Warm Prompt:
Children under the age of six or 1.2 meters will not be admitted. Each audience should have a ticket (ID card is also needed) regardless of the age.
 

Violin: Tarn Travers
Violinist Tarn Travers regularly performs throughout the US and abroad as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. A member of the Chicago-based contemporary music group Ensemble Dal Niente and concertmaster of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, his recent performances include solo and chamber music appearances throughout the United States, China, Austria, and Italy. He also performed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and gave a performance of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in Vienna’s Konzerthaus.
 
As a recording artist, Travers has released numerous recordings, including an appearance on Jóhann Jóhannsson’s album Orphée, released in 2015 on the Deutsche Grammphon label. Other releases include an album of chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Brooke Joyce, Maria Newman’s Triple Concerto, Randal Bauer’s Half String Quartet for violin and cello, and music by George Lewis. Upcoming releases include music by Lori Laitman, transcribed for violin by the composer specifically for Travers, and an album of music for two violins featuring music by Eugène Ysaÿe, Sergei Prokofiev, and Paolo Marchettini.
 
As an active pedagogue worldwide, Travers’ current and past teaching appointments include faculty positions at DePauw University, Alpen Kammer Musik in Austria and the International Music Festival of the Adriatic in Italy. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a Doctorate from Stony Brook University in New York, where his primary teachers were Camilla Wicks, Philip Setzer, and Axel Strauss. He plays on a Joseph Curtin violin. Travers currently serves as resident faculty at the Tianjin Juilliard School.
 

Piano: Konstantinos Valianatos
Konstantinos Valianatos has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in North and South America, Asia, and Europe. As an award-winning musician, he won first prizes at the International Seiler Piano Competition, the International Ibiza Piano Competition, the Senigallia International Piano Competition, the San Gemini International Piano Competition, and the Aspen Music Festival Competition, among others. Valianatos was awarded many scholarships from Gina Bachauer, Yamaha, Onassis, I.K.Y., George and Marie Vergottis Foundation, and the Starr Foundation. He was honored by the President of Greece, Kostis Stefanopoulos, with the highest accolade from the Academy of Athens in Greece for his work and artistic integrity.
 
Valianatos collaborated with numerous orchestras and performed in venues such as the White House, Salle Cortot in Paris, Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Recital Halls, Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City, Benedict Music Tent and Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, O’Neill Hall at the University of Notre Dame, Irving Arts Center, Garland Symphony Orchestra, Thessaloniki Megaron, and Athens Megaron.
 
He is a founding member of the award-winning Olympus Piano Trio. Valianatos recorded works by Mendelssohn, Ravel, Hatzis, and Smirnov for LP Classics and Naxos. An advocate for new music, he works with living composers and has premiered their works, such as Christos Hatzis’s piano work, Face to Face.
 
Valianatos held teaching residencies and taught master classes in music institutions, including Texas Christian University, Northern Michigan State University, C’est Bon Chamber Music Festival, and the New Conservatory of Alimos. He taught as a lecturer at West Virginia University and served on the piano faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Preparatory Program and WVU’s Community Music Program.
 
A native of Athens, Greece, Valianatos holds diplomas from the National Conservatory of Greece and the Ecole Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot” in Paris. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees from Juilliard. His mentors include Agathe Leimoni, Germaine Mounier, Jerome Lowenthal, Julian Martin, and Yoheved Kaplinsky. Valianatos currently serves as resident faculty at the Tianjin Juilliard School.
 
Program
Heinrich Biber: Passacaglia in g minor “The Guardian Angel”
Mozart: Sonata in G Major, K.379
Bartok: Violin and Piano Rhapsody No.1
Lori Laitman: Journey (For Violin and Piano)
Debussy: Sonata
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite (Arr. by Heifetz)
 
(Please check program updates at the concert.)