Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Tema con variazioni
About the artists:
Robert DiLutis is the Professor of Clarinet at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the principal clarinetist of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. Mr. DiLutis previously served on the faculty at the Louisiana State University School of Music and has held positions with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman School of Music. Mr. DiLutis has served on the faculties of St. Mary's University in Texas, Nazareth College in New York and the Catholic University of America. His recent recitals and master classes have included the University of Georgia, University of California at Northridge, University of South Carolina, Graz Conservatory and the International Clarinet Conference in Assisi, Italy and Madrid, Spain. Born in Baltimore, MD, to a family of musicians, Mr. DiLutis studied first at the Peabody Conservatory with William Blayney and later at the Juilliard School with David Weber, principal clarinetist of the NYC Ballet. In 1989 he made his Carnegie Hall Recital debut as the winner of the Artist International Chamber Music Competition. As a soloist, Mr. DiLutis has performed with ensembles such as the San Antonio Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, LSU Wind Ensemble, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. He has performed and toured with the New York Philharmonic and is currently co-director of the Clarinet Academy of America and NORCIMCA, intensive summer programs for advanced musicians in high school and college. In addition to his performance career, Mr. DiLutis is the creator of the Reed Machine, a reed-making device used by top professionals around the world. Mr. DiLutis was awarded a 2014 & 2018 Individual Performing Artist Grant from the Maryland State Council for the Arts. He is an artist for Buffet Crampon, Rovner, Selmer and Lohff & Pfeiffer.
A versatile performer bringing “sonorous life” to the stage [Cleveland Plain Dealer], cellist Carrie Bean Stute is co-founder and co-artistic director of the Capitol Hill-based chamber music series Chiarina Chamber Players. A recipient of a 2020 Classical Commissioning grant from Chamber Music America, grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the inaugural John Franzén Award for the Arts from the Capitol Hill Community Foundation, Chiarina has won critical acclaim for its artistry and innovative programming. Carrie’s performances have been broadcast on Classical WETA’s Front Row Washington. In DC, Carrie has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and 21st Century Consort. She currently serves as assistant principal cellist of “The President’s Own” Marine Chamber Orchestra, where she performs in such diverse settings as the White House, area public schools, the Phillips Collection, and for events hosted by the United Nations and State Department. Carrie also serves as a professorial lecturer of cello and chamber music at George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. In 2021 Carrie performed as soloist in the North American premiere of Pēteris Vasks’s Cello Concerto No. 2. A performer who seeks out the voices of today, she collaborates with a growing set of composers, including Kennedy Center composer-in-residence Carlos Simon, who composed a work for Chiarina in 2020. She took part in the Carnegie Hall workshop “New Voices, New Music” as a member of the NY-based ensemble Hotel Elefant. She has performed chamber music at such venues as Zankel Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, and an in-house educational residency at the 92nd Street Y. Her work with small ensembles and orchestras can be heard on the Albany, Avie, BSO Classics recording labels. Carrie was a fellow at the New World Symphony, Tanglewood Music Center, Aldeburgh Festival, and the Sarasota and Norfolk chamber music festivals. Carrie served as an adjunct instructor at CUNY Queens College, where she taught cello and chamber music, and also served as a faculty member at the DC Youth Orchestra Program, the Opus 118 School in Harlem, and at national youth orchestra festivals in Colombia and Honduras. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and The Graduate Center at City University of New York, where she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Russian-born pianist Rita Sloan began piano studies shortly after her Polish family immigrated to the United States. The winner of numerous local scholarships and prizes, she attended the Juilliard School as a student of Martin Canin and Rosina Lhevinne. At Juilliard, she won the Concerto Competition and was awarded the Pro-Mozart Prize to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has also studied with Leon Fleisher, Aube Tzerko and Vladimir Ashkenazy. As a soloist, Rita Sloan has performed in recital and with orchestra throughout the United States and Europe. As a chamber musician and collaborative artist, she performs internationally with many of today’s outstanding instrumentalists. Appearances performing chamber music include the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series, New York’s Bargemusic and the Aspen Music Festival, where Ms. Sloan is a member of the piano faculty. Ms. Sloan is the founder and coordinator of the Collaborative Artist and Piano Chamber Music Programs at the Aspen Festival. She is also a founding member of the Aspen Ensemble, a unique chamber music group comprising piano, flute, violin, viola and cello. Ms. Sloan has been a frequent visitor to Japan where she has performed and given master classes throughout the country. As member of the piano faculty of the University of Maryland School of Music, Rita Sloan also directs the Collaborative Artist Program.
This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
