform extensively throughout Eastern Europe, France, Germany, and Spain as well as in the United States. In 1998, he recorded chamber music of Armenian composers in Paris with French violinist Patricia Reibaud for the commercial release on the Dante label (France). In November 2000, Kraevsky founded the recording label "Minstrel" and started a new project recording works by Alec Rowley, an English composer from the turn of the century. The resulting disc Watercolours was released in April 2001. In 2002, he recorded the music of another English composer, C. Armstrong Gibbs, on a CD entitled The Three Graces. Both projects were world premieres and were well received by critics and listeners. In 2003, the CD Fantasie was dedicated to the chamber music of Frank Bridge. His world premier CDs are on the shelves of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Kraevsky is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Piano Trio, as well as a co-founder of the Annual Shadyside Chamber Music Festival in Pittsburgh and the new Music Festival entitled "Pâques Musicales à Moulin d'Andé" in Normandy, France. The Pittsburgh Piano Trio has performed in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. They will conduct a two-week tour of Ukraine and Russia in December, and will perform in New York’s Carnegie Hall on March 19, 2005. The Trio just released a CD of Frank Bridge's chamber works and released a second CD called Encore, Encore, released in spring 2004. For more information or to reserve tickets, call the UPT Public Relations Office at 827-4503 or 827-4429. # # #
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