Passeri
| Passeri* trio features violist/violinist Elizabeth Reid and cellist Michael Close along with flutist Lisa Carlson. Elizabeth Reid studied viola performance at the University of Western Ontario and the Glenn Gould School (RCM) in Toronto. Her teachers included Betty-Jean Hagen, Ralph Aldrich, Lorand Fenyves, and Rennie Regehr. She has performed across Canada and the United States as a soloist and chamber musician, including the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto, Hertz Hall in Berkeley, the Mozart Festival in Thunder Bay, and the Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society. Ms. Reid has also played principal viola in the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Banff Opera Orchestra, and the National Orchestral Institute. She has a strong interest in contemporary music and ha been involved in many premieres of solo and chamber works in Canada and the United States. In Vermont Elizabeth has played with Counterpoint, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Hanover Chamber Orchestra, the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Arioso, and Capital City Concerts. Formerly a faculty member at the Monteverdi School in Montpelier, she now teaches violin and viola at home in Northfield. |
| Michael Close is currently the principal cellist with the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra in addition to several other orchestral and chamber ensembles. He will be featured in the March 2011 MCO concerts as both soloist in Tchaikowsky's "Andante Cantabile" and composer in his"Tango 1" for string orchestra, An active composer, he has been a composer–mentor with the Vermont Midi Project since 2004. He graduated from Bennington College in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in music composition and a master of arts in education. He teaches cello at Monteverdi Music School as well as the Vermont String School, in addition to general music at Moretown Elementary. Michael is also an avid bagpiper and a member of the Catamount Pipe Band. |
| *"Passeri" is Latin for "songbird." |
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| Please click the arrow above the picture for our background sound sampler, or see below for individual music selections available so far. |
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| Music Samples Excerpts from Haydn's London Trio No. 1 in C: Allegro Moderato Andante Finale: Vivace Danube Waves by Ivanovici Excerpts from Handel's Water Music Suites: Air Allegro Hornpipe Excerpts from Corelli's Trio Sonata in F: Grave more movements should arrive shortly! Morag of Dunvegan traditional Celtic waltz Soon to come: YouTube videos, plus: Jewish wedding suite by Michael Isaacson Lover's Waltz by Jay Unger and Molly Mason more Corelli. Please check back! |