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 CD's 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 13 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

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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For her Weill Recital Hall debut, Anastasia Khitruk has chosen a program highlighting composer Miklós Rózsa to celebrate the release of her recording of his violin concerto by Naxos. Ms. Khitruk's passionate devotion to musical discovery has been the hallmark of her career. She has brought her fiery virtuosity to the service of the unjustly forgotten Russian composer Ivan Khandoshkin, Kapellmeister of Catherine the Great. Raised in New York, trained at The Juilliard School and a laureate of the Premio Paganini, Ms. Khitruk has performed worldwide in concert under the baton of Hannu Lintu, Saulis Sondeckis, Claude Bardon, Patricio Cobos and Vladislav Bulakov. She also has an active chamber music career collaborating regularly with violinists Alexandre Brussilovsky, Mark Peskanov, pianists David Korevaar, Valery Afanassiev, and cellists Francois Salque and Emilio Colon. Her search for contemporary composers has led her to perform the works of Yves Prin, Philippe Hersant, and Michael Colina. Critics and audiences alike acclaim her performances and agree with critic Chris Reid: "Anastasia Khitruk is masterful."

Hailed by critics as an "extraordinary musician" (The Washington Post), cellist Andrey Tchekmazov is known for his versatility as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He has performed often with Ms. Khitruk and their recording of the Rózsa Sinfonia Concertante was released by Naxos last month. Mr. Tchekmazov was born in Moscow into a family of professional pianists, and studied piano and later cello at the Gnessin Academy. He continued his studies at the Moscow State Conservatory with Nataliya Shakhovskaya, and later at The Juilliard School as a Leonard Rose Scholarship student of Harvey Shapiro. Ever since his critically acclaimed debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, Mr. Tchekmazov has enjoyed an active career, performing at such renowned venues as Barge Music, Rhode Island Chamber Music Series, Bar Harbor Festival, Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, and Hampden Sydney, where he was invited to perform by the Emerson String Quartet.

Elizaveta Kopelman was born in Moscow and studied at the Central School of Music in Moscow with Dina Parachina and with Arnaldo Cohen at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. In 1995 she won the prestigious Young Concert Artist Trust Competition in London, and since has appeared as a soloist throughout the UK, Europe, USA and South America. She has performed at Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic, London Chamber Orchestra, and New York Chamber Symphony. Her chamber music collaborations include the Leopold String Trio, Ying Quartet, Jupiter Chamber Players, and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Ms. Kopelman also performs regularly with her father, violinist Mikhail Kopelman.

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