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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lois R. Beznos FARMINGTON HILLS, MI, December 4, 2003 – The Chamber Music Society of Detroit today announced that the first Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA) has been awarded to the Claremont Trio. After a call for nominations sent internationally to 1200 musicians and other classical music professionals, the trio was selected at Carnegie Hall in New York on December 2nd by a panel which was comprised of musicians Richard Goode, Jaime Laredo, Robert McDonald, Sharon Robinson, and Joel Smirnoff and two presenters, Lois R. Beznos, Chamber Music Society of Detroit and Ara Guzelimian, Carnegie Hall. The Claremont Trio, pianist Donna Kwong, violinist Emily Bruskin and cellist Julia Bruskin, won the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and consequently made their New York debut at the 92nd Street Y. The Trio also debuted in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and in Washington, DC at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The Claremont Trio holds the Helen F. Whitaker Chamber Music Chair of Young Concert Artists. The Trio, formed at the Taos School of Music in 1999, has participated in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall, was recently presented by the Alexander Schneider Chamber Music Series, and has performed at the Lucerne, Ravinia, Bard, Norfolk and Moab festivals. In a precedent-setting move, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA) was formulated and developed by Lois R. Beznos under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. The Award is believed to be the first piano trio award in the world of classical music and the only such award to be administered by a presenting organization. “One of the purposes of the award is to contribute to the proliferation of chamber music and to the health of presenting organizations by identifying deserving ensembles; many presenters worldwide have expressed their enthusiasm for this award and their plans to present the winning trios. The award will benefit many people—accomplished young musicians and multitudes of audience members—all over the world.” The KLRITA is a biennial piano trio award based upon an impetus to encourage and enhance the careers of accomplished and extraordinarily promising young piano trios (piano-violin-cello), which will be chosen every other year in perpetuity. The trios, to be considered, must have been together as ensembles for approximately five to ten years, have agency management and already be actively engaged in touring. First announced in December 2001 at Carnegie Hall, the KLRITA award honors the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio’s 27 years of artistic achievement and its contribution to classical music worldwide. Formulated during and despite the most difficult economic climate, the KLRITA is supported in part by the contribution of $30,000 by each of twenty participating chamber music presenters. A unique advantage to presenters is that, in perpetuity, the presenter will have the benefit of an endowed concert, paid for by the award endowment fund, every other season. Additional support has been contributed by Samuel and Jean Frankel and by the Matilda R. Wilson Fund. The winning trios will benefit from presentation on the series of all of the participating trio award presenters. The following chamber music presenting organizations have committed towards the KLRITA endowment fund to participate in the award: Ames Town & Gown Music Association Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Carnegie Hall Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts Chamber Music Monterey Bay Chamber Music Sedona Chamber Music Society of Detroit Chamber Music Society of Louisville Chamber Music Society of Utica Cincinnati Chamber Music Society Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland El Camino College Center for the Arts Friends of Chamber Music - Kansas City Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts Purdue Convocations - PurdueUniversity San Antonio Chamber Music Society Stanford Lively Arts Thomasville Entertainment Foundation In addition to being presented on the series of the presenters, the winning trio will benefit from a loan by Machold Rare Violins, one of the leading dealers in fine-stringed instruments since 1861, Machold will lend violins and cellos to award-winning trio members for the two-year periods of each award. The violinist and cellist of each award-winning trio will perform on these rare instruments as they tour the U.S. and internationally, when they are presented by the twenty participating presenters and by other presenters during the two-year award period. As a further benefit to the winning trio, Arabesque Recordings, LLC will produce a CD recording of the ensemble and will make the recording available at the twenty presenter sites. For additional information, please visit the Chamber Music Society web site, www.ComeHearCMSD.org and follow the link to the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award. For more information about the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, please visit www.franksalomon.com. Significant recognition opportunities are also available for additional major donors to the award endowment. For information, please contact Lois Beznos, President, Chamber Music Society of Detroit at 248-737-9980. The Chamber Music Society of Detroit office mailing address is: 31731 Northwestern Highway, Suite 168 West, Farmington Hills, MI, 48334. Return to the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award |
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