Gloriosa Trio - Yoonie Han, piano, Jennifer Carsillo, violin and Kevin Bate, cello
Mon, Jan 11
|Zinc Bar
The trio will include two world-premieres of works composed for them, including Theodore Wiprud's Vinea Gloriosa
Time & Location
Jan 11, 2016, 7:00 PM
Zinc Bar, 82 W 3rd St, New York, NY 10012, USA
About the Event
Program Note by composer Theodore Wiprud
I composed Vinea Gloriosa as a brief, brilliant signature work for the Gloriosa Trio. I was struck by the extravagant beauty of the flower from which the trio takes its name, an improbable lily that grows in wild profusion in some tropical climes. I set the opulence of its flower in counterpoint with the tenacity of its tendrils – snaking vines adorned with blossoms. The title – Latin for “glorious vine” – invokes not the actual name of the plant, but my two-fold inspiration.
About Gloriosa Trio
“Driven by lush violin-and-cello unison melodies” and a timbre that is “fuller than the brain imagines three musicians can sound” (Jon Sobel, BlogCritics), the Gloriosa Piano Trio burst onto the music scene in January 2014 as brightly as the flame lily for which the group is named. The trio’s carefully-crafted thematic programs delivered in exuberant performance have…