Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Piano and Cello in e minor, Op. 38
Sonata for Piano and Clarinet in f minor, Op. 120
Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in a minor, Op. 114

Naomi Niskala – Piano
Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer – Clarinet
Frank Dodge – Cello

Japanese-American pianist Naomi Niskala, raised in upstate New York and Tokyo, Japan, began her piano studies at age three. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in North America, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East. In 2007, to high acclaim, she released the complete solo piano works of Robert Helps on two discs with Albany Records. She received her bachelor’s degree with Patricia Zander at the New England Conservatory, and then her master and doctoral degrees with Gilbert Kalish at Stony Brook University, and an Artist Diploma with Claude Frank at the Yale School of Music. WEBSITE: www.susqu.edu/academics/faculty/naomi-niskala

Dutch clarinetist Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer studied with Walter Boeykens at the Rotterdam Conservatory and with clarinetist Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School for Music under the auspices of the Fulbright International Scholarship Program. He has been a member of the ensemble of Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 2000. His playing has been highly praised by Spectrum’s Berlin and New York audiences, the Berlin press and in the numerous reviews of the many CDs he has recorded with the Spectrum ensemble for the Naxos lable. They include the music of Ernst Toch, Paul Hindemith, Erno von Dohnanyi, Ursula Mamlok, Robert Helps and John Harbison. WEBSITE: www.larzetto.com

Frank Sumner Dodge began studying the cello at 16. His instructors were Jacobus Langendoen, Alfred Zighera, Aldo Parisot, Pierre Fournier, Eberhard Finke and Maurice Gendron. He founded the Strawbery Banke Chamber Music Festival, Inc. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and was artistic director and cellist from 1969-1980 and again in 1997. He moved to Berlin, Germany in 1982 and founded Spectrum Concerts Berlin in 1988 and Spectrum Concerts Berlin – USA, Inc. in 2005. He performed many years with the Berlin Phiharmonic Orchestra, for a season with the National Orchestra of Spain in Madrid and with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra: www.spectrumconcerts.com

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