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The Arsenal Trio Celebrates Mises

July 24, 2007
Mises Institute Conservatory at 7:00pm. Public is invited.

bosenThis wonderful, professional trio will take your breath away in this concert in honor of Mises and the soon-to-be release biography. At 7:00pm on this evening, they will play:
  •  Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio
    • I: Modere
    • II: Pantoum
    • III: Passacaille
    • IV: Final
  • Beethoven, Piano trio Op. 70-2 in E flat Major
    • Poco sostenuto: Allegro ma non troppo
    • Allegretto
    • Allegretto ma non troppo
    • Finale: Allegro

Mises Institute members, students, faculty, and the public is invited to attend. A recording will be made for later distribution.

In just a short time, the Arsenal Trio has covered considerable ground both musically and geographically. Performances from New York City to Louisville to Montgomery have delighted audiences with repertoire ranging from Mozart and Schubert to world premieres for piano trio. The Arsenal Trio made its debut at the 2006 University of Louisville New Music Festival with a recital of six world premiere compositions, and will return to the same school of music for a residency in March of 2008. The Trio will also appear at the ClefWorks Music Festival in August 2007, where they will perform the winner of the ClefWorks Composition Competition, Ask the Wind by Michael Todd Barnett.

Pianist Jihye Chang grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and earned her Bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University. She holds Masters and Doctor of Music degrees from Indiana University, where she was a student of Gyorgy Sebok, Reiko Neriki, and Edward Auer. She has been an award-winning Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, and recently completed a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where she focused on the study and performance of the piano etudes of Gyorgy Ligeti and Unsuk Chin.

Violinist Benjamin Sung has just completed a two-year residency as Violin Fellow of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. This fall, he will take a position as Concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, and join the faculties of Minnesota State University and North Dakota State University in Fargo-Moorhead. He holds Masters and Doctor of Music degrees from Indiana University in the studio of Nelli Shkolnikova, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where his teacher was Oleh Krysa.

Cellist Hrant Parsamian is a native of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He has studied with Angelika May at the Hochschule für Musik Wien, and Aldo Parisot at the Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. In 2006, he won second prize in the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition, and was also a finalist in the Carlos Prieto Competition in Mexico City. Mr. Parsamian has appeared at the Orford, Banff, and Santander music festivals, and currently makes his home in New York City.