Friday, May 11, 2018 — 5:30pm
Music of Saint Saëns, Pachelbel, Franck, Handel, Massenet, Bach, and Mozart
The Maia Trio is comprised of three highly skilled, classically trained musicians featuring violin, cello, and piano. We enjoy performing at celebrations of all kinds, including concerts, weddings, special anniversaries, cocktail receptions, and any occasion which is improved by great classical music. We specialize in arrangements of well-known melodies drawing from the symphonic, operatic, sacred and secular traditions. For bookings please email us at maiamusicnm@gmail.com
Donna Bacon is a senior at the University of New Mexico majoring in violin performance. She became a section member of the New Mexico Philharmonic violin section in 2016. She has attended Kent/Blossom Music Festival, Round Top Festival Institute, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and New Mexico Chamber Music Festival. Donna won the University of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2015 and the Albuquerque Youth Symphony 2013-2014 Concerto Competition. She was a finalist in the Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition in 2012 and as well as the University of New Mexico Summer Institute Bach Competition in 2015, receiving second prize in 2016. She has performed in masterclasses for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Szymanowski String Quartet, the La Katrina Quartet, Jennifer Koh, Frank Almond, Sergiu Schwartz, Felix Olschofka, and Rachel Barton Pine. Donna is a regular substitute for the Santa Fe Symphony. She currently studies with Dr. Cármelo de los Santos.
Elizabeth Purvis is an active section cellist with the El Paso and Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestras and proud member of The Maia Trio. She is a former member of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and the Lubbock Educational Outreach String Quartet. Ms. Purvis holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from the University of New Mexico and a Master’s in Music Performance from Texas Tech University. Often joining the Tucson Symphony, Roswell Symphony, Southwest Symphony of Hobbs, and the Red Rock String Ensemble in performance, Ms. Purvis has also performed with the Big Springs Symphony, Lubbock Chorale, ‘New Music, New Mexico’, and the Permian Basin String Quartet. She attended the Brevard Music Center Institute in 2012, and the Hot Springs Music and Rocky Ridge Music Center festivals in 2014, performing in principal orchestral positions and chamber collaborations. She also performed with the Texas Festival Orchestra and Texas Festival Chamber Orchestra as an artist at the International Festival at Round Top in 2015. Furthermore, Ms. Purvis has enjoyed working with youth orchestras and programs across New Mexico and West Texas, teaching as a cello clinician at Hummingbird Music Camp and numerous New Mexico public schools, and instructing at the collegiate level as Teaching Assistant of Cello at Texas Tech University from Fall 2013 to May 2015. Key instructors include Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes at Texas Tech University, Dr. David Schepps at the University of New Mexico, Gloria dePasquale of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and summer study with David Premo, Susannah Chapman, Emilio Colón, Stephen Balderston, and Si-Yan Darren Li.
Acclaimed for her ‘solid musicianship, technical security and poise’ by The American Organist (AGO), Maxine Thévenot is a versatile artist hailed for her skillful, musical playing, conducting and accompanying. Winner of the Canadian Bach competition in 2000, her recital career has taken her to major European venues including Westminster Abbey, Notre Dame de Paris, Magdeburger Dom, and Turin, Italy. A featured performer in several national and regional AGO and Royal Canadian College of Organists conventions in the past decade, she has broadcast on CBC, NPR and has made 15 commercially released recordings for RavenCD. Dr. Thévenot is Canon Precentor, Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM. Founding and Artistic director of New Mexico’s professional vocal ensemble-Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Dr. Thévenot is adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico as director of Las Cantantes- women’s choir. As chorus master, she has collaborated with the New Mexico Philharmonic and Performance Santa Fe in large scale choral works. A member of the duo, Air & Hammers, she concertizes with English baritone, Edmund Connolly and is a founding member of The Maia Trio. She is a published choral composer with Paraclete Press. A native of Canada, Dr. Thévenot received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Saskatchewan, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Manhattan School of Music where she was twice awarded the Bronson Ragan Award for ‘most outstanding organist’. Maxine is an Associate of the Royal Canadian College of Organists and of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the National College of Music, London, UK in 2006 for her ‘services to music’.