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Hilo Duo — Caroline Chin and Brian Snow — head to LCCC for Signature Series
A married couple and parents to a 2 ½-year-old and 4-month-old, violinist Caroline Chin and cellist Brian Snow also both teach at Bowling Green State University — and together make up the Hilo Duo.
On Tuesday, October 10 at 7:30 pm at Cirigliano Studio Theatre at the Stocker Center for the Arts, Hilo Duo will perform 20th- and 21st-century works by Richard Carrick, Elliott Carter, Jeffrey Mumford, and Maurice Ravel. The free concert, part of Lorain County Community College’s Signature Series, is open to the public.
-Jarrett Hoffman
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Sequenza 21
As much as Chin was the star of the evening (after all, she delivered a thrilling and dominant performance), her tour-de-force was made possible by the superlative quality of Higdon’s Violin Concerto. For me, the work hits every mark of a great concerto. The first movement is stunning and almost coy with the way in introduces the listener to Higdon’s design for the solo violin part, a destiny that unfolds in the most brilliant way in the successive movements. Empowered by the composer’s genius, Higdon’s Violin Concerto blends vibrant imagination, along the lines Jacob Druckman’s Viola Concerto, with stately grandeur, in the manner of Barber’s Violin Concerto, into a work that seems both modern and timeless. At a time when so many high-profile American composers are writing violin concerti, or works that pit violin soloists against a large ensemble, Higdon’s Violin Concerto represents, in my estimation, the undoubted gold standard...
-Garrett Schumann
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Hilo Duo — Caroline Chin and Brian Snow — head to LCCC for Signature Series
A married couple and parents to a 2 ½-year-old and 4-month-old, violinist Caroline Chin and cellist Brian Snow also both teach at Bowling Green State University — and together make up the Hilo Duo.
On Tuesday, October 10 at 7:30 pm at Cirigliano Studio Theatre at the Stocker Center for the Arts, Hilo Duo will perform 20th- and 21st-century works by Richard Carrick, Elliott Carter, Jeffrey Mumford, and Maurice Ravel. The free concert, part of Lorain County Community College’s Signature Series, is open to the public.
-Jarrett Hoffman
Complete interview
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Sequenza 21
As much as Chin was the star of the evening (after all, she delivered a thrilling and dominant performance), her tour-de-force was made possible by the superlative quality of Higdon’s Violin Concerto. For me, the work hits every mark of a great concerto. The first movement is stunning and almost coy with the way in introduces the listener to Higdon’s design for the solo violin part, a destiny that unfolds in the most brilliant way in the successive movements. Empowered by the composer’s genius, Higdon’s Violin Concerto blends vibrant imagination, along the lines Jacob Druckman’s Viola Concerto, with stately grandeur, in the manner of Barber’s Violin Concerto, into a work that seems both modern and timeless. At a time when so many high-profile American composers are writing violin concerti, or works that pit violin soloists against a large ensemble, Higdon’s Violin Concerto represents, in my estimation, the undoubted gold standard...
-Garrett Schumann
Complete review
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Time Out New York
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Sequenza 21
HILO Duo partners Brian Snow and Caroline Chin's recording of Elliott Carter's Music for Violin and Cello for Centaur Records has been included on Sequenza 21's list of 31 Memorable Recordings of 2013!
www.sequenza21.com/2013/12/31-memorable-recordings-from-2013
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HILO Duo partners Brian Snow and Caroline Chin's recording of Elliott Carter's Music for Violin and Cello for Centaur Records has been included on Sequenza 21's list of 31 Memorable Recordings of 2013!
www.sequenza21.com/2013/12/31-memorable-recordings-from-2013
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The New York Times
Ms. Chin and Mr. Snow, who are married, maintain the frenetic performing and teaching schedules characteristic of New York freelancers. For this concert, “Violin and Violoncello Duos” — conceived in conjunction with Michael Vincent Waller, an ambitious young composer who regularly mounts avant-garde concerts at the Ludlow Street rock club Pianos — the couple offered a brief, smart survey of modern string duets.
“Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg,” a terse, moody fanfare by Gyorgy Ligeti, neatly established the duo’s burnished sound and keenly attuned phrasing. “Dhipli Zyia,” an early, unpublished work by Xenakis, emphasized rustic, circling melodies and chugging, odd-metered dance rhythms.
Mr. Waller’s “Allegoria Della Primavera,” inspired by Botticelli’s painting of that name, opened with insistent Minimalist patterns dispatched in swift, frolicsome sequence. In its second part choralelike phrases swayed in pensive near-stasis before swelling suddenly to a gamboling final flourish.
After repeating the Ligeti work to open the concert’s second half Ms. Chin and Mr. Snow offered intensely concentrated accounts of two further pieces: Alfred Schnittke’s elegiac “Stille Musik” and Giacinto Scelsi’s quietly ecstatic “Duo.”
-Steve Smith
Complete review
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Ms. Chin and Mr. Snow, who are married, maintain the frenetic performing and teaching schedules characteristic of New York freelancers. For this concert, “Violin and Violoncello Duos” — conceived in conjunction with Michael Vincent Waller, an ambitious young composer who regularly mounts avant-garde concerts at the Ludlow Street rock club Pianos — the couple offered a brief, smart survey of modern string duets.
“Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg,” a terse, moody fanfare by Gyorgy Ligeti, neatly established the duo’s burnished sound and keenly attuned phrasing. “Dhipli Zyia,” an early, unpublished work by Xenakis, emphasized rustic, circling melodies and chugging, odd-metered dance rhythms.
Mr. Waller’s “Allegoria Della Primavera,” inspired by Botticelli’s painting of that name, opened with insistent Minimalist patterns dispatched in swift, frolicsome sequence. In its second part choralelike phrases swayed in pensive near-stasis before swelling suddenly to a gamboling final flourish.
After repeating the Ligeti work to open the concert’s second half Ms. Chin and Mr. Snow offered intensely concentrated accounts of two further pieces: Alfred Schnittke’s elegiac “Stille Musik” and Giacinto Scelsi’s quietly ecstatic “Duo.”
-Steve Smith
Complete review
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Oberon’s Grove
A second - and familiar - solo piece by Miro is MOMENTS set to a solo violin score by Salvatore Sciarrino. Ms. Chin showed her mastery of the difficult, buzzy technique demanded by the composer: this music was clearly written in another galaxy. Dancer Katie Gibson moved fluently thru the adagio phrases of the work, interspersed with flashes of more animated and spacious dancing. She often moves slowly when the music is fast. The piece ends on a quizzical note.
The trio LACE is set by Miro to music by Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIII for solo violin, expertly played by Ms. Chin. The music sometimes takes on a bustling quality and lingers in the high register. The trio of dancers - Sarah Atkins, Holly Curran and Katie Gibson - commence in a ritualistic, meditative state and then move on in a series of lyrically-styled solo passages woven into their agitato trios.
Complete review
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A second - and familiar - solo piece by Miro is MOMENTS set to a solo violin score by Salvatore Sciarrino. Ms. Chin showed her mastery of the difficult, buzzy technique demanded by the composer: this music was clearly written in another galaxy. Dancer Katie Gibson moved fluently thru the adagio phrases of the work, interspersed with flashes of more animated and spacious dancing. She often moves slowly when the music is fast. The piece ends on a quizzical note.
The trio LACE is set by Miro to music by Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIII for solo violin, expertly played by Ms. Chin. The music sometimes takes on a bustling quality and lingers in the high register. The trio of dancers - Sarah Atkins, Holly Curran and Katie Gibson - commence in a ritualistic, meditative state and then move on in a series of lyrically-styled solo passages woven into their agitato trios.
Complete review
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The Beacon News
“Wheaton Symphony, Violinist Chin Excel in Walton’s ‘Violin Concerto’ ”
The program was well constructed but very ambitious. It was evident that much of the rehearsal time was spent on preparing the Walton concerto which was written for perhaps the greatest violinist of all times, Jasha Heifetz. It is a dazzling work starting off with dark romantic melodies sounding much like Miklos Rosza’s film score melodies for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
The concerto soon evolves into passages of orchestral and violin fireworks. Caroline Chin began the polishing up of the concerto only a few weeks before this concert. It was an enthralling, insightful performance which sounded almost as good as Heifetz’s own on RCA. This is a violin concerto that sounds better with each listening and certainly one that needs to be performed more often before the public.
- Jim Edwards
“Wheaton Symphony, Violinist Chin Excel in Walton’s ‘Violin Concerto’ ”
The program was well constructed but very ambitious. It was evident that much of the rehearsal time was spent on preparing the Walton concerto which was written for perhaps the greatest violinist of all times, Jasha Heifetz. It is a dazzling work starting off with dark romantic melodies sounding much like Miklos Rosza’s film score melodies for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
The concerto soon evolves into passages of orchestral and violin fireworks. Caroline Chin began the polishing up of the concerto only a few weeks before this concert. It was an enthralling, insightful performance which sounded almost as good as Heifetz’s own on RCA. This is a violin concerto that sounds better with each listening and certainly one that needs to be performed more often before the public.
- Jim Edwards