WHEN: Sunday, September 25, 2011
TIME: 12:30PM
WHERE: Elkridge Club,
6100 North Charles Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21212
COST: $ 45.00 per person
Please RSVP by Monday September 19, 2011
Contact:Rita Diaz at 410-560-2101
You can print the invitation and RSVP card at the links below
Invitation
RSVP card

Andrea Casarrubios, Cello

Rolando Rolim, Piano

Lydia Chernicoff, Violin

WHEN: May 14, 2011
TIME: 3:00PM
WHERE: An Die Musik Live
409 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
410.385.2638

Advance tickets $20- on concert date $25-
Students  $5

Please send your checks made out to
Susana de Moya Foundation
P.O. Box 10040
Towson, MD 21245.

For more information contact
Rita Diaz at 410-560-2101
or send us an Email: admin@sdmfoundation.org

Download a printable flyer to share with friends! Click on the link: TrioAppasionataSDMFConcertMay2011

The Trio Appassionata will be performing a contemporary piece by Astor Piazzola. Ronaldo Rolim will play a set of pieces for piano solo by Albeniz. Ronaldo and Andrea will play cello-piano duo pieces.

Trio Appassionata was formed in December 2007 at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. Since the group’s founding, its members have been awarded numerous scholarships and prizes at competitions including I Solo Competition Illa de Menorca, Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, Baltimore Music Club, and the South Mountain Association Scholarship. The trio has been coached by some of today’s most eminent chamber musicians including Seth Knopp, Michael Kannen, Alison Wells, Violaine Melançon and Maria Lambros, as well as members of the Miró and Brentano Quartets. The trio has performed in many concerts at Peabody including on the Thursday Noon Recital Series. In April 2008, Trio Appassionata was chosen to play in Peabody’s 150^th Anniversary Gala and, most recently (2010), the trio was selected to be among the first of the Peabody Honors Ensembles.

Lydia Chernicoff is an active chamber musician and has recently performed in the United States and China. She is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in violin performance and pedagogy at the Peabody Conservatory, where she studies with Violaine Melançon. Ms. Chernicoff has won awards from the Berkshire Lyric Theatre Young Musicians Scholarship Competition and the South Mountain Concert Association. In the Spring of 2010, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in violin performance from the Peabody Conservatory and was awarded the Grace Clagett Ranney Prize in chamber music.

Born in Spain, Andrea Casarrubios is in the final year of her Bachelor’s Degree at the Peabody Conservatory where she studies with Amit Peled. Since 2007 she has been a recipient of the Anonymous Endowed Scholarship in Cello and the Beatrice Feldman Kahn and Raymond S. Kahn Endowed Cello Scholarship. Ms. Casarrubios has taken top prizes in eight competitions and has performed on stages across Europe and the United States.

Brazilian-born pianist Ronaldo Rolim earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory in the Spring of 2010. He currently is a Master of Music candidate in the same institution, studying with Benjamin Pasternack. He has performed actively in Brazil and the United States in solo and chamber recitals, masterclasses, and as a soloist with several orchestras. Mr. Rolim is a prizewinner of more than twenty competitions and a recipient of the Douglas and Hilda Goodwin Scholarship for Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.

Pianist Andrea Casarrubios, has She has won the cello scholarship of Juventudes Musicales of Spain 2009 and 2010, and since 2007 she has been a recipient of the Annual Anonymous Scholarship and the Beatrice Feldman Kahn and Raymond S. Kahn Endowed Cello Scholarship in order to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in cello performance with Professor Amit Peled at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.

Award-winning Brazilian pianist Ronaldo Rolim has been praised for his interpretive power, brilliant virtuosity and rich sonorous palette. Born in 1986, he began his musical studies with his mother at the age of four, and was later admitted as a full scholarship student at the Magda Tagliaferro School in São Paulo, where he was guided by professors Zilda Candida dos Santos and Armando Fava Filho.

The Susana de Moya Foundation will also co-sponsor of the following concerts to be held at AnDieMusikLive in 2011

April 16, 2011 – Alan Blackman Trio -Jazz – Alan Blackman, Piano. Mike Pope, Bass. Rogerio Boccato, Drums.

October 15 and 16, 2011. – Chuchito Valdez , piano solo.

December 2011 – check back for more information on birthday concert by Eddie Palmieri

Since his admission at Peabody, he has participated in many performances including master classes with Richard Goode, Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler and Vladimir Feltsman. In December 2008, Ronaldo won the first prize at the Harrison Winter Piano Concerto Competition in Baltimore by unanimous decision of the jury, which gave him the opportunity of performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in 2009 under Hajime Teri Murai. In April 2009, he took part in the Peabody Camerata performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, conducted by Gene Young.

Ronaldo is active as a solo and chamber musician in his native Brazil and abroad, having performed in such venues as Steinway Hall (London), Théâtre de Vevey (Vevey, Switzerland), Mesa Arts Center (Mesa, Arizona), Friedberg Hall (Baltimore, Maryland) and in the most important Brazilian concert halls. As a soloist, he has performed in Brazil with several orchestras, including the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Radio Orchestra, São Paulo University Orchestra, Piracicaba Symphony Orchestra, Sorocaba Symphony Orchestra and Campinas Symphony Orchestra, having worked with conductors Aylton Escobar, Yeruham Scharovsky, Ernst Mahle, Jonicler Real, Lutero Rodrigues and Ronaldo Bologna. In 2010, he performed twice at the Rio de Janeiro edition of the Folle Journée Festival (which is held every year in Nantes, France, and also in cities like Tokyo, Warsaw and Bilbao), which paid tribute to the anniversary of 200 years of Chopin’s birth. Ronaldo took part in important projects such as the TV program Brasil Piano Solo, presented by TV Cultura in 2000 and 2001, and the recording of the CD Furnas Geração Musical in 2005, both projects dedicated exclusively to the diffusion of Brazilian music. In 2004 he made a musical participation in the documentary Magda Tagliaferro: The World Inside a Piano, by Norma Bengell.

Ronaldo is a prizewinner of more than 20 competitions held around the globe. He has received several special prizes for his performances of works by Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin and Szymanowski. Among his latest achievements, the 3rd prize at the James Mottram International Piano Competition (2010) in Manchester, UK (what resulted in a performance of Grieg Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes), and, in 2011, the 1st prize at the Bösendorfer International Piano Competition in Tempe, Arizona. Ronaldo concludes his Master of Music degree in Piano Performance in 2011 at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he is a recipient of the Douglas and Hilda Goodwin Scholarship for Chamber Music.

A native of Spain, she began her piano studies at the age of two with composer and pianist Maria Escribano, with whom she continued for twelve years. She contiued her studies with Bulgarian pianist Ludmil Angelov in Toledo (Spain) and Seth Knopp in Baltimore (US). At the age of five Andrea started to take cello lessons and from 2000 until 2007 she was a student of Maria de Macedo in Madrid (Spain), continuing her studies with cellist Lluis Claret in Barcelona (Spain), and currently with Amit Peled in Baltimore (US) at the Peabody Conservatory. Andrea has performed concerts in many countries and participated in festivals such as the Casals Festival in France, the Heifetz Music Festival in the US, the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, and has performed in masterclasess for acclaimed piano and cello teachers like Ralph kirshbaum, Frans Helmerson, Leon Fleisher, Steven Doane, Paul Katz, David Dolan, Laurence Lesser, Martti Rousi, Christophe Coin, Daniel Grosgurin.

As a winner of the “SOR Solo Competition” she has been the guest artist invited to perform Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata (arrangement for cello and orchestra) in Montana in May 2009 and during the summer of 2011 she will be performing the Haydn C major Cello Concerto as the first prize winner of the Solo Cello Competition FIDAH 2010. Being an active new music performer as well, Andrea has premiered contemporary pieces such “Lambda” for cello solo and dancer by composer Ariyo Shary, and “As the Universe Unfolds” (First Prize “Prix D’Eté 2010″) by composer Griffin Cohen. As a member of theTrio Appassionata (Honors ensemble piano Trio at the Peabody Conservatory) Andrea will be performing at the Carnegie Hall in New York, in March 2011.