Washington Musica Viva: 'Frontline' by Noam Faingold, world premiere
$20 – advance only
- Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet
- Bonnie Thron, cello
- Carl Banner, piano
Robert Kahn — Clarinet Trio in G minor, Op. 45
Camille Saint-Saëns — Clarinet Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 167
Bonnie Thron (cello), Fred Jacobowitz (clarinet), and Carl Banner (piano) perform the world premiere of Noam Faingold's Trio, Frontline, for clarinet, cello, and piano, commissioned by Washington Musica Viva: "Dedicated to frontline workers during the pandemic, especially teachers, and healthcare and store workers." Plus the Clarinet Sonata by Camille Saint-Saens; and Robert Kahn's Trio in G minor, Op. 45.
With poet Anne Becker, former Poet Laureate of Takoma Park; and Sri Lankan-American poet Indran Amirthanayagam.
COVID-19 Protocols: Guests must be fully vaccinated. Masks are encouraged, but not required.
About Washington Musica Viva
WMV is dedicated to the performance of classical, contemporary, and jazz-based chamber music in intimate settings.
https://www.dcmusicaviva.org/About Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet
Fred Jacobowitz received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in clarinet performance from the Julliard School, where he studied with the late Leon Russianoff. He made his New York Debut at Carnegie Recital Hall (now Weill Hall) as winner of the Artists International competition. He was a featured soloist on radio stations WBAI and WQXR in New York City, with the Goldman Band, and in recital throughout the Metropolitan New York area. As a chamber musician, he has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and played in the Verrazano Winds Woodwind Quintet in Brooklyn, New York. Fred was Principal Clarinetist in the Annapolis (Maryland) Symphony Orchestra from 1989-2002. He is equally at home in the worlds of Classical, Jazz, and Folk; he performs, and has recorded with, his Kol Haruach Klezmer Band and his duo, Ebony and Ivory. He has performed as recitalist and soloist throughout the US and Canada and in Panama. Fred now resides in Raleigh, NC, where he teaches and freelances, and he can often be heard playing concerts with his wife, North Carolina Symphony Principal Cellist Bonnie Thron.
https://www.case-closed.us/ccwho.htmlAbout Bonnie Thron, cello
Bonnie Thron joined the North Carolina Symphony as principal cellist in 2000. She is an active chamber musician and recitalist and locally has been a guest artist with the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the Ciompi Quartet, as well as occasionally joining the Jacobowitz-Larkin Duo to form a clarinet trio called Three For All. In the Washington, D.C. area, she has recently been a guest with the American Chamber Players and performs regularly on the Washington Musica Viva series. For the past several summers, she has been a guest artist and teacher at the East Carolina University Summer Chamber Music Institute. In the summers, she plays in the Sebago Long Lake Music Festival in Maine.
Previously Thron was a member of the Peabody Trio, in residence at the Peabody Institute, during which time the group won the Naumberg chamber music competition. Early in her career Thron was assistant principal cellist of the Denver Symphony for a season and she has played and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble. She has had a long history with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, as a guest artist and chamber music coach, and was involved in the group’s first Playing for Peace tour to the Middle East in 1991. Thron has performed concertos with the North Carolina Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Panama National Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and various other orchestras in North Carolina and her original home state of New Hampshire.
Thron received both a bachelor's and a master's degree from The Juilliard School. Her teachers include Lynn Harrell, Norman Fischer, and Elsa Hilger. Thron also received a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and worked as a nurse for several years as a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital and as a case manager in home care nursing during which time she was also a cello teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts.
https://www.ncsymphony.org/about-us/bonnie-thron/