Music of BEETHOVEN

The Reverón Piano Trio brilliantly introduces audiences to music from Latin America alongside contemporary and standard repertoire. These seasoned artists promote Latin American music through their work as scholars and entrepreneurs, and they have devoted their careers to the discovery, cataloguing, performance, and recording of this rich repertoire. The Trio commissions new works, while also creating the Sphinx Catalog of Latin American Piano Trios. Pianist Ana María Otamendi, violinist Simón Gollo, and cellist Horacio Contreras are all Venezuelan artists who now perform and teach in the United States.

Each year since 1983 the Beethoven Festival of Park City has been bringing outstanding classical solo artists from around the globe to perform together in Park City. The Festival continues as one of the nation’s longest-running classical music festivals. The hallmark of the Festival is its vibrant, intimate performances filled with variety and color, designed to appeal to newcomers and chamber music fans alike.

The Beethoven Festival Artists in Residence Russell Harlow, clarinetist, and Leslie Blackburn Harlow, violist, have invited a sterling roster of some of this generation’s finest and most expressive artists. The musicians are spending weeks in residence in Park City preparing each program. Hear violinists Rebekah Johnson (NYC) and Simon Gollo (Venezuela), violist Leslie Harlow, cellists Tom Landschoot (Belgium) and Horacio Contreras (Venezuela) for this collection of their favorite chamber music works.

Born and raised on a farm in eastern Washington, Stephen Beus began lessons at age 5 and made his orchestral debut four years later. He went on to win numerous national and international competitions throughout his youth, capturing the attention of both audiences and critics.

Commenting on Mr. Beus’ competition success, Fanfare Magazine writes: “In some ways, Beus doesn’t fit the mold of the typical competition winner. His playing is strikingly original and, despite his youth, he has an interpretive voice all his own… Above all, his playing is so natural as to seem effortless and the sound he produces has extraordinary richness and depth, not quite like anyone else’s.”

As a result of winning the Juilliard School Concerto Competition, Mr. Beus made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra and James DePreist, playing Prokofiev Concerto No. 3. He has also performed as guest soloist with the Gulbenkian Symphony (Lisbon), Oxford Philomusica, the Tivoli Symphony (Copenhagen), the Tbilisi National Opera Orchestra, the Northwest Sinfonietta (Seattle), the Royal Philharmonic of Morocco (Casablanca), the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra (Finland) as well as with the Hamburg, Indianapolis, Nashville, Santa Fe, Utah, Fort Worth, Tucson, Yakima, Bellevue, Salt Lake, Eastern Sierra, Corvallis, Jacksonville, Texarkana, and Walla Walla Symphonies.