MOSSO at Sevenars
MOSSO HORN TRIO
Beth Welty, Violin
Sarah Sutherland, Horn
Elizabeth Skavish, Piano
PROGRAM
Frédéric Duvernoy - Trio No. 1 for Violin, Horn, and Piano
Trygve Madsen - Trio, Op. 110 for Violin, Horn, and Piano
Max Mueller - “Triptych” for Violin, Horn, and Piano
*World Premiere
Johannes Brahms - Trio in Eb Major for Violin, Horn, and Piano
Sevenars Academy
15 South Ireland Street, Rte. 112
South Worthington, MA 01098
Sunday, July 23, 2023
4:00 PM
*Reservations are not required or taken. All are welcome on first-come-first-served basis.
There is, as ever, no required admission cost, however donations are welcome at the door by cash or check. ($20 per person is suggested to help defray expenses).
Call 413-238-5854 if you have questions.
MUSICIANS
Beth Welty received her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in violin performance from Indiana University, where she was a student of Yuval Yaron. She has performed with numerous groups in the Boston area, including the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Society, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. She has performed abroad with various organizations, touring Italy with the Chorus of Westerly, and South Africa with the London Chamber Players. She toured Spain twice as concertmaster of the Massachusetts Symphony. In 2014, she traveled to Switzerland to perform a solo recital, and in 2015 did a five-concert tour of England with the Aryaloka String Quartet. Beth is the assistant principal second violinist with the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra, and has served as concertmaster of the Nashua Chamber Orchestra since 2005.
An avid chamber musician, Beth is a founding member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble, as well as the Keep it Fresh Quartet. In 1991 she made her Lincoln Center debut in New York with the Boston Quartet, of which she was also a founding member. She maintains a private teaching studio in her home in Waltham, and is a teacher at the Upbeat NH Strings program in Nashua, NH. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and making stoneware pottery.
Sarah Sutherland is a Boston-based musician who performs and teaches throughout the Northeast. She is currently the third horn in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, hornist in the Back Bay Brass Quintet, and the Finance Officer for the Musicians of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MOSSO). Ms. Sutherland has performed and recorded with many ensembles, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company, and was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow for two summers. She teaches privately, at Powers Music School in Belmont, and at Wellesley Public Schools. Ms. Sutherland graduated from Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, and New England Conservatory, where she studied with James Sommerville and Jason Snider. She holds degrees in music, mathematics, and statistics.
Elizabeth Skavish is a pianist of striking versatility. Her performance credits include solo recitals, concertos, chamber music, contemporary music, and orchestral piano in venues including Symphony Hall, the Wang Theatre, Jordan Hall, Shalin Liu Performance Center, and the French Library of Boston. Ms. Skavish’s concerto performances have included appearances with the Collegium Musicum Schloss Pommersfelden in Germany, and the Ocean State Chamber Orchestra in Rhode Island. Ms. Skavish performs frequently with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra as an orchestral pianist. She has had chamber music residencies at the Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory with Trio Capriccio, of which she was a founding member, and has collaborated with members of the Boston, Pittsburgh, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. She is also a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. Ms. Skavish was invited to give a lecture recital by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston in Sanders Theatre on “Beethoven and the Development of the Piano,” and by the European Listening and Health Care Conference in Nijmegen, Netherlands on “Listening for Emotion in Music and Human Interaction.” Ms. Skavish is on the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and is a recipient of the University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Award. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory. Her principal teachers have been Randall Hodgkinson, Joseph Schwartz, Eugene List, Peter Takács, and Maria Caruso.
Max Mueller is a Los Angeles-based film composer, educator, and performer who has been involved in music education for the past 2 decades. Max began to establish himself in the film music world by assisting Academy Award-nominated composer David Newman on reconstructing and re-engraving older film scores for live performance purposes. He has also recently orchestrated Newman’s scores for the movies "Girls Trip" and "Night School," and the Netflix show "Green Eggs and Ham," produced by Ellen DeGeneres. He has composed music for short films for two veteran Disney animators: Pixote Hunt and James Lopez, as well as the LGBTQ horror comedy "Summoning Sylvia" (2023). Max has orchestrated and arranged music for such artists as Mike Garson (pianist for David Bowie), concert violinist Sarah Chang, and events such as the Grammy Awards and the Kennedy Center Honors. As a film composer, Max won Best Score at the New Orleans Horror Film Festival in 2015 for his score to "Trace." He also organized and crowd-funded the first ‘film music’-orchestra-‘flashmob’ at Universal Studios, Hollywood, in tandem with the American Youth Symphony and Hamilton High School in Los Angeles. The performance highlighted the great Universal Pictures film scores. Max is a graduate of the Commercial and Media Writing Program at California State University, Northridge, and continues to look for new ways to combine the practical side of music found in performance, with the creative side found in composing and arranging, in music education. Max also continues to bring awareness to young musicians about balancing private instruction and performing in a community ensemble.
Sevenars Concerts, established in 1968, was selected one of the six best small music festivals in the USA by Time Magazine. Founded by internationally known pianist Robert Schrade and his celebrated composer/songwriter/pianist wife Rolande Young Schrade, it all began with "Family Concerts" starting in 1968 in the small Methodist Church of the idyllic town of South Worthington, Massachusetts, a village now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Robert and Rolande included in their concerts their five young pianist children, Robelyn, Rhonda Lee, Rolisa, Randolph, and Rorianne (hence the name "Sevenars" as all seven performers had names starting with the letter "R"), and concerts drew growing crowds that spilled out of the church. A larger space was needed!
In 1976, the concerts moved across the little street to the historic Academy building, established in 1895 by Russell Conwell, founder of Temple University and author of the famous "Acres of Diamonds" lecture. Sevenars was incorporated as Sevenars Concerts, Inc. and was then able to branch out, becoming an official non-profit organization under IRS Code 509(A)(1), Section 501(c)(3). In the years that followed Sevenars was able to present over 300 guest artists, both world-renowned performers and prizewinning newcomers. Enrichment programs for schoolchildren and arts and crafts exhibits have also been presented, but the concerts were "a natural" - partly due to the in the landmark Academy's miraculous acoustics.
In 1978, Robelyn Schrade, already garnering raves following her sold-out New York recitals, married outstanding New Zealand pianist, David James, and the concerts became "Schrade-James family" concerts. All the young musicians started accumulating accolades in New York and elsewhere, and 1980 saw the New York Lincoln Center Debut of this "Remarkable Assemblage of Pianists" (Allen Hughes, New York Times). The Schrade-James daughter, Lynelle James, arrived in 1985 and joined the concerts at age five (appearing in New York with the family's 25th anniversary Lincoln Center concert), and son Christopher arrived in 1990, also joining the concerts at age five (and appearing in the year 2000 at Lincoln Center).
Though all family members are kept busy with individual concerts, recording, teaching, conducting, and other pursuits (with Christopher James becoming the family's first dedicated cellist!), Sevenars is still run by Schrades and Jameses, with love and devotion.