Trio Latitude 41 Releases Debut Recording

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Trio Latitude 41 Releases Debut Recording - Schubert Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 100, D 929 and Notturno Included on New Eloquentia CD

New York, New York, United States., January 17, 2012 - (PressReleasePoint) -

 
For immediate release
 
TRIO LATITUDE 41
RELEASES DEBUT RECORDING
 
SCHUBERT TRIO IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 100, D 929
AND NOTTURNO INCLUDED ON NEW ELOQUENTIA CD
 
Trio Latitude 41 – Bernadene Blaha, piano; Livia Sohn, violin; and Luigi Piovano, cello – has chosen one of the seminal works of the chamber music repertoire, Schubert’s Trio in E-flat major, Op. 100, D 929, to present its calling card to the world of recorded music.  The CD is being released on the French label Eloquentia, distributed by Harmonia Mundi.

Violinist Livia Sohn, speaking for the group, describes its origin. “Latitude 41 was formed a number of years after we all met at the Newport Music Festival one summer. We were never together as a trio during the festival, but played together in other formations. However, we all left with the same pipe dream – that if the three of us could play as a group it would be ideal, both musically and personally. While logistics – three separate, busy careers and the added dilemma of three different locales – kept that dream from becoming a reality for a few years, the thought of one day working together kept us from forming groups with other personnel. Eventually, we decided to overlook the impracticalities and form our trio, enabling us to do what is most important to us – make music.”
 
For its first recording, Trio Latitude 41 has chosen two works from Franz Schubert’s productive final year.  The Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100, D 929, was one of the few large-scale works by Schubert both to have been played in a public concert and published during his lifetime.  The posthumously-published trio movement known as Notturno was possibly an alternate slow movement for Schubert’s other late trio (Op. 99, D 898, in B-flat Major).
 
Trio Latitude 41
Violinist Livia Sohn, cellist Luigi Piovano, and pianist Bernadene Blaha came together to form Latitude 41 in the summer of 2009, as a result of their previous musical collaborations and mutual passion for chamber music. Since then, highlights of Latitude 41 appearances have included the Newport Music Festival (opening gala in 2009, closing gala in 2011), the L’Ermitage Foundation in Los Angeles, and “Sundays Live” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, streamed live across the Internet and radio. Highlights of future engagements include a recital for Maverick Concerts in New York – America’s oldest continuous summer chamber music festival – and Music in the Morning, in Vancouver. The origin of the trio’s name stems from the fact that both the trio’s first performance venue in Rhode Island, and Rome, Italy, the home of cellist Luigi Piovano, share the same Latitude – 41 N.  www.latitude41trio.com
 
Livia Sohn
Livia Sohn performs widely on the international stage as concerto soloist, recitalist, and festival guest in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand. Livia’s 2011-12 season includes guest artist engagements at the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia, the Spoleto USA Festival (South Carolina), Bay Chamber Concerts (Maine), and The Broad Stage (California), in repertoire ranging from the Tchaikovsky Concerto to music by living composers. Among highlights of her 2010-11 season were performances as soloist with the Hungarian Radio Orchestra in Budapest, and the San Bernardino Symphony in California, as well as recitals in Tokyo, Chicago, and Toronto. Awaiting release is a CD of Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto, paired with the concerto Jiyeh by Israeli-American composer Jonathan Berger (written for and premiered by Livia in 2007). Livia Sohn gave her first public performance at the age of eight. In 1989, at age 12, she won First Prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. She attended the Juilliard Pre-College Division from age seven, when she began her studies with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. She continued under their tutelage at The Juilliard School, where she also studied chamber music with the legendary Felix Galamir. Livia Sohn plays on a J. B. Guadagnini violin, crafted in 1770, and also a Samuel Zygmuntowicz, made in 2006. She has been on the faculty at the Music Department of Stanford University in California since 2005.  www.liviasohn.com
 
Bernadene Blaha
Bernadene Blaha’s command of the piano, as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, has been hailed in performances throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Mexico. Recent highlights have included her debut performances in Australia and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as serving as a jury member at the prestigious 2010 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. A highly regarded chamber musician, Bernadene Blaha has been a regular guest at international festivals including the Newport Festival, Tucson Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest (San Diego, California), Bard Music Festival (New York), Festival of the Sound (Parry Sound, Canada), Banff Festival of the Arts (Canada), Round Top International Festival (Texas) and the San Miguel de Allende Festival (Mexico). Bernadene Blaha currently resides in Los Angeles, and, since 1993, has been a member of the Keyboard Faculty at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California.  www.BernadeneBlaha.com
 
Luigi Piovano
Principal cellist of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and guest principal cellist of the Tokyo and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras, Luigi Piovano has been enjoying growing international recognition both as a cellist and as a conductor. He first attracted attention on the international music circuit with his participation in the Pollini Project, which led to a highly successful debut at the Salzburg Festival, as well as performances in Tokyo, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Rome. He has performed as a soloist under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Myung-Whun Chung, Yehudi Menuhin and Mikhail Pletnev, among others, and in chamber music concerts with artists such as Malcolm Bilson, Myung-Whun Chung, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Antonio Pappano, with whom he has been performing in duo since 2007. Luigi Piovano’s musical education began under the tutelage of his father. At the age of seventeen, after completing his studies with Radu Aldulescu, he went on to study at the International Menuhin Academy in Switzerland and the European Conservatoire in Paris. Luigi Piovano plays a cello by Alessandro Gagliano dated 1710.  www.LuigiPiovano.it
 
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