Premier Duo, STL​ & Beethoven Trio

Carl Nielsen: The Fog is Lifting, Op. 41

Bernard Andrés: Algues, 7 piéces   

Adrian Shaposhnikov: Sonata for flute and harp 
I. Andante con moto
II. Menuetto. Allegretto
III. Allegro molto
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Beethoven: String Trio  C Minor No. 3
I. Allegro con spirito 
II. Adagio con espressione 
III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace - Trio
IV. Finale. Presto 

Date: November 14th, 2022.
​Time: 7:30pm
Location: Sts Peters and Paul Cathedral 
Address: 1919 S 7th St, St. Louis, MO 63104
Admission: Free

Concert Artists

Jennifer Gartley / Flute

Megan Stout / Harp

Matt Pickart / Viola

Jun Seo / Cello

Pavel Ilyashov / Violin

Carl Nielsen: The Fog is Lifting, Op. 41
Carl Nielsen was born in 1865 in a small village on the Island of Funen, in Sortelung, Denmark. Nielsen’s father made a living painting houses but was also an amateur fiddler and cornetist. His mother would often sing folk songs around the Nielsen household and helped instill a love of music in her 12 children. Nielsen studied violin, piano, and composition from the age of six, and
in 1979 he joined a Danish military band as a bugler and trombonist. In 1884 Nielsen received permission to leave the military band and study violin and music theory at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. After graduation he supported himself by first playing in the second violin section of the Royal Danish Orchestra and then later conducting. He also taught private lessons and received support from his patrons who funded his composition projects. It wasn’t until the success of his first symphony in 1894 that Nielsen’s career as a composer really took off. For the next thirty years he was often in demand as a composer and was awarded a teaching position at the Royal Danish Academy. He remained a professor at the academy until his death in 1931.

In 1920 he wrote the incidental music for Moderen or The Mother, a play by Helge Rode. The play was commissioned by the Danish Royal Theater and was performed to celebrate the reunification of Southern Jutland with Denmark. The Fog is Lifting is a short piece of incidental music from the play.

Bernard Andrés: Algues, 7 Piéces
Bernard Andrés is a living composer born in Belfort, France in 1941. Andrés started piano lessons at the age of five and began composing at the age of eight. He would continue to play piano and compose throughout his life, and at the age of 19 he discovered the harp. It soon became his primary instrument. He received top honors from the Paris National Conservatory and went on to play principal harp in the Air Force Army Orchestra and the Symphonic Orchestra of Ile de France. He retired from his principal harp positions in 2005, and currently continues to compose for a variety of ensembles and instruments. Algues is a collection of seven lyrical pieces for harp and flute. It can also be a duo for harp and violin or harp and oboe.

Adrian Shaposhnikov: Sonata for Flute and Harp
Adrian Shaposhnikov lived from 1888- 1967. He was a composer and pianist born in the Soviet Union in what is now Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was a People's Artist of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Shaposhnikov’s compositions are not widely known. The Sonata for Flute and Harp is his most famous work.

Beethoven: String Trio in C Minor, No. 3
Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in December of 1770 in Bonn, Germany. Whether one realizes or not, there is rarely someone who hasn’t heard the famous theme of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Beethoven’s music has been performed countless times by musicians around the world for more than two centuries! Most recently his music has been used in numerous movie soundtracks and referenced in pop music. Beethoven was only 27 years old when he began to compose his string trios from Op. 9. Between the years of 1797 and 1798 he completed three trios, consisting of four movements each, for violin, viola, and cello. It is interesting to know that during this time Beethoven was very proud of his trios and considered them among the best of his compositions. However, he never returned to composing string trios again after his Op. 18 string quartets were published in 1801.