Search - Pierce-Aomori Duo;Daniel Barrett (cello);Joshua Pierce (piano);Hideaki Aomori (clarinet) :: Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Op.120; Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op.114

Hideaki Aomori studied with Ayako Oshima at the Juilliard School and has advanced degrees from Queens College (CUNY) and Stony Brook University (SUNY). He has collaborated with a great variety of artists ranging from Sir Roland Hanna, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Tito Puente, the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, L'Orchestre de Chambre Miniature and many other performing and concert organizations throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Mr. Aomori has had an ongoing collaboration for a number of years with Joshua Pierce in standard and not-so-standard clarinet and piano literature. As one of the finest pianists before the public today, Joshua Pierce is uniquely prepared to perform the chamber music literature having studied with the cellist Bernard Greenhouse (of the Beaux Arts Trio) and the pianist Artur Balsam who was well-known not only as a soloist but also as a chamber musician. Pierces creative sensitivity and his work as an outstanding soloist in contemporary, romantic and classical music makes him an ideal performer of chamber music. He has a long list of Grammy nominations to his credit along with outstanding reviews from a variety of publications including The New York Times, Gramophone, London Telegraph and Billboard. His extensive career includes solo performances and appearances with orchestras and chamber ensembles all over the world including the Royal Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony, London Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Moscow State Philharmonic, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czech National Symphony, Slovak Philharmonic, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Italian Radio (RAI) Orchestra of Rome, Utah Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and, most recently, the Capella Istropolitana in Slovakia. Additionally he has performed with Russia's Leontovich String Quartet, as a member of the New York Empire Trio and many other chamber music organizations. He has recorded nearly 200 works on more than 50 CDs including the complete piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Gershwin and Liszt for MSR Classics, as well as landmark recordings of the works of John Cage, Harry Partch and Charles Ives. Daniel Barrett has a long history of performance with Joshua Pierce going back to the American Microtonal Festival and Mr. Pierce's long association with John Cage. He has performed for Radio France, the Gulbenkian Festival in Portugal, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the STX, SEM and Crosstown Ensembles and WQXR, the classical radio station of the New York Times. He has recorded works of Yannis Xenakis for the Mode and Vanderberg labels, for the Irish ensemble Cherish the Ladies on RCA and for public broadcasting (PBS and NPR). As a conductor, he has led the New York Bach Ensemble, the Absolute Ensemble Chamber Players, the Sound Liberation Ensemble, the West Virginia Symphony, the New York Mandolin Orchestra and North/South Consonance.