Live Oak Concerts
Ravel: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A Minor
Sequoia Trio

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Sequoia Trio with Tong Cheng, piano, Dara Safier, violin and Elizabeth Vandervennet, cello

Passacaglia. by Handel-Halvorsen
Duo for violin and cello after G.F. Handel's Suite no. 7 in g minor for harpsichord

Trio in G major, K 496. by W.A. Mozart
for piano forte, violin and cello
Allegro
Andante
Allegretto

Trio in A Minor for Violin, Piano and Cello by Maurice Ravel
1. Modéré
2. Pantoum
3. Passacaille
4. Final

Sequoia Trio:
Tong Cheng, piano
Dara Saffer, violin
Elizabeth Vandervennet, cello

This program was part of the Live Oak Concert series, recorded at the Berkeley Art Center on April 19, 1998.
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Program Notes: The San Francisco based SEQUOIA TRIO was formed in 1996. Since its establishment, it has worked with the Alexander String Quartet, Kathy Van Hoosen, Mark McCray and Camilla Wicks. The trio performs actively in the Bay Area.

Tong Cheng studied piano at the Middle School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China, at the University of Texas in Austin and Texas Christian University, where she received a Master's Degree. In l993, she was awarded theVan Cliburn-Liszt Scholarship to study chamber music and piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Ms. Cheng has given solo recitals at the San Antonio international Performing Arts Festival, for the University Television Broadcasting Program in Austin, and in the Bosendorfer Hall in Vienna. She has taught piano atTexas Christian University and teaches privately in the Bay Area, where she also works as a freelance accompanist

Dara Saffer received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She went on to study violin with Charles Castleman from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, Yuri Mazurkevich at Boston University, and most recently,CamillaWicks from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Ms. Saffer is currently a member of several Bay Area orchestras and the Fog City Chamber Company. She taught violin at the Music School in Rhode lsland and is currently on the faculty of the Community Music Center.

Elizabeth Vandervennet received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and a Master's Degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She was a member of the Sartory String Quartet during its residency at Kent State University in 1995 and, while there, worked with the Cleveland String Quartet, Cavani and Miami Quartet. Recently, she joined the Lake String Quartet, a Michigan-based troop, for a summer residency in Yellowstone National Park. Ms.Vandervennet is currently a member of several Bay Area orchestras. She teaches privately in San Francisco.

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Live Oak Concerts was an ongoing, year-round series of classical music concerts featuring many of the best and emerging musicians from the greater Bay Area, and from around the country and abroad. The concert series presents an average of thirty concerts per year. The superb acoustics of the gallery of the Berkeley Art Center has proven to be a jewel for the presentation of live classical music. Cable Television Series...

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