Violin and piano recital on Friday, October 25th, 2024, at 4 PM. The program will feature romantic audience favorites for violin and piano – in the style of Kreisler’s (or Heifetz’s) recitals. Trond Saeverud on violin. Gregory Biss (Eastport) on piano. Boreal Theater Music Cafe.
PROGRAM:
2024 Fall Concert Series
The program features Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5 and also includes Tchaikovsky’s Serenade Melancolique, Sarasate’s Song of the Nightingale, Kreisler’s Old Refrain, and others.
BIOGRAPHY:
Trond Saeverud is a conductor and violinist. He has conducted professional and community orchestras in Denmark, Norway, and the US — most recently in Maine, where he is the founder and artistic director of the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra.
In 2008-2010, Trond conducted the Bangor Symphony Orchestra in several subscriptions and Pops concerts, including a very successful stage production of West Side Story.
As a concert violinist, Trond has been a soloist with major orchestras in Europe, and in the US, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Lincoln Center, New York. He has produced CDs as a soloist with orchestras in Norway and Denmark and regularly premieres new works that are written for him. Trond’s solo CD “Ghosts” received the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy Award (1997). His recital CD “Hika” was editor’s choice, Strad Magazine (2002).
