Arkady Fomin-violin
Jesús Castro-Balbi-cello
David Korevaar-piano

As a preview of their concert at Carnegie Hall on February 10, this performance includes music by Haydn and Beethoven and will feature the world premiere of Sor(tri)lege, a specially commissioned work by Professor of Music Robert Xavier Rodríguez.

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Click here for Laurel Ornish's interview with Arkady Fomin on ClassicalTexas.com

“The three players are excellent;…playing is highly disciplined and blessedly free of show ,fuss and egotism.. Their instrumental command is secure, unobtrusive, and entirely at the service of the music”   
Edith Eisler/New York Concert Review Inc., December  2005

"The Dallas based CLAVIER TRIO  continues to make  a favorable impression with its bracing expansiveness and well-judged balances…..Teamwork and unanimity of interpretative standpoint”   Dennis Rooney/The Strad, February 2006

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CLAVIER TRIO formed out of a spontaneous chamber music session at the Music in the Mountains Festival 1997 in Durango, Colorado. Today, the members of the Trio include violinist Arkady Fomin, cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi, and pianist David Korevaar. CLAVIER TRIO received the honor to perform in the inaugural Dallas Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series at Nasher Sculpture Center. The Trio performs regularly with critical acclaim at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. CLAVIER TRIO served as the Trio-in-Residence at Fort Lewis College, Colorado, and in the summer months performs and teaches at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango. Born in Colorado and based in Dallas, the CLAVIER TRIO appears in concerts and radio broadcasts around the country and internationally and has produced numerous CDs.

Arkady Fomin, violinist, was born in Riga, Latvia, where he received his musical training at the Latvian State Conservatory with legendary Latvian pedagogue, Voldemar Sturestep.  Mr. Fomin has collaborated in performances with Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Borok, Schlomo Mintz, Atar Arad, David Korevaar, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Andrew Litton and late Stephen DeGroote and has perfomred as violinist/conductor in Russia, Latvia, Europe, Japan, and throughout the United States.  A violinist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra,

 Mr. Fomin is Artistic Director of the New Conservatory of Dallas and Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado and is Guest Professor and Artist-in-Residence at Colorado State University. His latest project includes artistic leadership at the upcoming 2006 Winter Music Games Festival in Riga, Latvia.  Arkady Fomin  is recipient of the Cowlishaw Artist-in-Residence Award for artistic achievement and contributions to the City of Dallas.  Mr. Fomin performs on an 1860 JB Vuillaume violin. 

Cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi performs internationally as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Recent highlights include engagements with the Symphony Orchestras of Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Cannes (France), Aarhus (Denmark), Xalapa, Aguascalientes (Mexico), the National Symphony in Lima (Peru), the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Texas Christian University Symphony in the premiere of the Concierto Indio by Edgar Valcárcel, which is dedicated to him. His performances have been broadcast nationally and internationally on television, radio and on the internet.
Dr. Castro-Balbi is the cellist of the Castro-Balbi/Lin Duo and of CLAVER TRIO. He is the founder and artistic director of the TCU Cello Ensemble and of the Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series at TCU.
Dr. Castro-Balbi is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon (France), Indiana University at Bloomington, Yale, and of The Juilliard School. His mentors include Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker, as well as Boris Berman, Rostislav Dubinsky, Joseph Kalischtein, Fred Sherry and members of the Amadeus, Juilliard, Ravel and Tokyo String Quartets. He is currently the cello professor at TCU in Fort Worth.

David Korevaar, pianist, began music training at age six in San Diego with Sherman Storr, and at 13 with Earl Wild.  By 20, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard, where he continued with Earl Wild and studied composition with David Diamond, earning his Doctorate under Abbey Simon and receiving the Richard French award honoring his dissertation on Ravel’s Miroirs. In addition to CLAVIER TRIO Dr. Korevaar is also a member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet and founding member of Hexagon.  He’s performed with the Takacs, Manhattan, Lark, Colorado, Chester, and Shanghai Quartets and presented recitals in New York, across United States, as well as Australia, Japan, Korea, and Europe.  He’s commissioned and premiered works of George Rochberg, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Stephen Jaffe, Scott Eyerly, Libby Larson, and Lowell Liebermann. His recordings include Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Dohnanyi, and Liszt.  Dr. Korevaar is on the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder.