Roussel: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-2 & String Trio David Bowlin, Tony Cho, Kirsten Docter, Dmitry Kouzov

• Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937): Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 11:
• 1 Roussel: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 11: I. Lent - Très animé 12:12
• 2 Roussel: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 11: II. Assez animé 10:24
• 3 Roussel: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 11: III. Très animé 09:36
• 4 Roussel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 28: I. Allegro con moto 05:09
• 5 Roussel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 28: II. Andante 04:58
• 6 Roussel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 28: III. Presto 04:40
• String Trio, Op. 58:
• 7 Roussel: String Trio, Op. 58: I. Allegro moderato 03:53
• 8 Roussel: String Trio, Op. 58: II. Adagio 06:39
• 9 Roussel: String Trio, Op. 58: III. Allegro con spirito 02:46
• Total Runtime 01:00:17

Info for Roussel: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-2 & String Trio

Although he is best remembered for his highly regarded stage and orchestral works, Roussel also composed a significant body of masterful yet relatively unknown chamber music. The Romantic early First Violin Sonata is an epic journey of soaring majesty, while the later Second Violin Sonata is dramatic and succinct, sharing its dynamic neo-Classical style with the String Trio, Roussel’s last completed work.

David Bowlin, violin
Tony Cho, piano
Kirsten Docter, viola
Dmitry Kouzov, cello

David Bowlin
has led a wide-ranging career as a soloist and chamber musician, garnering critical acclaim for his performances of a broad repertoire. First prize winner of the Washington International Competition, he has performed as a soloist across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Among his dozens of premieres are violin concerti written for him by Marcos Balter, Alexandra Hermentin, and Donald Crockett, with performances at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and at the Aspen Music Festival.

Bowlin is a member of the Oberlin Trio and the Bowlin-Cho Duo. He is also a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and was formerly a member of the Naumburg award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players. Chamber music collaborations include performances as a guest with the Juilliard Quartet; with pianists Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Jonathan Biss, and Jeremy Denk; and with members of the Emerson and Brentano quartets. He has made several tours with Musicians from Marlboro and has been a guest artist with organizations including the Boston Chamber Music Society, ChamberFest Cleveland, the Banff Centre, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Ojai, SongFest, Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, and the Four Seasons festival. He has performed as guest concertmaster with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the IRIS Orchestra, the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, and as guest principal with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Bowlin’s solo and chamber music recordings can be found on the Naxos, Bridge, New Focus, Nonesuch, Arsis, Mode, Tundra, Austrian National Radio, and Oberlin Music labels, with further recording credits including work with Chick Corea for his album The Continents and a number of tracks with Lenny Kravitz.

Bowlin joined the Oberlin Conservatory faculty in 2007 and currently serves as Professor of Violin and Chair of String Studies. In the summer he teaches on the faculties of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and has been on the faculty at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, ARIA, and at the Banff Centre. Former students have won positions with the Chicago Lyric Opera, Milwaukee Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, Ensemble Modern, Komishe Oper Berlin, San Diego Symphony, New World Symphony, and Orchestra NOW, among others.

Bowlin is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University, where he studied with Pamela Frank, Ronald Copes, Philip Setzer, Ani Kavafian, and Roland and Almita Vamos.



Tony Cho
enjoys a wide-ranging career in keyboard collaborative art, as a recitalist, chamber musician, and opera and vocal coach. He has performed at Weill Carnegie Hall in New York City, Meany Hall in Seattle, Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, and many others in the United States and abroad. His performances have been featured live on KHPR in Honolulu, KVOD in Denver, and on WVIZ Cleveland’s Ovations Series. Together with his duo and chamber music partner, violinist David Bowlin, Cho has appeared at Chamber Music Quad Cities, An die Musik NYC, at the University of Connecticut, the University of Washington, Oklahoma State University, and Royal Arts & Music in Seoul, South Korea. He has served on the music staff at many opera houses including Central City, Glimmerglass, Hawaii, Long Beach, Sarasota, Tulsa, and Virginia. He has also been vocal arts coach at The Juilliard School, University of Southern California’s Thornton Opera, and guest coach at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China.

Originally from South Korea, Cho is currently opera and vocal coach at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and during the summer he is on the faculty of SongFest at the Colburn School in Los Angeles.



Kirsten Docter
First-prize wins at the Primrose International and American String Teachers Association Viola Competitions launched Kirsten Docter on a career that includes a 23-year tenure with the Cavani Quartet, concerts on major series and festivals throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, and numerous appointments as a master class clinician and teacher.

During her time as violist of the award-winning Cavani String Quartet, Docter performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, Festival de L’Epau in France, and the Honolulu Chamber Music Society. She appeared in features on the public radio programs Performance Today and St. Paul Sunday and television programs on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS.

Docter’s festival appearances include performances at the Aspen Music Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, Madeline Island, Mimir (in Texas and Melbourne, Australia), Sitka Summer Music, Interlochen, Kneisel Hall, Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk, and the Perlman Music Program. She has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Jaime Laredo, Alisa Weilerstein, Stephanie Blythe, Nathan Gunn, Alessio Bax, and members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, Takács, Emerson, Borodin, and Amadeus string quartets. Her work can be heard on the Azica, Albany, New World, and Gasparo labels.

Docter formerly served on the chamber music and viola faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music and has given numerous master classes at universities and music schools. She has been a jury member of the Primrose International Viola, Fischoff National Chamber Music, and Sphinx competitions.

In addition to her position at Oberlin, she is on the viola faculty of the Perlman Music Program and the Madeline Island Music Camp.



Dmitry Kouzov
A first-prize winner at the International Beethoven Competition in the Czech Republic and a winner of the New York Cello Society Rising Star Award, Dmitry Kouzov has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including the State Academic Symphony of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Ukraine, and the Johannesburg Philharmonic, to name a few. He has recorded cello concertos by Shostakovich, George Walker, and Sean Hickey with the Sinfonia Varsovia and the St. Petersburg Symphony orchestras.

Kouzov has been a guest artist at numerous international festivals including the Verbier Festival, International Bach Festival (Switzerland), Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany), May of Janáček International Festival (Czech Republic), Seoul International (South Korea), and the Kiev Summer Music Nights International Festival (Ukraine), among others. In the U.S. he has appeared at the Caramoor and Ravinia festivals' Rising Stars concert series. And, for the past eight years, Kouzov has served as artist-faculty at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival.

A compelling chamber musician, he was a founding member of the award-winning Manhattan Piano Trio. He has collaborated with Krzysztof Penderecki, Yuri Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Evgenii Sudbin, Nicholas Angelich, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and the Pacifica and Jupiter string quartets, among others. He frequently appears in a duo with his wife, pianist and educator Yulia Fedoseeva.

Among Kouzov’s numerous accolades, he was praised for his “astounding virtuoso skills" (Gramophone) and “bold and hugely committed performances” (The Strad).

Kouzov’s most recent recordings appear on the on Onyx and Delos recording labels and include complete piano trios by Robert Schumann, music for violin and cello by Eisler, Widmann, and Ravel, and an album of French cello sonatas on Delos in collaboration with his longtime chamber partners, violinist Ilya Gringolts and pianist Peter Laul.

Kouzov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he began cello lessons at age 7. A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Lyceum, he went on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in cello performance at the Sibelius School in Helsinki as well as an artist diploma at the Juilliard School.

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