Recitals Australia Welcomes Dean and Moore Dean Trio Tonight

Recitals Australia is proud to unveil the Dean and Moore Dean Trio in the third concert of this year's Virtuosi Series. In this highly charged concert, internationally renowned composer performers and brothers, Brett Dean (viola) and Paul Dean (clarinet), combine their talents with "New York's queen of avant-garde piano", Lisa Moore, in a virtuosic program of classic and modern works.

Described by The Chicago Tribune as "a voice of fertile imagination, originality and expressive subtlety", Australia's Brett Dean is one of the most internationally performed composers of his generation - with his most recent orchestral piece performed by the Australian World Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Canberra born and New York based pianist, Lisa Moore, brings a swathe of accolades and deep immersion with both contemporary and repertoire music to the trio. Described by The New York Times as "beautiful, impassioned ....brilliant and searching", Lisa Moore has recorded over 8 solo and 30 collaborative discs of works by some of the greatest American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries including Steve Reich, Terry Riley, John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick and Philip Glass.

The trio is complete with outstanding Australian clarinettist, composer and head of the Australian National Academy of Music, Paul Dean.

"We've come together to play due to our mutual admiration of each other's gifts and music making" says Lisa Moore, adding that the trio's new music experience has a profound impact on the way they approach more traditional music. "We see all music as being fresh and new, we can imagine the (dead) composer's intentions while being connected to a living tradition".

The program will open with the stately flow of Mozart's Kegelstatt trio, Brett Dean will then deliver a striking personal tribute to a revered Berlin Philharmonic colleague in his Sketches for Siegbert. The first half concludes with the mysteriously titled *** trio composed by Martin Bresnick. The passionate Fairytales of Robert Schumann are followed by Four Pieces for clarinet and piano by Alban Berg. The concert closes with the delicately devastating and enigmatic Hommage à Robert Schumann by Hungarian composer György Kurtág.

Don't miss this unique collaboration and world premiere of the Dean and Moore Dean Trio tonight, August 7 at 8pm in Elder Hall. Further information and tickets, $35 / $27 concession / $15 student, available at recitalsaustralia.org.au, at the door or phone (08) 8266 4936.

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