Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series presents: Jacques Thibaud Trio Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. at the Gualala Arts Center

Canceled due to illness

Canceled

Gualala Arts will host the Jacques Thibaud Trio on Sunday, March 7 at 4:00 p.m.

Prize-winners in the prestigious 1999 Bonn Chamber Music Competition, the Jacques Thibaud String Trio was founded at the Berlin School of Art in 1994. Since then, the ensemble has performed throughout Europe, Japan and over 40 States of the U.S., receiving tremendous acclaim from audiences and critics alike.

"This could be the first string trio in some time to have a major career. The overall excellence of these technically accomplished players does not obscure their individual qualities. The cellist plays with hearty tone and supple rhythmic vitality. Burkhard Maiss's violin sound is rich and warm, like full-bodied red wine, and Philip Douvier's viola sound is bright and clear, like a violin's. In fact, it's easy to mistake one player for the other when you are not watching." (New York Times, 1999)

With their charm, youthful exuberance and astounding virtuosity, the Trio has delighted audiences of all ages in large and small venues. In the U.S., they have appeared at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Walter Reade Theatre, New York City's Frick Collection (twice), Washington DC's National Gallery, hundreds of other venues including Stanford University, the Caramoor and Bravo! Vail Valley Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and cities including Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Memphis, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Tucson, Salt Lake City and Honolulu.

As Ensemble-in-Residence at the 2001 Florida International Festival, they drew an audience of over two thousand to their final concert. They have also given successful residencies in settings ranging from conservatories to music camps to an Indian reservation in Arizona. In Canada, the Jacques Thibaud String Trio performed in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, featuring the distinguished Anton Kuerti as their guest pianist.

Internationally, the Trio has appeared at London's Wigmore Hall, in Germany at Berlin's Konzerthaus and Philharmonie, at the Alte Oper Frankfurt and at the Musikhalle Hamburg, in Japan on several concert tours in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and Nagano, at the Seoul National University in South Korea, and at some of Europe's most prestigious festivals including the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Germany, Belgium's Musica Mundi (three return invitations), Denmark's Roskilde Festival and Gidon Kremer's Echternach Festival in Luxembourg.

Recent activities included an appearance at the 2006 Mostly Mozart Festival at New York City's Lincoln Center, UCLA's prestigious Schoenberg Hall series (performing Schubert's "Trout" and the Hummel Quintets with musical colleagues from Japan and Brazil), Chicago, Princeton University, Washington D.C. (televised and broadcast on radio worldwide by Voice of America), several tours with flutist Eugenia Zukerman, and breaking the venerable Music Mountain Festival's long-standing "string quartets only" policy, receiving an immediate return invitation!

Tickets are $20 for advance purchases; $5 more on the day of the concert (buy your tickets early!). Children and young people ages 7 through 17 are admitted free.

For advance purchase, go to Brown Paper Tickets or call them at 800-838-3006.
To purchase in person, visit the Gualala Arts Center or Dolphin Gallery in Gualala.

The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Gualala Road in Gualala, CA,
is open weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and weekends from noon to 4:00 p.m.
Please call (707) 884-1138 for more information, or email info@gualalaarts.org.