The Cret String Trio: Schoenberg, Beethoven and Greg Sandow (world première)

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Stephanie Zyzack, violin
David Yang, viola
Clancy Newman, cello

Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
String Trio, Opus 45

Greg Sandow (b. 1943)
String Trio *world premiere*

INTERVAL

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
String Trio in C Minor, Opus 9, Number 3
I. Allegro con spirito 
II. Adagio con espressione 
III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace
IV. Finale. Presto 


The Cret Trio was formed by three virtuosi friends to explore masterpieces in the relatively unheralded string trio repertoire.Their inaugural season includes recitals in Philadelphia, Boston, Concord, Portsmouth, and Newburyport. The trio is named after legendary modernist-classicist architect Paul Cret (1876 –1945), responsible for many of the most iconic public works in the USA, whose monumental stripped-down classicism “dispensed with the Greek orders but preserved a sense of proportion, balance and symmetry.”

Praised for her sensitive musicianship and heartfelt playing, violinist Stephanie Zyzak is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most soulful and profound musicians of her generation. Since making her debut in 2004 with the Louisville Orchestra, Stephanie has performed as a soloist throughout Germany, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and France. A deeply passionate chamber musician, Stephanie has had the privilege of collaborating with renowned musicians including Jonathan Biss, Kim Kashkashian, Ida Kavafian, Alice Neary, Danny Phillips, Marcy Rosen, and Mitsuko Uchida. She has also performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Caramoor, the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, as well as on tour with Musicians From Marlboro. Stephanie studied with Miriam Fried and Mark Steinberg and performs on a 1778 Joseph and Antonio Gagliano violin, generously on loan from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, and a bow by François-Nicolas Voirin.

Violist David Yang has been described as "lithe and expressive" in the Strad Magazine and called “a conduit for music;” the renaissance man has forged a career that is a blend of performing, composition, and storytelling, and been heard in collaboration with members of the Borromeo, Brentano, Miro, Pro Arte, Tokyo, and Vermeer String Quartets. He has commissioned dozens of works and is Artistic Director of the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival. He founded Auricolae Storytelling and Music Troupe and was also founder/director of the chamber music program at the University of Pennsylvania for twenty years in addition to being a member of Ensemble Epomeo based in the U.K. Their recordings have been designated “critic’s choice” in Gramophone Magazine and their second CD described in the Strad with "remarkable intensity and elegant assurance throughout.” 

Cellist Clancy Newman, first prize winner of the Naumburg International Competition and recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, has had the unusual career of a performer/composer. He has performed as soloist throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and he has been a member of Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center, Musicians from Marlboro, and the Weiss-Kaplan Newman trio. He has been a featured composer on series by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and his "Pop-Unpopped" solo cello project has expanded cello technique in ways heretofore unimagined. He is a graduate of the five-year exchange program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School.

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