The University of Tampa’s artist ensemble in residence, Trio de Minaret, will perform on Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values. The concert is free and open to the public.
Trio de Minaret is comprised of UT music faculty members Lei Liu, violin; Lowell Adams, cello; and Grigorios Zamparas, piano. Guest artist Derek Mosloff, viola, will join them for the performance, which includes Mozart’s Piano Trio K. 564, Schoenfield’s “Café Music” and Dvorak’s “Piano Quartet in E-flat Major.”
Liu teaches violin and viola at UT and has been an assistant concert master for the Florida Orchestra since 1994. He was previously a member of the Florida Symphony Orchestra in Orlando and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
Adams, who is an instructor of cello at UT, is the assistant principal cellist for the Florida Orchestra and the principal cellist of the Lake George Opera in Saratoga Springs, NY. He was an artist-in-residence with the Esterhazy Quartet at the University of Missouri-Columbia and was a member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for the 1996-1997 season.
Zamparas is an associate professor of music and director of piano studies at UT. He is an active concert pianist and performs both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. He has given master classes around the world.
Principal viola for The Florida Orchestra, Mosloff was most recently a viola fellow at New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. He was the principal viola with the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of Indian Hill in Massachusetts. In addition, Mosloff has performed with the Discovery Ensemble and Atlantic Symphony in Boston and The Lincoln Symphony Orchestra in Lincoln, NE.
For more information, contact Zamparas at
gzamparas@ut.edu.