HIGHLIGHTS
This
exciting new trio consists of three award winning Juilliard graduates -- a promising
future! RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES
Chamber Music Performance
Clinics
Master
Classes Eclectic - selecting what appears to be best from various
methods or styles, composed of elements drawn from various sources. - Websters
New Encyclopedic Dictionary
The above describes the talented new piano
trio, Eclectica, which consists of the polished performance of pianist, Albert
Tiu, the outstanding young violinist, Joseph Esmilla and featured cellist, Alberto
Parrini. These award-winning soloists have combined to form a truly eclectic experience
in performance.
 Albert
Tiu, Pianist - Born in the Philippines, Albert Tiu received his Master
of Music degree from the Juilliard School in 1996, where he was a scholarship
student of Jerome Lowenthal. Previously, he studied at the Boston Conservatory,
Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and the University of the Philippines. His
past teachers include Michael Lewin and John Winther. The recipient of the 1998
Juilliard William Petschek Recital Award, Albert Tiu was presented in a solo recital
In Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. In 1996, he won first prize in
the UNISA Transnet International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa,
where he was also awarded special prizes for his performances of the Mozart Concerto
K585 and the Rachmaninov Second Concerto. In May 1996, he also won the Julliard
Gina Bachauer Piano Competition, including the Chopin Prize, which resulted in
a live radio broadcast on WQXRNew York. Mr. Tiu has performed in recitals and
as soloist with orchestras throughout the world. Highlights of his performances
in 1999 include a concert tour of South Africa, performing the Prokofiev Piano
Concerto No. 1 with the Cape Town Philharmonic and the National Arts Philharmonic
in Pretoria, the Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody with Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic
in Durban and the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with the National Symphony Orchestra
in Johannesburg. He has also performed in numerous solo recitals throughout the
country. Mr. Tiu currently resides in Forest Hills, NY,
 Joseph
Esmilla, Violinist - Almost as soon as he could say Stradivari, Joseph
Esmilla wanted his own violin. Today, where there is Esmilla, there is likely
to be a polished and pampered 1779 J.B. Guadagnini nearby. For the young Filipino
violinist, concert master and associate conductor for the Manila Chamber Orchestra,
the world at his fingertips thrums and soars on the wings of classical music. "An
artist is not just what he does but what he is as a person," says Esmilla
of his profession. "What you communicate through your instrument is an indication
of what kind of person you are." His early curiosity in the violin was born
in the rehearsal studios of his father, Sergio Esmilla Jr., a violinist and conductor
whose bow and wand are celebrated in the Philippines. By the time Joseph was five,
his father had started him on the violin, following a brief and uninspired trial
with piano lessons. Though he began under his father's tutelage, his training
was eventually handed over first to one and then to another of the most well-known
and highly respected names in the business, conductor Oscar Yatco and violinist
Basillo Manalo. When he graduated from high school and was accepted at Juilliard's
college level, the musician chose to return to Manila instead to deliberate on
the possibility of trading in his music sheets for an engineer's cap. Luckily
for his violin, he returned to New York after a year to pursue a bachelor's degree
in music, funded mostly by a scholarship from the Young Artists' Foundation of
the Philippines and partly by some of his own fancy-fingerwork at a ritzy French
restaurant on the upper West Side. Among the many awards and honors held by
Joseph Esmilla are a scholarship to the Aspen Music Festival and (as a winner)
of the Mannes Concerto Competition. His major teachers include studies in violin
and chamber music with Arnold Stelnhardt and John Dally. Mr. Esmilla received
his Masters in Music at The Juilliard School in 1988. He currently resides in
New York City.
 Alberto
Parrini, Cellist - Originally from Padua, Italy, Alberto Parrini has
established himself as an active soloist, chamber and orchestral musician having
performed in the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Asia. He made his solo debut with the
Orchestra Bartolomeo Bruni in Cunco and Manta, Italy and has performed at such
festivals as Taos, Tanglewood, Evian and the Platagorsky Seminar. He was a featured
soloist, performing with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project on
a tour of Los Angeles, Escondido, Toronto, Princeton, New York and London. Mr.
Parrini won first prize at the National Competitions of Forli and Genoa, and was
a prizewinner in the 1996 Irving M. Klein International Competition. He has been
Principal Cellist of the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra
and the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1996, he performed
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire in collaboration with choreographer Glen Tetley.
He has been featured on WFLN Radio Philadelphia and WGBH Radio Boston, and has
served on the faculty of the American Festival of the Arts in Houston. Mr. Parrlni
began playing the cello at age eight and earned a diploma cum laude from the National
Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, as a pupil of Enrico Egano. He is
a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with David Soyer
and received his Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School as a student
of Joel Krosnick. |
