WINNEMUCCA - Great Basin Arts and Entertainment is lining up another great music series for 2012 and they are privileged to start the new year hosting the Langroise Trio as they celebrate their 20th year of performances.
The concert will be held on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Martin.
In what has become a community favorite, the concert with Geoffrey Trabichoff, David Johnson and Sam Smith provides an evening of exquisite chamber music in the fashion it was meant to be heard, with a small engaged audience sitting close up, and listening intently. The performance at the Martin has become a favorite of the Langroise Trio's as well with Trabichoff saying, "We love playing in your intimate venue, where the excellent acoustic is exceeded only by the warmth of the audience."
Established in 1991 the Langroise Trio are artists-in-residence at The College of Idaho, where they form the string faculty. They have performed on chamber music series in Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, their fourth c.d. is in the planning stage and the trio was one of the first groups to give an "Internet-archived" concert on the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center.
With its personnel among some of the foremost musicians in the country, the Langroise Trio offers an eclectic repertoire. Contemporary works by Idaho composers Jim Cockey and David Alan Earnest have been written especially for them and they stylishly play music from the Romantic, Classical, Baroque and Renaissance eras as well.
Geoffrey Trabichoff is concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic. He is the former concertmaster of the BBC Scottish Symphony and former leader of the Paragon Ensemble of Scotland. Trabichoff has broadcast numerous concertos for the BBC. He has been guest concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic and the London Symphony as well as the Northern Sinfonia, BBC Welsh and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras. He also served as concertmaster of the Mannheim Chamber and Hanover State Orchestras in Germany.
David Johnson has been principal violist of the Iceland Symphony and the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, and a member of the Freimann Quartet. Johnson was assistant principal violist for the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago and holds a Master of Music degree from Indiana University. He has been a featured soloist on numerous occasions and a featured artist on Iceland National Radio Broadcasts.
Samuel Smith has been principal cellist of the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic where he was a frequent soloist and a member of the Freimann Quartet. Smith was also a cellist for the Grant Park Symphony of Chicago. He has served as assistant principal cellist of the Florida Symphony, and has been on the adjunct faculty at Anderson College and the summer faculty at Ball State University.
This event is presented by Great Basin Arts and Entertainment, a local all-volunteer, grass-roots non-profit, organized to bring world class performances to the community. Tickets are $15 each and are available at Nature's Corner, Global Coffee and The Martin Hotel. For more information visit www.gbae.org.
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