Red Cedar Chamber Music presents Reunion Redux

Featuring:
Miera Kim, violin
Oliver Bostian, viola
Carey Bostian, cello

Red Cedar Chamber Music’s Directors and core ensemble, violinist Miera Kim and cellist Carey Bostian, will be joined by violist Oliver Bostian to present Reunion Redux, a program of music for string trio.

The program features the viola as soloist in Bach’s Sonata in G minor for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord Obligato with the violin and cello taking the right and left hands of the harpsichord part. Kodály’s Intermezzo opens the program. The short work comes from the early years of his career (1905) when he and his close friend Bartók were just beginning to compose in earnest and had begun collecting folk music on wax cylinders, first in Hungary and then all over Europe. Also on the program is the String Trio by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Castelnuovo-Tedesco is familiar to Red Cedar audiences as he was one of the most prolific composers for guitar in the twentieth century. His string trio, in three movements, is incredibly lyrical but closes with a very rhythmic and guitar-like Vivace.

Two living composers are featured on the program. Costa Rican clarinetist and composer Vinicio Meza has captured the Latin American style with his Suite latinoamericana. In four parts, it includes a tango, a waltz and two choro (one slow and one fast). We also commissioned our friend, Iowa City violist and composer Brian Lenth, to write a work for this concert. His new piece, again and again and again, is a rhythmically driving work that will leave the audience (and performers) breathless.

Special thanks to Artist Sponsor Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC.