Raman Ramakrishnan in Chamber Music Quad Cities: “A Cello-bration" at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral -- March 10.
Sunday, March 10, 3 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 121 West 12th Street, Davenport IA
Performing in a special Chamber Music Quad Cities concert at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall on March 10, Quad City Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Hannah Holman and guest cellist Raman Ramakrishnan team up with CMQC co-directors Gregory and Thomas Sauer for an afternoon of solos, duos, and trios for cello and piano in A Cello-bration, a fun-filled salute to the prince of string instruments.
An active chamber musician, Hannah Holman studied at the Eastman School of Music and Michigan State University, where she completed her Bachelor of Music degree, and obtained her Master of Music Degree with Fritz Magg at the New England Conservatory. A founding member of the Beaumont Piano Trio, which performed around the United States and England, Holman was also a founding member of Quadrivinium, a music ensemble-in-residence at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. From 2002 to 2011, she was a member of the Maia Quartet, the University of Iowa's quartet-in-residence, which toured China, Japan, and throughout the United States, including teaching residencies at Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Great Wall International Music Academy in China, and the Austin Chamber Music Center. Holman regularly performs in chamber ensembles with musicians from throughout the United States, and Fanfare magazine raved that “her tone and technique are the stuff that cello legends are made of.”
For two decades, as a founding member of the Horszowski Trio and the Daedalus Quartet, cellist Raman Ramakrishnan has toured extensively through North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and recorded for Bridge Records and Avie Records, including, most recently, the complete piano trios of Robert Schumann. Ramakrishnan is currently an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. The musician has given solo recitals in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., and has performed at Caramoor, at Bargemusic, with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and at the Aspen, Bard, Charlottesville, Four Seasons, Kingston, Lincolnshire (UK), Marlboro, Mehli Mehta (India), Oklahoma Mozart, Portland, Skaneateles, and Vail Music Festivals. As a guest member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, Ramakrishnan also performed in New Delhi, India, and Egypt, and the cellist has served on the faculties of the Kneisel Hall, Norfolk, and Taconic Chamber Music Festivals.
Cellist Gregory Sauer has appeared in recital at the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco, Vanderbilt University, Rice University, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and the Brightmusic Concert Series in Oklahoma City, among many others throughout the U.S. Sauer has performed concertos with orchestras such as the Houston Symphony, the Quad City Symphony, the Columbus (GA) Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Missoula Symphony, and as a member of Trio Solis, he performed in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. The musician has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, MSR Classics, and Mark Records, and Sauer holds the positions of principal cello of the Tallahassee Symphony and assistant principal of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. He served nine seasons as principal cellist of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra, and was appointed to the music faculty at Florida State University in 2006. He taught for 11 years at the University of Oklahoma, and was named Presidential Professor in 2005.
Pianist Thomas Sauer is highly sought after as a soloist and chamber musician in a wide range of repertoire. Recent appearances include Carnegie Hall, St. John’s College, Oxford, and the Chamber Music Societies of Lincoln Center, Boston, and Philadelphia, and with his longtime duo partner Colin Carr, Sauer has appeared at the Wigmore Hall (London), the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), and Da Camera (Houston). Additionally, he has performed with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress and given numerous concerts with the Brentano String Quartet. Sauer’s varied discography includes recordings of Beethoven and Haydn piano sonatas; with Colin Carr, the complete cello and piano works of Mendelssohn and Beethoven; music of Hindemith with violist Misha Amory; music of Britten and Schnittke with cellist Wilhelmina Smith; and music of James Matheson.
Chamber Music Quad Cities' A Cello-bration will take place in the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral's Parish Hall on March 10 at 3 p.m., admission is $20 for adults and $5 for students, and more information and tickets are available by visiting ChamberMusicQC.org.
