The American Lions Gate Trio’s third and latest Centaur CD features three magnificent 20th century piano trios, one each from Frenchmen Maurice Ravel, the American iconoclast Charles Ives and the eminent English composer Rebecca Clarke. Internationally acclaimed in both the U.S. and Europe and lauded by the press for their CD’s, the Lions Gate Trio are currently in residence at the Hartt School (University of Hartford). “…wonderful soloists, and as a team, unbeatable.” – Berlin Morgenpost

The Arcos Trio - violinist Seunghee Lee, cellist Carl Donakowski and pianist Anthony Padilla - have been performing together worldwide since 1994. Ms. Lee is professor of Violin at Central Michigan and professionally active throughout the state. Mr. Donakowski, prizewinner at the 1989 Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin, is Asst. Prof. Of Cello at James Madison University. Mr. Padilla, graduate of the Eastman School, was appointed Prof. Of piano and chamber music at the Lawrence Conservatory in 1997. Two world premieres compliment their new Centaur release of Latin American Piano Trios.

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The American composer, violinist, musicologist and one-time transformative Dean of the School of Music at Syracuse University Howard Boatwright (1918-99) wrote around one hundred works in several genres, including chamber, orchestral, church music and, representing a significant portion of his compositional output, songs. + Both soprano Diana Livingston Friedley and pianist Kori Bond are Professors of Music at Idaho State University.

"•The Rite of Spring is performed here in a brilliant piano transcription by Vladimir Leyetchkiss. • The piano transcriptions of the Prokofiev are by Prokofiev himself. • Pianist and pedagogue Dr. Svetlana Belsky is an internationally in-demand recitalist and chamber pianist, noted for her stylistic versatility and remarkable rapport with audiences. • She is the Coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago."

This release features Baroque music performed on the rarely recorded corno da caccia, which was developed in France and belongs to the horn instrument group. Translating from Italian, it is the “hunting horn”.

Cellist Evelyn Elsing received her degree from the University of Michigan and has been a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland since 1974. Santiago Rodriguez is a Cuban-American pianist and a former Silver Medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

This is an album of great Spanish works for violin and piano. Jorge Avila is a specialist in this literature, and plays with great verve and gusto!

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Marc Satterwhite’s music has been performed in diverse venues all over the United States, as well as in Europe, England, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Among the groups that have performed and recorded his works are the Boston Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the Verdehr Trio, eighth blackbird, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Core Ensemble, Tales & Scales, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the London Composers Ensemble, Percussion Group Falsa, tubist Gene Pokorny, and clarinetist Richard Nunemaker. He has received residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and Indiana University and was for several years a professional orchestral bassist before switching his emphasis to composition. He taught in Michigan, Indiana, and Texas before coming to the University if Louisville. Besides his teaching responsibilities at, he is director of the Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition. This is the fifth compilation of his works.

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This is another in the series of recordings of the works of contemporary American composer David Loeb. Like many of his compositions, the works here include both the usual instruments, as well as, in this case, shinobue and Khaen.