Eastern European trio to take spotlight in Summerlin concert
By JAN HOGAN
VIEW STAFF WRITER
special to viewFrom left, violinist Laraine Kaizer-Viazovtsev, pianist Maria Pisarenko and cellist Elena Kapustina comprise the Mechta Trio, coming to the Summerlin Library Performing Arts Center for a concert Friday.
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The Las Vegas Chamber Music Society plans the first concert of its 2008-09 season for 7 p.m. Friday at the Summerlin Library Performing Arts Center, 1771 Inner Circle Drive.
The free event will feature the Mechta Trio, which consists of a pianist, cellist and violinist, all of whom are classically trained. Mechta means "dream" in Russian.
The Las Vegas-based trio, which formed in June, plans to present the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.
Violinist Laraine Kaizer-Viazovtsev described the pieces the group will perform as "works of art, passionate and deep."
The trio also includes Elena Kapustina, who graduated from the Belarus State Conservatory in 1989 with a diploma as a cellist, chamber music performer and pedagogue, or educator. She is a former member of the Opera-Philharmonic Society Orchestra of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Fellow member Maria Pisarenko, a pianist, was born in Siberia and studied at Central Music School of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and at the Russian Academy of Music Gnesinyh. She has performed as a soloist in Russia, elsewhere in Europe and the United States.
Kaizer-Viazovtsev has an advanced degree. She is currently a violinist in the Las Vegas Philharmonic and freelances as a strolling violinist. But her talent doesn't end there. Kaizer-Viazovtsev also is an artist with a paintbrush in hand. Her paintings can be viewed at www.larainespainting.com.
"I really like playing in a trio," she said. "There's only one of you, so it's your voice and you really get to shine. It's almost like being a soloist."
The trio is slated to perform the same hourlong concert again at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 24 at the Clark County Library Theatre, 1401 E. Flamingo Road.
The Las Vegas Chamber Music Society, established in 2003, brings three to four concerts to Las Vegas each year. Past seasons have featured performances by Ricardo Cobo, Lidia Kaminska and the Colorado String Quartet.
Society President Robert Stewart said he found Kaminska's Web site while searching for something else and clicked on the audio sampling.
"I fell in love with it," he said.
Stewart contacted her and asked her to come to Las Vegas.
"That's kind of what our music niche really is -- bringing music to the masses, but keeping things fresh," he said.
For more information, visit www.lvcms.org or call 507-3863 or 217-7784.
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