The Gabrielli Trio: James Buswell, violin, Michael Haber, cello, Seth Carlin, piano

Frank Martin ( 1890-1974 ) Trio on Irish Folk Songs (1925 )

Allegro moderato 4:37
Adagio 5:47
Gigue 5:31

Live performance recorded at The University of Akron's Guzzetta Recital Hall in 1994

The Gabrielli Trio was ensemble in residence at The University of Akron, in Akron, Ohio, from 1983-2006. The group was named after the beautiful Italian cello I bought in 1970 when I was a member of The Cleveland Orchestra: it was made in Florence in 1770 by Giovanni Baptista Gabrielli and is the instrument I play on all these recordings. I was the cellist through all of the Trios many incarnations. Violinists Larry Shapiro, Andrew Jennings, James Buswell, Sheryl Staples, Lev Polyakin, Ellen DePasquale and Paul Kantor, pianists Richard Goode, Carmen Or, Seth Carlin, Andrew Rangell, Paul Schoenfield, Victor Rosenbaum and Anne Epperson and violists David Schmuckler and Alan Bodman joined me in concerts throughout those years which I am sharing on Youtube. Almost all of them are live performances: I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed playing them.

Michael Haber

Cellist Michael Haber is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University and did graduate work at Harvard and Indiana University. His cello teachers were Janos Starker, Mihaly Virizlay and Gregor Piatigorsky. He is a former member of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, the Casals Festival Orchestra under Pablo Casals and was the principal cellist of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. As cellist of the Composers Quartet, in residence at Columbia University, he toured and recorded internationally, as he did with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. For more than 20 years, he was the cellist of The Gabrielli Trio. Mr Haber has been on the cello and chamber music faculties of Oberlin College, The Eastman School of Music, the Indiana University School of Music, The New England Conservatory, Boston University, The University of Akron and also taught and performed at many summer music schools and festivals, including Aspen, Marlboro and Yellow Barn. For ten years he was a regular coach for the musicians of The New World Symphony in Miami Beach. He has given master classes in universities all over the USA and in Australia, New Zealand, Egypt and Switzerland. Among the comments for Mr Haber’s performances, the New York Times spoke of the “ lyricism and perfection” of his playing, the London Times called him “ a romantic cellist “ and The Cleveland Plain Dealer “ a superb musician.”

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