BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:443@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240107T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240107T160000 DTSTAMP:20231207T170845Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/zodiac-trio-wolfram-koessel/ SUMMARY:Zodiac Trio with Wolfram Koessel\, Chamber Music at the Clark DESCRIPTION:Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday\, December 5 at 12:00 p.m. noon\, via the following link. General admission seats are $40 \, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only\, valid UID for each stu dent required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limited. \nPurchas es are non-refundable. To receive announcements when concert seats go on s ale\,\nplease sign up for our mailing list.\nSOLD OUT\nWhile we do not mai ntain a wait list\, we do offer same day stand-by seating for all Chamber Music at the Clark concerts. For more information on stand-by seating\, pl ease see here\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\nRichard Danielpour (1956– )\n"Lamentat ions"\n\nJohannes Brahms (1833–1897)\nTrio for Clarinet\, Cello and Pian o\n\nOlivier Messiaen (1908–1992)\nQuartet for the End of Time\n\nZodiac Trio with Wolfram Koessel\n\n\nKliment Krylovskiy\, clarinet\nVanessa Mol lard\, violin\nRiko Higuma\, piano\nwith Wolfram Koessel\, cello\n\nOne of today’s premiere clarinet-violin-piano ensembles\, the Zodiac Trio is k nown for presenting masterpieces for their unconventional instrumentation  alongside hidden gems\, arrangements\, and the occasional duo/solo in a concert experience marked with a special gusto\, virtuosity\, and energy.\ n\nThe Zodiac Trio’s story begins in New York in 2006 when three young m usicians from the Manhattan School of Music decided to join forces in an u nconventional ensemble\, and spearhead a career dedicated to the clarinet- violin-piano instrumentation. The Zodiac Trio was officially launched with a concert at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City and presented to the cl assical music listeners by WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase. Understanding t hat extraordinary results require extraordinary efforts\, one year after i ts founding the newly-minted Zodiac Trio decided to move to Paris to atten d the Paris Conservatory under the guidance of the Ysaye Quartet and their unique chamber music program – becoming the first American group and fi rst ensemble with a wind instrument to be accepted to the program.  Their formative years in Paris were laced with victories on the international c hamber music circuit\, with prizes from the Cziffra Foundation\, the FNAPE C Chamber Music Competition\, the International Carlo Saliva Competition\, the International Chamber Music Competition Duchi D’Acquaviva\, the Int ernational Chamber Music Competition Val Tidone\, as well as the Yellow Sp rings Chamber Music Competition\, among others. In 2008\, the London-based MUSO magazine took notice and shone light on the ensemble in a two-page f eature.\n\nToday the Zodiac Trio enjoys an international concert schedule that consistently spans three continents and is recognized by many to be o ne of the foremost clarinet-violin-piano ensembles performing today.  Sin ce its formation\, the Zodiac Trio has managed to achieve a level of recog nition on the international chamber music stage\, rarely bestowed upon an ensemble of such untraditional instrumentation.  The Zodiac Trio’s exte nsive touring schedule has brought it to many premiere international venue s such as Ottawa Chamberfest\,  Festival Radio France Montpellier\, Inter national Colmar Festival\, Beijing Performing Arts Center\, Izumi Hall in Japan\, and Lincoln Center in New York.  The trio’s live performances h ave been broadcast by France 3 Television\, Radio Classique\, Beijing’s CCTV News\, Canada’s CBC Radio and Television\, NBC\, New York’s WXQR and WNYC\, Chicago’s WFMT\, Boston’s WGBH\, Italy’s RAI\, and Radio France in Paris.\n\nOver the years\, the Zodiac Trio has garnered wide cri tical acclaim for their unyielding passion for the clarinet-violin-piano i nstrumentation\, their unbending dedication to perfection\, and the thrill of sharing their love for chamber music with their audiences.  The group has been praised for their “impeccable technique” (Fanfare Magazine)\ , "remarkable musicality of rare intensity" (La Tribune\, France)\, “see mingly effortless ease” (San Angelo Standard Times)\, “truly exception al and sublime talent” (Nice-Matin\, France)\; and declared by the Frenc h newspaper La Marseillaise as “one of the best chamber ensembles of its generation...”\n\nSince their first touring season nearly a decade ago\ , the Zodiac Trio has performed in nearly 40 states\, as well as Canada\, Sweden\, Scotland\, France\, Italy\, Switzerland\, Germany\, Japan and\, n otably\, in over 30 different cities in China over the span of four extens ive tours.  In addition to performing\, the ensemble has been invited to present master classes and clinics at such institutions as the Manhattan S chool of Music\, San Francisco Conservatory\, Roosevelt University\, Unive rsity of Minnesota\, Tulsa University\, University of Missouri\, Western M ichigan University\, Colorado College\, Boston Conservatory\, Berklee Coll ege of Music\, Tufts University\, Southeastern University of Oklahoma\, Ch ina Conservatory of Beijing\, Mount Allison University\, Acadia University \, and many others.\n\nConsidering its novel instrumentation\, the Zodiac Trio has carried the torch for new music since its debut concert\, which f eatured a world premiere of a work written for the then newly-formed group .  Since then\, the Zodiac Trio has commissioned over three dozen new wor ks\, including from Grammy-award-winning composer Richard Danielpour\, and has had over 100 works written via call-for-score.  Their 2015 album DRE AMTIME featured 3 works written for the ensemble\, and received accolades from the new music community with Sequenza21 writing “the Zodiac Trio ex cel at bringing new compositions to life.”\n\nIn 2013\, wanting to furth er incorporate pedagogy into their modus operandi\, the Zodiac Trio found ed an international chamber music academy and festival in the South of Fra nce: Zodiac Music Academy &\; Festival (www.zodiacfestival.com).  The summer festival invites highly advanced students and pre-professionals to spend two weeks performing on the Côte D’Azur and studying with an inte rnationally renowned faculty\, led by the Zodiac Trio. Now in its seventh season\, ZMAF  has grown to be recognized as a competitive and selective academy that attracts over 200 applications each year from many top school s across North America.\n\nThe Zodiac Trio is represented exclusively by L atitude 45 Arts (www.latitude45arts.com).\n\nhttps://www.zodiactrio.com/\n \nWolfram Koessel\n​\nSince his critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut \, cellist Wolfram Koessel has embarked on a diverse career as a soloist\, recitalist\, and chamber musician\, performing internationally in the wor ld’s most distinguished concert halls. The Strad magazine wrote of "the exceptionally attractive cello playing of Wolfram Koessel\," who has estab lished himself as a sought-after musician\, performing concertos with the Jupiter Symphony\, the New York Metamorphoses Orchestra (which he co-found ed in 1994)\, Jerusalem Symphony\, the Osaka Symphony\, the Mannes Orches tra\, and symphony orchestras in Stuttgart\, Cordoba\, Mendoza\, Costa Ric a\, Iowa\, and New York.\n\nIn 2006 Mr. Koessel joined the American String Quartet\, with whom he performs regularly at the Berlin Philharmonie\, Am sterdam's Concertgebouw\, Köln Philharmonic Hall\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and Kimmel Center\, among others.  He has performed with artists s uch as Rene Fleming\, Richard Stolzman\, Edgar Meyer\, Menahem Pressler\, Zakir Hussain\, Ute Lemper\, Sharon Kam\, Jeremy Denk\, and many more.\n\n He is on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Manhattan School of Mu sic and also in residence at the Aspen Music Festival and the Great Wall A cademy in China. He served as Music Director of the Mark Morris Dance Grou p from 2004–2008 and has toured extensively with the company\, performin g hundreds of concerts and world premieres with them worldwide.\n\nBased i n New York City\, Mr. Koessel appears with a wide range of ensembles and c hamber music groups such as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York Phi lharmonic. Performances in 2019–20 led Mr. Koessel to Japan\, Germany\, South America\, Spain\, Canada\, Mexico\, and across the United States. He is a founding member of the group Trio Ink\, with violinist Yosuke Kawasa ki and pianist Vadim Serebryany.\n\nhttps://www.wolframkoessel.com/\n\n\n\ nChamber Music at the Clark\nProfessor Rogers Brubaker\, Artistic Director \n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation \, under the auspices of Lee Walcott\; The Colburn Foundation\; Martha Bar dach\; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Barbara Timmer\; Dr. Rogers Bru baker\; Dr. Susan Harris and Mark Harris\; Judy Hellinger\; Henry J. Bruma n Endowment for Chamber Music\; Dr. Sheldon H. Kardener and Monika Olofsso n Kardener\; Elaine and Bernie Mendes\; Janet Minami\; Bette I. and Jeffre y L. Nagin\; Dr. Jeanne Robson\; Carol E. Sandberg\; Jackie Schwartz\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Patricia Wa ldron\, M.D.\, and Richard Waldron\; and Roberta and Robert Young.\n\nPlea se see here for more information about our chamber music programs.\n\n\n\n Composite image: Photograph courtesy of Wolfram Koessel. Zodiac Trio photo graph credit: Marta Krakowka\, courtesy of the artists. 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