Works by German and Italian composers, including two major works by J. S. Bach
Ronald Gorevic has had a long and distinguished career as a performer and teacher, on both the violin and viola. As a violist he has been a member of several well known string quartets, spanning over twenty years, and covering most of the quartet repertoire. He has toured throughout the U.S., Germany, Japan, Korea and Australia, and has also been broadcast on radio stations across the U.S., S. German and S.W. German radio, and the Australian Broadcast network. As a violinist Mr. Gorevic has performed recitals in major U.S. cities including New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Atlanta. He has also performed in London, where he gave the British premieres of pieces by Donald Erb and Ned Rorem. Mr. Gorevic is a founding member of the Prometheus Piano Quaret, with which he has recorded piano quartets of Saint-Saens and D’Indy for Centaur. He has also recorded for Koch International and Crystal records. His most recent recording, of Brahms clarinet quintet and trio in Brahms’s own arrangement for viola instead of clarinet, was released in 2010 on the Centaur label. He is also currently on the faculty of Smith College, where he teaches both vioin and viola.
Larry Wallach is a pianist/harpsichordist, composer, and music historian who holds the Livingston Hall Chair in Music at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. He earned a PhD in musicology from Columbia University, where he wrote a dissertation about Charles Ives. His recent activities on harpsichord include organizing and performing a program of music for multiple harpsichords that was heard in Norfolk, Connecticut, Great Barrington, and Albany; chamber music with Stephen Hammer and Lucy Bardo; and playing continuo for the Berkshire Bach Society’s Christmas Oratorio performance under James Bagwell. As a pianist he performs a wide range of repertory, but specializes in American music, particularly that of Charles Ives; today’s performance of the Third Violin Sonata completes a project of playing all four sonatas which was initiated in 1985. He has performed them with violinists Nancy Bracken (of the Boston Symphony), Paul Woodiel, Simon’s Rock senior Marcy Goode, alumna Emily Kalish, and Ronald Gorevic. He also performs frequently with his wife, cellist Anne Legêne, and has appeared with the Simon’s Rock Piano Quartet, the Avanti Wind Quintet, guitarist John Myers, and others. He has composed chamber works for the Prometheus Piano Quartet, the Walden Chamber Players, the Avanti Wind Quintet, guitarist Stephen Aron, the Mannes College Percussion Ensemble, and the Housatonic River Festival. A new work for the Winds in the Wild Trio was premiered last March.
Anne Legêne studied cello with Jean Decroos, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, her native country. She performs a wide range of chamber music, with many of the region's fine musicians, and often with her husband, pianist and harpsichordist Larry Wallach. She has a Graduate Performer's Diploma in Early Music from the Longy School in Cambridge, MA, studying viola da gamba with Jane Hershey and baroque cello with Phoebe Carrai. She was a member of the baroque orchestra "Foundling" in Providence, RI, and has played with ensembles "The Italian Connection" and "Les Inégales," the viol consort "Long and Away", The Harvard Choir and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, and the Berkshire Bach Society. In the summer she teaches at the Early Music Week at World Fellowship Center near Conway, NH. Anne teaches cello and conducts the chamber orchestra at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She teaches cello in her home studio, and for many years was a cello teacher and orchestra conductor at area Waldorf schools.
