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Trio Voronezh

Mill Valley Chamber Music Society welcomes back TRIO VORONEZH, whom we had for a delightful concert ten years ago. Classically trained at the Conservatory in Voronezh, Russia, the members Valerie Petrukhin, Vladimir Volokhin (National Champion, All-Russian Domra Competition) and Sergei Teleshev, formed the trio in 1993 in their native working-class city of Voronezh. They play traditional Russian folk instruments: a double-bass balalaika (the three-stringed Russian national instrument, with a triangular body made of fir), a domra (a three-stringed short-necked ancestor of the mandolin), and a bajan (a chromatic-button accordion, with various registers). The trio's diverse repertoire ranges from the works of Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky to Russian folk songs, gypsy dance music, and popular songs by Gershwin. This ever-expanding concert material is arranged by the trio's members and performed with extraordinary virtuosity entirely from memory. More recently they have added works by Astor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, and Shostakovich and Strauss. Discovered playing Bach in a Frankfurt, Germany subway station, the trio's debut was at the 1996 Oregon Bach Festival, and first U.S. tour began by bringing down the house on American Public Media's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=triovoronezh
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