A Viennese evening with a twist.

David Steinberg, violin
Laura Mount, viola
Eliot Bailen, cello

Musical Program to include

W.A. Mozart Duo for Violin and Viola K.423
Ludwig van Beethoven With two eyeglasses obligato for viola and cello
Franz Schubert String Trio in B flat D471
Adolphus Hailstork Duo for violin and viola
Manuel Ponce Petite suite dans le style ancien for string trio
Julie Mandel Moods for string trio

Featured Artists

David Steinberg violin

American born violinist David Steinberg has played with Orchestra Lumos since 1994 and became a member in 1997. He was raised in Canada and brought to New York under the guidance of Ivan Galamian. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music degrees and is also a graduate of Juilliard’s pre-college division. He has been heard as a soloist, recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician in both the U.S. and Canada. His Canadian performances have been heard on CBC Radio, including CBF-FM’s “Music from Montreal” and has appeared in Montreal’s Pollack Hall, as well as the Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur. He has also been heard at Columbia University’s I.I. Rabi Memorial Concert series. He is active in New York City and the tri-state area. Orchestras he has appeared with include: the Montreal Symphony, the American Symphony, the Opera Orchestra of NY, the N.E. PA. Philharmonic, the L.I. Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Cecilia Chorus & Orchestra, the Master Works Chorus & Orchestra, the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Summer festivals include: the Bard Music Festival and the Great Music West (Utah). In the commercial realm, he has played with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr. and Rosemary Clooney among others. He is currently Concert Master and a soloist with the Doansburg Chamber Ensemble in Putnam County. He resides in New York City with his wife, actress and singer, Victoria Devany. Hobbies include reading and Tai Chi.

Laura Mount viola

Liana Laura Mount, violist, was awarded a DMA from the Juilliard School. Her teachers included William Lincer, Karen Tuttle, Leonard Mogill, Donald Wright, Stephen Clapp and Francis Tursi. She has performed throughout Asia and Europe with La Sinfonica Galicia. She appears frequently with orchestras in the Tri-State Area. She is a member of the Columbus Chamber Players and the North South Consonance. She was formerly the faculty of Hunter College High School, Hunter College and Queens College. She has been on the faculty of Mannes Preparatory Division since 1994.

Eliot Bailen cello

Eliot Bailen has an active career as an artistic director, cellist, composer and teacher. Strings Magazine writes, “At Merkin Hall ‘cellist Eliot Bailen displayed a warm focused tone, concentrated expressiveness and admirable technical command always at the service of the music.” Founder and Artistic Director of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, now in its 36th year, whose performances the New York Times has described as “the Platonic ideal of a chamber music concert,” Mr. Bailen is also Founder and Artistic Director of Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom in New York and Artistic Director of the New York Chamber Ensemble. Principal cello of the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, New York Chamber Ensemble, Orchestra New England, Teatro Grattacielo and the New Choral Society, Mr. Bailen also performs regularly with the Saratoga Chamber Players, Cape May Music Festival, Sebago-Long Lake Chamber Music Festival as well as with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York City Opera and Ballet, American Symphony, Orchestra Lumos and New Jersey Symphony. Heard frequently in numerous Broadway shows, in 2015 he was the solo cellist for Allegiance. Among Mr. Bailen’s commissions are an Octet, a Double Concerto for Flute and Cello, Perhaps a Butterfly and the Saratoga Sextet. His musical, The Tiny Mustache, has recently received a third grant for further development from the Omer Foundation. Mr. Bailen has also received over thirty-five commissions for his “Song to Symphony” for schools (subject of a NY Times feature article Sept. 2006 and winner of a Yale Alumni Grant). In 2002, he received the Norman Vincent Peale Award for Positive Thinking. Mr. Bailen received his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from Yale University and an M.B.A. from NYU. He is on the cello and chamber music faculty at Columbia University and Teachers College.

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