“the audience
leapt to their feet and went away in a daze of pleasure!”
St. Bernard Voice,
New Orleans
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The Hawthorne Trio
DAVID HAYS, violinist David Hays has led an active chamber music
career in both traditional and early music venues. He has performed with the
Sheridan Chamber Players in Chicago and was a finalist at the 1998 Banff International
String Quartet Competition with the Fry Street Quartet. On baroque violin,
David Hays tours and records with the Minneapolis-based early music ensemble, “Minstrelsy!” and
has appeared with the Lyra Concert, the Newberry Consort and the Chicago Baroque
Ensemble. An active orchestral player, Mr. Hays has performed at the Tanglewood
Festival and with the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Chicago Symphony
and is the Concertmaster of the Springfield Symphony. David Hays earned a Doctor
of Music at Northwestern University.
AMY MUCHNICK, violist Amy Muchnick has
appeared throughout the United States as both violist and
conductor. She is the recipient of the prestigious Guarneri
String Quartet Fellowship at the University of Maryland
where Ms. Muchnick received her Doctor of Musical Arts.
Among Ms. Muchnick’s critical
recognitions in the area of chamber music have been top honors
at the Emerson String Quartet Competition, Beethoven Young
Artist Competition of Memphis, and the Columbia International
Chamber Music Competition. Ms. Muchnick has served as conductor
of the Ozark Festival Orchestra and regularly conducts the
Chamber orchestra of Southwest Missouri State University.
Amy Muchnick is the Principal Violist of the Springfield
Symphony.
MICHAEL MURRAY, cellist Michael Murray’s varied concert
activity has taken him throughout the United States and Europe
with solo and chamber music recitals. His appearances with
the Kansas City Summerfest Series have received enthusiastic
critical praise and Murray has shared acclaim for seventeen
seasons of recitals with the Hawthorne Trio. Mr. Murray has
performed as member of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Kansas
City Camerata, Minnesota Composer’s Forum, Arizona
Opera and is Principal Cellist of the Springfield Symphony.
He has participated in several Italian festivals giving local
premieres of American music and was invited to perform a
solo recital at the British Academy in Rome. In 2003 Murray
was Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Mr.
Murray holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University
of Arizona.
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Program Date
03/24/05 7:30 pm
Admission
Free
Program Overview
The Hawthorne Trio is a faculty artist ensemble at Southwest
Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. Founded in
1985, the trio has performed across the United States and has
recorded for Albany Records. The Hawthorne Trio opened the 2000-2001
Season of Concerts at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw and gave recitals
in the Czech Republic. Most recently, the ensemble has appeared
at the Imperial College in London and the University of Arkansas-Little
Rock. Of their performances, one critic was led to write: “the
Hawthorne Trio is focused and expressive in a fashion that doesn’t
get in the way of the composer. And therein lies the genius of
these unpretentious, unsung, remarkable artists.”
The Hawthorne Trio
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