Firebird Trio: American Horizons

With Paul Dean (Clarinet) and Curt Thompson (Violin)

Sebastian Currier – Verge for clarinet, violin and piano
Paul Schoenfield – Café Music
Benjamin Martin – Ragtime for piano trio (2015)
Leonard Bernstein – Piano Trio (1937)

To wrap up the year Firebird explores the modern American scene with works by two Juilliard School composers Sebastian Currier and resident pianist/composer Benjamin Martin.  Schoenfield’s infectious Café Music is infused with jazz and folk roots,  and sits playfully alongside Leonard Bernstein’s rhythmic Piano Trio. Firebird welcomes to the program the brilliance of clarinetist Paul Dean, and the virtuosity of Guest Violin, Dr. Curt Thompson.