Callista Trio
Kayaleh * Dolin * Porter
With the formation of the trio, they have access to works of many composers. For this concert, the programme includes three major compositions.
Programme
Trio Élégiaque in G minor, Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1892
Trio in G minor, op. 110, Robert Schumann, 1851
Trio in E minor, op. 90, “Dumky”, Antonin Dvořák, 1891
Concert Location: St. James Church Hall
642 Main Road Hudson, QC
April 6, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
At the door: 30$
This YouTube video was recorded during a rehearsal before the Toronto concerts in December 2024.
Laurence Kayaleh - violin
Laurence Kayaleh has performed as guest soloist with many distinguished orchestras: Zurich Tonhalle, Russian National Orchestra, National Symphony (Washington), Lamoureux (Paris), l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the major orchestras of Cleveland, St. Louis, Caracas (Simon Bolivar), Basel, Mexico City, under such conductors as Slatkin, Dutoit, Kogan, Pletnev, Nowak, Wakazugi, Carewe, Turnovsky and Venzago. Le Figaro’s world-renowned critic, Pierre Petit, used the phrase “L’Archet Royal” to describe her golden tone.
She performed at the Bolchoï and Tchaïkovsky Halls (Moscow), Pleyel and Gaveau Halls (Paris), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Victoria Hall (Geneva), Verdi Hall (Milano), Teatro Teresa Carreño (Caracas), Place des Arts (Montréal), The John F. Kennedy Center (Washington), Powell Hall (St. Louis), Pollack Hall (Montréal), and at The Tsu Center for The Performing Arts (Japan). Guest of major festivals – Lucerne, Blossom, Cervantino, Divonne, Ottawa, Parry Sound, Abbey Bach Festival – she shared concerts with Viktor Pikayzen, Ida Haendel and Igor Oïstrakh. Laurence has recorded for NAXOS the complete works for violin and piano by N. Medtner (8.570298-99), A. Honegger (8.572192), and G. Catoire (July 2016 release – 8.573345). She plays a magnificent 1742 Pietro Guarneri of Venice which belonged to the eminent violinist and pedagogue, Carl Flesch.
Elizabeth Dolin - cello
Since her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1985, Elizabeth Dolin is recognized as one of Canada’s finest cellists, in demand as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout Canada and the United States, and as soloist with major Canadian orchestras under such conductors as Mario Bernardi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Simon Streatfield. Referring to her Mendelssohn recording with Bernadene Blaha on the Analekta label, The Strad writes that she “performs these works with technical finesse and just the right level of delicacy …that Mendelssohn…demands.
A founding member of several highly regarded ensembles (Les Cordes Romantiques, Duo Fouquet-Dolin, Reiner Trio), she has collaborated with such artists as Martin Beaver, Bernadene Blaha, Steven Isserlis and Pinchas Zuckerman. Her regular appearances at Festival of the Sound, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the Orford Festival, Chamber Music Kincardine and the Fredericton Chamber Music Festival, among others, have been enthusiastically received. Highlights of note include a tour of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with l’Orchestre Métropolitain and a performance of Schumann’s Concerto for Cello with the Victoria Symphony.
In addition to being an active member of Montréal’s chamber music scene, Ms. Dolin is Assistant Professor of Cello at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, as well as Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and is on faculty at Domaine Forget.
Elizabeth Dolin plays with a François Lotte bow, graciously provided to her by the company CANIMEX INC. from Drummondville (Quebec), Canada.
Lucas Porter - piano
Lucas Porter – a national and international award winning pianist from Nova Scotia, Canada – is quickly gaining recognition across the country and internationally.
Lucas will be performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Las Vegas Young Artist Orchestra in the fall of 2025. Lucas also has numerous recitals upcoming in Nova Scotia, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. In May of 2023, Lucas completed a doctorate at the University of Montreal under the tutelage of Jimmy Brière.
In 2019, he completed an artist diploma at the Oberlin Conservatory with Stanislav Ioudenitch and William Nabore. In the winter of 2014, Lucas completed a solo tour of 21 concerts under the management of Jeunesses Musicales of Eastern Canada.
He did another tour of the Maritime Provinces with Debut Atlantic in 2015. In 2023, he performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax.
Lucas has been a semifinalist at a number of international piano competitions in the USA, Italy, Canada, and Japan. He has won a number of first prizes and grand prizes at the national Canadian Music Competition. He is also the winner of the Notion Realize Music Challenge, which was an international composing competition.