Solo Piano & a Piano Trio in a West Village Townhouse

Join us in celebrating Ravel’s 150th birthday!

Maurice Ravel and Jean-Phillip Rameau each use sound as a medium to depict colorful caricatures of mundane and fantastical subjects. The program intersperses short character pieces, ultimately concluding with Ravel’s existentially difficult and equally beautiful Piano Trio in A Minor.

Rameau - Les tendres plaintes
Rameau - Les Cyclopes
Ravel - Oiseau tristes
Rameau - Rappel des oiseau
Ravel - Une barque sur l’ocean
Ravel - Alborada del grazioso

Intermission

Ravel - Piano Trio in A Minor

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About the performers:

🎹American pianist and composer Owen Dodds leads a diverse and stimulating musical life, driven by his desire to share the music he enjoys. A native of North Carolina, Owen currently resides in New York, where he performs as classical soloist, chamber musician, song writer, and composer. He has recently appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre, and Rockwood Music Hall. An active collaborator and chamber musician, Owen is a member of the Béla Trio with clarinetist Kelsi Doolittle and violinist Stephanie Bonk, which was recently awarded the Donald Spieth Prize for chamber music. Owen’s modern-folk duo, Early Gray, with guitarist Drake Duffer, has released two albums of original music. They have collaborated with artists including Gabriel Kahane and Tanner Porter and were featured on PBS North Carolina.

🎻 Known for his sophisticated interpretation and warm tone, Hudson Chung, born in Jerusalem, Israel, began playing the violin at 6. Making his debut with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at 12, he was commended by Israel’s 5th president, Itzhak Navon, who became his patron for his music studies in Israel. Since then, he has performed in venues worldwide, winning competitions from a young age. He won 1st place awards in the America-Israeli Foundation Sharett Scholarship Program, Tel Aviv (2006); Kukmin Daily News Competition, Seoul (2007); Youngsan Young Artist Competition, Seoul (2008); and New York International Music Competition (2012). In addition, he is an active chamber musician, collaborating with artists such as Gil Shaham, Paul Huang, Ani Kavafian, Melissa Reardon, Melvin Chen, and Raman Ramakrishnan. Mr. Chung has also been invited to perform at various festivals, such as Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, and Keshet Eilon. An alumnus of the Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and New England Conservatory, he studied with renowned pedagogues such as Hyo Kang, Miriam Fried, and Paul Biss.

🎻 Cellist Gustavo Antoniacomi has been on stages across the U.S, Europe and South America both as a chamber musician and a recitalist. He is currently a candidate from the Doctoral performing program at Stony Brook University, and he has recently graduated from the Juilliard School where he studied with cellist Phoebe Carrai. Besides his experience with the 19th and 20th century repertoire, Gustavo is a baroque cello specialist and has performed with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Les Arts Florescent, Juilliard Baroque and other mainstream historical ensembles. Some critical review articles have appraised Antoniacomi’s playing as “superb” and “so engaging” The Winston-Salem Journal. He has shared the stage with conductors such as, Gustavo Dudamel, John Williams, Pablo Heras Cassado, Richard Egarr, Masaaki Suzuki, William Christie, among other names. Gustavo has worked as a mentor at the Juilliard pre-College program and has joined the faculty team at the Sphinx Performance Academy summer program in New York City for 2022 and 2023.