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September
22
Thursday,
7:30 pm
$12 - $16 adult; $8 - $12 student
Upper level seats are listed first. Includes all fees.
Vladimir Volokhin, Domra (short-necked
lute)
Sergei Teleshev, bajan (button accordion)
Valerie Petrukhin, double-bass balalaika
Trio Voronezh was one of the most amazing and thrilling ensembles that Caldwell Fine Arts presented in 1999. It is a joy to invite them to return. The trio had the audience’s attention from the very first note. This observation from James
Hagengruber, of the Billings
Gazette, is very colorful. “Three Russians used six strings and about 1,000 accordion buttons to create two hours of extraordinary music. The first clue that this concert wasn’t going to be a sleeper was the giant, cheese-wedge-shaped stringed instrument that looked like it was designed by Dr. Seuss. Next to this wooden Goliath was the “domra,” a tiny, short-necked lute. Adding to the oddity of it all was the button accordion that was ‘partially played with the chin.’ Listening to the trio was like twisting open Russian dolls, but unlike the dolls, which become increasingly smaller, the trio’s music kept getting bigger and more dramatic.” A fellow reporter and guitar picker joked during the intermission, “Watching the bajan player was like watching someone make beautiful music with two typewriters and a bellows.”
The individual musicians began music study around age 6 in Voronezh, Russia, a city of over a million south of Moscow. They graduated from its conservatory and in 1993 were playing in the streets and subways of Russian and European cities. Conductor Helmuth Rilling of the Oregon Bach Festival discovered them in Frankfort in 1966 and brought them to Eugene for their American debut. The first U.S. tour began on PBS in 1998 at “A Prairie Home Companion”
program with Garrison Keillor. The Trio went on to perform at Houston’s Society for the Performing Arts; the cities of Ann Arbor, Chicago, Portland, and St. Louis; and the Universities of Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Nebraska, and Los
Angeles, as well as Amherst, Dartmouth, New York’s Rockefeller University, and Stanford. The Trio’s diverse repertoire ranges from classical works of Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky to Russian folk music and popular songs by Gershwin and Piazzola. Whether it is with the Minnesota Orchestra and Doc Severinsen in a pops concert or with the Oregon Symphony in
Portland, Trio Voronezh enchants an audience. Their music and style is definitely “cross-over”—appealing to lovers of classics, blue grass, guitar virtuosos, mandolin players, and people who are curious about these traditional Russian folk instruments.
Trio Voronezh has recently completed a CD on the Angel Label. E-mail (CD orders):
triovoro@yahoo.com
The Western States Arts Federation through the Tour West and the National Endowment for the Arts is helping to support this tour which includes Hermiston, OR, on September 24, Florence OR, Sandpoint, ID, and many cities across the United States.
www.triovoronezh.com
management: www.herbertbarrett.com
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