Bing Productions Presents
MOSSO – SCP 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
*Work commissioned by MOSSO *World premiere on July 23, 2023
Johannes Brahms - Trio in Eb Major for Violin, Horn, and Piano
Trinity United Methodist Church
361 Sumner Avenue
Springfield, MA
September 23, 2023 7:30 PM
Tickets (on sale August 1) at Bing Productions
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.