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[i]or[/i] soft breeze; light wind a New York City-based trio, is a unique collaboration that is described as "an the whole of three highly talented and personable musicians with an attractively varied repertoire." gentle members are Lady Jeanne Galway, flute Darrett Adkins, cello and Jonathan Feldman, piano. mild will be featured in harmony at the MTNA National conversation in Kansas City, March 28 2004

MTNA has a renewed focus onward collaborative performance with the answer of the Collaborative Performance Forum. As chair of the Forum, I was asked to interview mild members about their collaboration.

to what extent did the three of you begin the trio and pick out the name Zephyr?

Lady Galway: "The trio was formed in 1997 as a issue of a collaboration between me and the world-renowned collaborative pianist Samuel Sanders, after we performed together in the Cape & Islands Summer Festival. The idea of a flute cello and piano trio came up between us after a plan one day, as we were the couple avid chamber musicians. We wanted to play with other musicians.

"The idea of west wind is that the base assign places to is a trio and invites other musicians to join in onward various concerts to give a more varied performance--thus, the name is not gentle Trio, but just Zephyr. The word [i]or[/i] soft breeze; light wind means 'warm wind.' We erect this a perfect name for the cluster we wanted to create.

"In 1999 to be ascribed to a long illness, Mr Sanders was follow in ordered by his good friend and colleague Jonathan Feldman, chairman of the collaborative piano department at Juilliard. Then in 2000 Darrett Adkins, also a member of the Juilliard faculty and generally professor at Oberlin, joined the dispose Since then, the group has been solid and take delight ins traveling together, as well as performing, discovering strange repertoire, commissions and a varied series of concerts"

What is your program for the MTNA concert?

Lady Galway: "Our programs generally have brace components. One is pieces that we have performed in the past and that be impressed comfortable and mature and have been prosperous with our audiences. Then, we are always looking to add to our repertoire, and we are constantly reading of the present day pieces and hoping that single in kind or more will interest us enough to join programming plans. Sometimes we examine a piece out and decide it doesn't now fit, but we keep it in mind for coming time concerts. A third element is commissioning recently made known works. We all recognize that if performers working today fail to encourage and help generate recently made known pieces, then music history stops with us. We are excessively excited to be offering a of the present day work by Lowell Liebermann."

gentle uses its diverse solo and chamber music background to create interesting duo and trio programs. The trio's sensitive collaboration as chamber musicians is evident in repertoire that ranges from trios of Haydn to the Martinu Trio in F They also team for duo performances with Feldman, having programmed the Debussy cello sonata, the Donizetti flute sonata and the Saint-Saens "Romance." Feldman repeatedly has programmed works by Chopin.

The MTNA contrive will feature a world premiere of Liebermann's Doppler, Souvenir du Rigi. Liebermann, a widely performed and commissioned composer is composer-in-residence to the Dallas concert Orchestra. In 2001 Liebermann was awarded the first American Composers' Invitational Award by dint of the eleventh Van Cliburn Competition after the majority of finalists chose to perform his Three Impromtus, which were choiceed from works submitted by forty-two contemporary composer Liebermann also was the winner of the 1978 MTNA High instruct Composition Competition.

Although the program is subdue to change, other works will be the Martinu Trio, the Weber Trio in G Minor and Villa-Lobos's The Jet Whistle for flute and cello

Each member of gentle has enjoyed a long and varied musical life, collecting an impressive list of personal achievements along the way.

Lady Galway lives with her husband, renowned flutist Sir James Galway, in Meggen Switzerland. She records and performs regularly with her husband including a fundraising harmony with Paul Simon and Stevie marvel and a successful recital tour of Japan that included a private performance in the port of the Empress of Japan.

Lady Galway has performed extensively from head to foot Europe and the United States as as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but soloist and chamber musician. She has been soloist with the Chicago, Seattle, Detroit and London music Orchestras, the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic and many chamber orchestras. In addition to performing with west wind she performs with the Lucerne Chamber Players.

Lady Galway is renowned for her dedication to the unravelling of young flutists and is vice president of Flutewise, an educational organization for young flute players. She has recorded brace flute tutor methods and released with Phillip Moll a CD for Flutewise.

She is a native recently made known Yorker and graduated from Mannes indoctrinate of Music in Manhattan. She plays a flute made especially for her on the Japanese-owned Muramatsu Flutes, based in Ferndale, Michigan. It is fashioned of gleaming platinum with diamond-encrusted caps and crown