We apologize for the sound issues in the first 3 minutes of the recording.
For donations to the performing musicians:
Thursday, December 9th, 2021, 7:30 pm
Piano on Park Live presents:
Cyrus von Hochstetter - piano
with Louis Arques - clarinet
Henry Griffin - baritone
Program:
W. A. Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
F. Schubert: Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946
B. Bartok: Suite for Piano Op. 14
// intermission //
Cyrus von Hochstetter:
Zero Night - for baritone and piano (2014)
on a poem by Armando Feler
Henry Griffin - baritone
Feuillet d’Album pour clarinette et piano (2020)
Louis Arques - clarinet
Red River - for baritone, clarinet and piano (2021)
on “Virginia” by T.S. Eliot
Suite for Clarinet (2020)
I. Prelude
II. Sicilienne
III. Sarabande
IV. Intermezzo
V. Gigue
S. Rachmaninoff:
Polichinelle, Op. 3 No. 4 (arranged for clarinet and piano by Cyrus von Hochstetter)
As a pianist, composer, songwriter and educator, Cyrus von Hochstetter has always forged his own creative path, listening to his own inner muse in developing a uniquely personal style. As a teacher, he is motivating youngsters to follow their individual musical instincts and interests. In addition to teaching piano, Cyrus developed an innovative composition class that encourages pupils to start envisioning and writing their music right away. This lead to public performances of pieces written by these young composers at the MET Museum.
A firm believer in the transformative power of music, Cyrus shares his knowledge of the deeper layer of music to general audiences through his informative and entertaining YouTube video-tour “My Music Notes”.
With his extensive training in both classical and jazz, Cyrus has straddled many musical worlds. He has performed extensively as a pianist in concerts throughout the world—including in Switzerland, Israel, Hungary and the US— and with the band Cyrus von H and the Hat Music, playing at Joe’s Pub in NYC among other venues. The group, versatile in style and range, could move fluidly from performing Cyrus’s original compositions and songs - an amalgam of jazz, blues, folk, rockabilly and cabaret - to interpretations of Schönberg piano works—transformed by Cyrus for a jazz ensemble—to his rearrangements of pieces by Ellington and Gershwin.
Since 2008, Cyrus has studied piano and performance under Zitta Zohar, whose teachings continues to be at the heart of his musical education.
Cyrus graduated from the Manhattan School of Music and earned a masters degree in interactive telecommunications from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Louis Arques is a clarinet virtuoso, saxophonist, singer and conductor. One of the City’s most in-demand artist, he plays Classical and Contemporary music, as well as Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Jazz music and Early music on period instruments.
As a soloist, Louis performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Empire State Symphony, the Debussy Clarinet Rhapsody with Camerata New York and the Zych Bass Clarinet concerto with Paris Ostinato Orchestra.
Passionate about orchestra, he is principal clarinet of the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, also occasionally joining the young talents of the Miami New World Symphony.
Sought after chamber music partner, he multiplies collaborations with ensembles including the internationally acclaimed Quintet of the Americas and the City’s finest players of the Metropolis Ensemble. Louis regularly performs recitals in the US with pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev (ABT) and in France with pianist Nima Sarkechik with whom he recorded a Brahms Sonatas album. He recently joined the Bridget Kibbey’s Bach to Brazil Trio and finds the most thrill touring the U.S. concert series and university residencies with them.
Advocating for contemporary music he constantly creates works by composers from the United-States and Europe.
His love for the Afro-American rhythms led him to co-found Diálogos Duo with guitarist-composer Richard Boukas. Together they independently released two albums and became the Brazilian music duo with the largest body of original works for clarinet and guitar. Louis is a regular partner of the salsa band Sonido Costeño.
To reconcile Classical and Contemporary music with his generation’s audience, he founded and conducted the orchestra NewOrch, and is now co-directing Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra.
A Vandoren artist and MA from the New School (Professors Neidich and Krakauer), he taught in France for ten years (including Paris Conservatoire) and recently joined the faculty of the Diller-Quaile School of Music.
Henry Griffin, heralded by the Chautauqua Daily as “luminous” and “supremely tender,” is a 21-year-old baritone currently in pursuit of a BM in classical voice at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of voice guru Marlena Malas. Henry has sung all of his life including solo boy soprano debuts with the Northwestern University opera theater at age 9, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11, the Lyric Opera of Chicago at age 12, and solo voice and piano recital debuts at age 15. More recently, Henry has been found singing the roles of Toby in “110 in the Shade,” Snug in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and Dr. Bartolo in “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Chautauqua Voice Program. Henry also covered the role of the Commentator in Derrick Wang’s opera “Scalia/Ginsburg” at the Chautauqua Opera Company and performed opera scenes with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra this past summer in a joint pops concert with the Opera Company. Henry is also a pianist, arranger, and composer. He has played piano since the age of 6 studying with Hannah Voigt and Jiayin Li, recently performing multiple recitals of four-hands repertoire with his girlfriend, pianist and composer Tian Qin, including a performance last June which aired live on WFMT Chicago.
Next summer, Henry will be singing the role of the Forester in “The Cunning Little Vixen” at the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory, and he will be making his Carnegie Hall debut in November 2022 in Paul Moravec’s world premiere “A Nation of Others” with the Oratorio Society of New York conducted by Kent Tritle.