Beni Shinohara, violin
Rebecca Rust, cello
Janet Guggenheim, piano
Friedrich Edelmann, bassoon
~ PROGRAM ~
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1691-1755): Trio in D Major op. 5 No. 6 for violin, cello, bassoon
Largo - Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata op. 5 No. 2 in g minor for cello and piano
- Adagio sostenuto e espressivo - Allegro molto piu tosto presto
- Rondo (Allegro)
Laurence Sherr (1953): “Elegy and Vision” for cello and bassoon
Lamentoso
Arthur Frackenpohl (1924): American Ragtime for bassoon and cello
Fast
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Trio No. 1 in G-Major („Gypsy Trio“) for violin, cello, piano
Andante - Poco Adagio - Rondo all’ Ongarese
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
Violinist, BENI SHINOHARA, is a native of Nagoya, Japan. Beni studied violin at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, where she earned a Master of Music degree. She also studied in Europe with Sandor Vegh before coming to the United States. Beni has been the Assistant Principal Second violin for the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1988 and Assistant Concertmaster in the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra since 1990. She also performs with many Bay Area chamber ensembles such as Marin Chamber Players, Gold Coast Chamber Players, and the Edgewood Trio.
Internationally concertizing American cellist REBECCA RUST, student of Margaret Rowell, Bernard Greenhouse and M. Rostropovich and German bassoonist FRIEDRICH EDELMANN, principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the principal conductors Sergiu Celibidache and James Levine are concertizing and recording regularly as cello-bassoon DUO and together with piano as a TRIO in Europe, U.S.A. and Japan. They performed at the Imperial Palace of Japan in Tokyo in front of Their Majesties Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko and performed private music-making with Empress Michiko on the piano. In the summer of 2017, they were participants in the international FORFEST Festival in the Czech Republic performing mostly music composed for them. In the fall 2017 a concert tour in Japan is planned, sponsored by Mercedes-Benz of Japan.
Composers who have written and dedicated compositions (Duos & Trios): Otmar Mácha & Jan Novák (Czech Republic), Harald Genzmer (Germany), Max Stern (Israel), Jan Koetsier (The Netherlands), George Peter Tingley (U.S.A.). Rebecca Rust plays a Master Cello by William Forster of 1791 which was formerly owned and played by Prince Charles.
JANET GOODMAN GUGGENHEIM began her piano studies with her father when she was five years old and, in her hometown, Spokane, also worked with Margaret Saunders Ott. At the age of ten she was accepted for summer master classes by the legendary piano teacher Rosina Lhevinne, who was her mentor for many years. She made her orchestral debut with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of sixteen. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded an Alfred Hertz Fellowship, she received her master's degree at Juilliard, where she was the recipient of the Josef Lhevinne scholarship. She coached under Dame Myra Hess in London and performed concerts throughout Europe. She was a recipient of a Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation grant. Prior to moving to Portland in 1995 she was on the music faculty at the University of California. She was founding pianist of the Chamber Soloists of San Francisco and has participated in numerous music festivals in the United States and Europe. For over thirty years she collaborated with the celebrated violinist Itzhak Perlman, including concerts in Hong Kong, Taipei, Istanbul and Russia. The Moscow concert encores are included in the DVD, “Perlman Live in Russia”. She has been pianist numerous times on the Johnny Carson Show for Mr. Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, and Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg. Additionally she has collaborated with violinists Young Uck Kim, David Kim, Dong Suk Kang, Ivry Gitlis, Uto Ughi, Miriam Fried, Pinchas Zukerman, Stuart Canin, hornist Barry Tuckwell, cellists Pierre Fournier and Matt Haimovitz, and has recorded CDs of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev (Naxos) with cellist Michael Grebanier.
ABOUT WEDNESDAY NOON CONCERTS
The community is invited to our complementary Wednesday Noon Concert series. As part of our ongoing mission to use the transformative power of the arts to inspire and enrich our community, we have opened our doors every Wednesday at noon and presented concerts performed by talented musicians that are free of charge to the public. These free noon performances offer listeners the opportunity to discover the beauty of music in an intimate accessible setting, while providing the community with cultural enrichment and exposure to talented performers.
Concerts are in a one-hour format and performances take place in the intimate Tivoli or Crescendo where both audience and musicians can sit in vibrant, close proximity. Musicians often stay after the performance to informally speak about the program and their upcoming concerts.
