Sunday Music Series | “Music for Three: Ludwig van Beethoven & Anton Arensky"

The NBMAA’s longstanding monthly concert series, featuring local & regional performances from a variety of musical genres.

Featuring:
Veronika Schreiber, violiin
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Corbin Beisner, piano

The “Piano Trio” format, first originated during music’s Baroque period, gained popularity with composers such as Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during the Classical period, and was expanded further in form and expression by Ludwig Van Beethoven, culminating in his favorite, Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3, completed in 1795.

In contrast, the 19th-century Russian composer Anton Arensky’s “Trio in D minor” is a Romantic-era work; sorrowful, but punctuated with bright and dancing phrases, written in memory of Karl Davydov, the “Czar of Cellists.”

PROGRAM

L. van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Trio Op.1 #3 in C minor
Allegro con brio
Andante Cantabile con Variazioni
Menuetto Quasi Allegro
Finale Prestissimo

A. Arensky (1861-1906)
Trio #1 in D minor
Allegro moderato
Scherzo
Elegia Adagio
Finale Allegro non troppo 

Veronika Schreiber, violin

Soloist with many orchestras in Poland, Spain, Italy, and in the USA, Veronika Schreiber Kadlubkiewicz has appeared at Marlboro Music Festival, Bach Aria Festival, Monadnock Music, Estate di Radicondoli (Italy), Festi’Val d’Arly (France), Musica Electronica Nova, and Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland).

Formerly concertmaster of Polish Chamber Orchestra, Orchesta Filarmonica di Gran Canaria, and the New Hampshire Symphony, she also played with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and was founding member of New England Camerata. 

Ms. Schreiber taught violin and chamber music at Smith College, Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She conducted Violin Masterclasses in France (schreibermasterclass.com), at Duke University and Charleston College SC.

She is Artistic Director of the festival Viva Bach Peterborough in Peterborough, NH and the Viva Bach festival in Portugal, and was member of jury of Tibor Varga Competition in Switzerland.

Ms. Schreiber has recorded for Gasparo and CRI labels, as well as for Polish Radio and WDR. 

Corbin Beisner, piano

Mr. Beisner has been active as a classical pianist throughout the United States and Europe since his solo recital debut in 2005. A year later he gave his debut concerto performance with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 37. 

Notable performances have included recitals at the Conservatoire Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, the Liszt Saal at the Accademia d’Ungheria in Rome, Italy, recitals throughout Switzerland, including an all-Liszt recital in the famous “Le Troi Rois” hotel in Basel, repeated invitations at the Schmiedenhof Zunftsaal, also in Basel, numerous concerts in Budapest, Hungary, and performances at the Summer Liszt Academy in Schillingsfürst, Germany.

In the United States, he has been invited to perform by Chopin societies in Connecticut, Texas, the Chopin Foundation in Florida, and the American Liszt Society.

Mr. Beisner has performed with orchestras in Indiana, throughout Connecticut, and Nevada in the USA, Basel, Switzerland, and Brescia, Italy, (Artematica Organization) and has also collaborated with various chamber musicians and opera singers throughout the United States and Europe. 

He is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, USA (BMus) and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem) in Budapest, Hungary (M.M.)

In 2018 and 2019, he received rave reviews in the German/Swiss newspapers “Die Neue Fricktaler Zeitung” and “Badische Zeitung” for his recitals, notably his performances of the music of Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, and Liszt. He is also a 1st prize winner of the London Liszt Society Competition. His debut CD, presenting the works of Franz Liszt, was released in late 2020 under the German label “Perfect Noise."

Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello

Ignacy Gaydamovich is a recipient of top prizes at international competitions and as a
soloist performed with the National Radio and TV of Albania, Hartt Symphony, and
Manchester (CT) Symphony orchestras. He has released three CDs, and has performed in
Austria, China, Japan, Lebanon, Panama, Poland, Russia, as well as in the US. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music and has been on the cello faculty at Texas Christian University and Mount Holyoke College. Dr. Gaydamovich has received degrees from F. Chopin Music Academy, Texas Christian University, Boston Conservatory, Longy School of Music, and his doctorate from the University of Hartford. https://gaydamovich.com/