The Pintele Trio was formed in 2006 by friends and colleagues Lori Kaufman, Kathleen Brauer, and Kathleen’s husband, Mark Brandfonbrener. Pintele refers to “inner spark” in Yiddish, and it also means “the point, or crux”. As musicians, we are always trying to get to the point, or the inner meaning behind all the black dots in front of our eyes!
The Pintele Trio
Kathleen Brauer, violin
Mark Brandfonbrener, cello
Lori Kaufman, piano
Program for
October 14, 2007
Haydn:
Trio in D major,
Hob. XV, No. 24
Clara Schumann:
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17
Ravel:
Piano Trio (1914)
Kathleen Brauer, a native of Wisconsin, made her solo debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at the age of fifteen. She studied violin with Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan and Sidney Harth at Yale. She has performed at the Aspen, Norfolk, Bowdoin, Hampden-Sydney and Santa Fe music festivals. She lives in Chicago where she is a member of the orchestra of the Lyric Opera. Recently she has been heard with the Rembrandt Chamber Players, Music of the Baroque, and the Pintele Trio.
Mark Brandfonbrener, cellist, was raised in Chicago and was awarded a full scholarship to study with Samuel Mayes at the University of Michigan. He then went on to complete a Masters Degree with Harvey Shapiro at Juilliard. He has performed on the chamber music series of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and at Aspen, Santa Fe, Sarasota, Montepulciano, and Gstaad. He is a fulltime member o the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, and the orchestra of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Pianist Lori Kaufman has appeared in concerts and radio broadcasts throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, and Israel. Her activities as a soloist include recitals in important European venues such as Zurich’s Tonhalle, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, and the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. Concerto appearances include the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Royal National Scottish Orchestra, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco in Guadalajara, and chamber orchestras in Switzerland and Romania. She has received a steady surplus of awards and honors, from the Lillian Gutman award at the Peabody Conservatory to a career grant from the Seymour Obermer Foundation, as the well as the Prix Mieville –Hory from Switzerland and several European competition prizes. Lori studied with John Perry at USC and Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory. She lives in Chicago with her family and is a member of the faculty of the People’s School of Music.