Experience the Park Trio in Concert on January 24, 2025. Join us as our esteemed resident ensemble, featuring ICM faculty members Ben Sayevich, violin; Daniel Veis, cello; and Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, piano.
PROGRAM
Piano Trio in D minor op. 32
Anton Arensky (1861-1905)
I Allegro Moderato
II Scherzo (allegro Molto)
III Elegia
IV Finale (Allegro non troppo)
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Piano Trio in E minor op. 90 “Dumky”
Antonín Dvořák (1841-904)
I Lento maestoso — Allegro quasi doppio movimento
II Poco adagio — Vivace non troppo — Vivace
III Andante — Vivace non troppo — Allegretto
IV Andante moderato — Allegretto scherzando — Quasi tempo di marcia
V Allegro
VI Lento maestoso
LOLITA LISOVSKAYA-SAYEVICH
Born into a Tashkent (Uzbekistan) musical family, Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich began studying piano at the age of 4. In 1985 she entered the Uspensky Central Music School in Tashkent. In 1993 she started attending a private school for young musicians in Moscow, and that same year received the first prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Göttingen, Germany. She entered the Tchaikovsky Special Music School in 1995, and two years later was accepted to the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage of Vera Gornostaeva, with whom she continued postgraduate study from 2002 to 2004. Lisovskaya-Sayevich also studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University.
In 1996 Lisovskaya-Sayevich received the first prize from the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition, and in 2007 the first prize at the Iowa Piano International Competition. She was awarded scholarships from the Rostropovich Foundation, the Spivakov Foundation and the Nikolai Petrov Foundation. She has also earned the laureate designation from the international program “New Names,” and the festival “Virtuoso 2000” in St. Petersburg, Russia. Lisovskaya-Sayevich has recorded at the Hessen Radio Station in Frankfurt, Germany, and at Orfei Radio in Moscow.
Lisovskaya-Sayevich has presented numerous solo recitals and has played as a soloist with orchestras in Austria, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Russia. She has participated in many music festivals, including the Bashmet Festival in Tours, France, “Wave 2000” in Japan, International Musical Arts Institute in Maine (USA), Killington Music Festival in Vermont (USA), “Ars Longa” and “Primavera Classica” in Moscow. She collaborated with such renowned musicians as Daniel Muller-Shott, Shmuel Ashkenazy, members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and many others. She now performs extensively in chamber music ensembles.
BEN SAYEVICH
Lithuanian-Israeli violinist Ben Sayevich has established himself as one of the most distinguished violinists and teachers of his generation. He has concertized extensively throughout North America, Europe and the Far East and has appeared on radio and television as a soloist and chamber musician. He is featured as the soloist in a recording of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. At the New England Conservatory he was chosen to play the Violin Concerto by Alban Berg for the celebration of the composer’s centenary. Sayevich’s interpretation carries the tradition that comes down directly from the composer, through his work on the piece with the late Louis Krasner, the commissioner, dedicatee and the violinist at the work’s premiere.
His extensive activities with orchestras have included the concertmaster posts at the Kansas City Camerata and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, with both of which he made numerous concerto appearances, including Violin Concertos by Vieuxtemps, Glazunov, Mozart and Beethoven. He was also concertmaster of the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra during a five-week world tour of Japan, Singapore and Canada.
Sayevich also maintains a vigorous schedule as chamber musician. He is a founding member of the Park Piano Trio, established at Park University in 2006, and is violinist of the London-based Rosamunde Piano Trio. With the Rosamunde Trio he has performed widely in Europe, including appearances on BBC Radio London, Irish Public Radio in Cork and the Abbado Festival Bologna. He is also a founding member of Quartet Accorda, which began in the 1990s and was officially incorporated in 2002.
Sayevich has taught at the University of Kansas, the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway, at the New England Conservatory, the Hartt School of Music and the Yellow Barn Music Festival, in Vermont.
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, he studied violin in Vilnius from the age of 6 at the Churlonis School for the Performing Arts. At 12 he immigrated to Israel with his family and studied with Felix Andrievsky. At age 21, after serving in the Israeli Army, he went to the United States to study with Dorothy DeLay, later moving to the New England Conservatory to continue studies with her (1981-85) and with Eric Rosenblith (1985-87). He is a recipient of the prestigious artist diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he was Rosenblith’s teaching assistant.
DANIEL VEIS
Daniel Veis has been widely recognized as the finest Czech cellist since winning the
Silver Medal at the prestigious 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition, Moscow, and the First Prize at the 1976 Prague Spring International Competition.
He started his musical studies in his native Prague and proceeded to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire furthering his studies with the famous Natalia Shakhovskaya, graduating with full distinction.
Since 1979 he has performed regularly as a soloist with many major orchestras in such respected venues as Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall NY, Royal Albert Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place (London), Orchard Hall (Tokyo), Auditorí de Barcelona, Auditorio National de Madrid, Neues Gewandhaus Leipzig and Festsaal Dresden and all major halls in Czechoslovakia including Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall in Prague.
He has work with world famous conductors (V. Neumann, Sir Ch. Mackerras, S. Baudo, L. Pesek, J. Belohlavek, G. Deluge, O. Danon, Y.P. Tortelier, Ch. Seaman, J.P. Saraste) and outstanding musicians (J. Panenka, V. Snitil, L.Kavakos, A. Levine, K.W. Park, D. Poppen and P. Neubauer).
As a regular guest Veis has been invited to various international festivals ( Prague Spring, Schumann- Zwickau, Bodensee-Fridrichshaven, Polenca -Mallorca, Canarias, Ex Toto Corte- Saõ Paolo, Victoria International Arts- Malta).
His repertoire is wast and diverse and includes a large number of contemporary compositions, some of them dedicated to him. For various labels he has recorded complete cello works by Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Martinu and concertos by Dvorak, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Sommer and Vella. For several years Veis hold a position of a guest soloist of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, as a founding member of Dvorak Trio he has recorded with this group complete trios by Dvorak and Martinu as well as trios by Brahms, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Suk etc..
As a sought after teacher he led the cello studio at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts where he also held a position of a Head of Strings. During this period he brought up a number of excellent cellists who are now principals and members of major orchestra and chamber groups.
In 2010 Veis was invited to lead the Cello Studio at International Center for Music of Park University, Kansas City, MO. He is a member of Park Trio and a founding member of in London based Rosamunde Trio, regularly performs in UK, Germany, Austria, France, Japan, Brazil, China, USA and is frequently invited to judge international competitions.
He plays Jacobus Horil cello made in Rome 1750.