Triode
A Piano Trio
This exciting new trio consists of three award winning Juilliard graduates - a promising future!
Albert Tiu, pianist
Joseph Esmilla, violinist
Sean Katsuyama, cellist
Now on YouTube!
Check out Triode's CD "Concierto para Trio" produced by Northbranch Records.
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Downloadable MP3s
track 2, Oblivion: Piazzolla, arr. Jose Bragato [4mb]
track 9, Evocacion, from Suite Iberia: Albeniz, arr. Albert Tiu [5.4mb]
track 16, Polo, from Suite Popular Espagnole: de Falla, arr. Albert Tiu [1.26mb]
track 18, La Muerte del Angel: Piazzolla, arr. Jose Bragato [3.4mb]
Albert Tiu, pianist - born in the Philippines, Albert Tiu received his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in 1996, where he was a scholarship student of Jerome Lowenthal. Previously, he studied at the Boston Conservatory, Hong Kong Academy of Perfroming Arts and the University of the Philippines. His past teachers include Michael Lewin and John Winther.
The recipient of the 1998 Juilliard William Petschek Recital Award, Albert Tiu was presented in a solo recital in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. In 1996, he won first prize in the UNISA Transnet International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was also awarded special special prizes for his performances of the Mozart Concerto K 585 and Rachmaninov Second Concerto. In May 1996, he also won the Juilliard Gina Bachauer Piano Competition, including the Chopin Prize, which resulted in a live radio broadcast on WQXR New York.
Mr. Tiu has performed in recitals and as soloist with orchestras throughout the world. Highlights of his performances include a concert tour of South Africa, performing the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Cape Town Philharmonic and the National Arts Philharmonic in Pretoria, the Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody with Kwazalu-Natal Philharmonic in Durban and the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with the National Symphony Orchestra in Johannesburg. He has also performed in numerous solo recitals throughout the country as well as being a sought after chamber musician and collaborative pianist.
He was recently appointed piano professor at the Singapore Conservatory of Music.
For more information regarding Albert's solo career, please visit his website.
Joseph Esmilla, violinist - started violin lessons at age five with his father, Sergio Z. Esmilla, Jr. At 14, he was granted a scholarship at The Juilliard School where he eventually received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees under the tutelage of Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki and Jens Ellerman. While doing post-graduate work in violin and chamber music with Felix Galimir at the Mannes College of Music, he won the concerto competition and performed the Bruch G minor concerto which was later broadcasted by WQXR in New York City. Subsequently, he pursued professional studies in violin and chamber music with Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley of the Guarneri Quartet. He participated in summer festivals and programs such as Aspen, Interlochen, Dartington and the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he was chosen to play the Tchaikovsky violin concerto for the culminating concert.
Mr. Esmilla has performed extensively as a recitalist and chamber musician in the Philippines, USA, Germany, Austria, Malaysia and South Korea and has been featured soloist in numerous occasions performing concertos from the standard violin repertoire with the Manila Symphony, Philippine Philharmonic and Manila Chamber orchestras. As an orchestral musician, he was concertmaster of the Manila Symphony Orchestra and the Detmold Kammer Orchester and was concertmaster and associate conductor of the Manila Chamber Orchestra. For the past eight seasons he has been a violinist with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the years of maintaining a concert career, he also served as a faculty member of the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, Towson University, Elizabethtown College and Shippensburg University as music director and conductor of the University/Community orchestra for the 2007-2008 season.
Highlights of his recent performing activities include concerts with the Eaken Piano Trio as guest artist, performing the violin solos in the Harrisburg Opera production of Lehar's "Paganini", concerto soloist with the Cleveland State University Orchestra, Shippensburg Festival Chamber Orchestra, and recitals in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC. He has recorded a CD of encore pieces entitled Sentimyento released by Bookmark Audio label and Concierto para Trio as violinist of Triode for Northbranch Records. Aside from having been the violinist of Triode, he is a sought after chamber musician and is active in the chamber music scene in the Central PA region. He performs on a violin by J. F. Pressenda of Turin, circa 1830.
Downloadable MP3s*
Track 1 - Estrellita: Ponce, arr. Jascha Heifetz [2.8mb]
Track 6 - Salut D'amour: Elgar [2.58mb]
Sean Katsuyama, cellist - a native of Dayton, Ohio, Sean Katsuyama began his cello studies at the age of fourteen. Within five years he enrolled at The Juilliard School, where he earned both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees as a student of Harvey Shapiro. Upon graduation he joined the Lumina String Quartet with whom he concertized throughout New York, Conneticut and in the Ukraine.
As an orchestral and chamber musician, he has performed at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, as well as at festivals in Israel and Canada. working with numerous renowned conductors including, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph Eschenbach and Gerard Schwarz. He has been actively involved in performing twentieth-Century repertoire and has had the privilege to work with composers such as Toru Takemitsu and Lukas Foss. Other credits include trio performances in Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall in New York, as well as in Philadelphia and Houston.
Mr. Katsuyama has performed with the Long Island Philharmonic, Prometheus, Manhattan Chamber Orchestras as principal cellist, and plays regularly on Broadway while maintaining a private teaching studio and actively pursuing solo recitals. He performed for three seasons with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
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