Tickets, at $94, 57, 35, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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Monte Atkinson has been director of choral activities at Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado, since 1985, where he leads an active choral area, oversees choral music education, and conducts the Mesa State concert choir and chamber choir. Choirs under his direction have performed with the Denver Chamber Orchestra, Mexico National Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, annually with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, and the Mesa State Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted the Mesa State Chamber Choir in performance throughout the United States and Canada, Europe and Great Britain.

Dr. Atkinson continues to serve as artistic director and conductor of the Western Colorado Chorale, a 45-voice semi-professional choral ensemble he founded in 1985. The Western Colorado Chorale's concert series showcases choral and solo repertoire of great diversity, highlighted by their annual masterworks in which they are joined by the Grand Junction Symphony Chamber Orchestra. In addition, as chorus master for the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Atkinson has prepared many of the great choral works for the symphony's annual masterworks concert.

Prior to his appointment at Mesa State College, Dr. Atkinson served on the choral faculty at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. An accomplished pianist, he holds a Bachelors degree in choral music, piano and strings from Utah State University. His master's in choral conducting and doctorate of musical arts in choral music were earned at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1999 Dr. Atkinson was honored as the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award at Mesa State College. A long-time member of the American Choral Directors Association, Dr. Atkinson is married to flautist Gail Patten Atkinson, and continues to be in demand as an adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor.

Michael Anderson is the chairman of the department of performing arts and director of choral and vocal studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As an associate professor of music, his responsibilities include conducting the university choir and chamber choir, as well as teaching conducting and music theory. He holds a D.M.A. degree from the University of Colorado where he studied conducting with Lynn Whitten and Lawrence Kaptein, and the M.MusEd and B.MusEd degrees from Georgia State University where he studied conducting with John Haberlen and music education with Sally Monsour.

As vice-president of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM), Dr. Anderson is the principal administrator for North America. He is a member of the executive committee and board of directors of IFCM and sits on the board of directors of the International Center for Choral Music in Namur, Belgium. He also serves on the board of advisors for the School of Music at Georgia State University.

Dr. Anderson is the former editor of the World Choral Census, and wrote performance guides for the Cantemus Songbook Series, both worldwide publications of the IFCM. Dr. Anderson has conducted, lectured, and adjudicated choirs across the United States, in Sweden, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact David Dutkanicz at 212-239-0205 or ddutkanicz@midamerica-music.com

General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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The Clavier Trio was born after a spontaneous chamber music session at the 1997 Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado. The Trio has since performed in the inaugural Dallas Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series and to critical acclaim at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, returning to New York City with two performances in the 2007-08 season as well the celebrated BARGEMUSIC conert series. The trio is presently Ensemble-in-Residence at The University of Texas at Dallas, and in the upcoming concert season will present a World Premiere in New York and Dallas of a work written for them by the distinguished American composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez. Clavier Trio has recorded several CDs and has been featured on radio broadcasts in the USA and worldwide. During the summer months the ensemble performs at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango where its members teach and conduct master classes. For more information, please visit: www.newconservatory.org/claviertrio

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Violinist Arkady Fomin was born in Riga, Latvia, where he received his musical training at the Latvian State Conservatory with the legendary Latvian pedagogue, Voldemar Sturestep. A founder of Clavier Trio, Mr. Fomin has collaborated in performances with Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Borok, Shlomo Mintz, Atar Arad, David Korevaar, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Andrew Litton and the late Steven De Groote. A member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Fomin is also professor and artist-in-residence at the University of Texas at Dallas, artistic director of the New Conservatory of Dallas, and artistic director of Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado. Mr. Fomin is recipient of the Cowlishaw Artist-in-Residence Award for artistic achievement and contributions to the City of Dallas.

Cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi performs as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Recent concerto engagements include the symphony orchestras of Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Texas Christian University; Cannes (France), Aarhus (Denmark), Xalapa, Aguascalientes, the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Symphony in Lima (Peru). Dr. Castro-Balbi is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon (France), Indiana University at Bloomington, Yale University, and The Juilliard School. His mentors include Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. Dr. Castro-Balbi is currently Professor of Cello at Texas Christian University, where he is also the director of the TCU Cello Ensemble and the artistic director of the Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series.

David Korevaar is Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Colorado. In addition to his activities with Clavier Trio, he is a member of the Boulder Piano Quartet. Mr. Korevaar performs as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, and teaches and performs in Japan annually. He began piano studies at age six, and at age thirteen became a student of American virtuoso Earl Wild. By 20, he had earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from The Juilliard School, where he continued piano studies with Earl Wild and composition with David Diamond. For a number of years, he worked with the French pianist Paul Doguereau. Mr. Korevaar completed his doctorate at Juilliard under Abbey Simon and received the Richard French award for his dissertation on Ravel's Miroirs.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact David Dutkanicz at 212-239-0205 or ddutkanicz@midamerica-music.com