Classical Sunday: Derin Oge & Anneke Schaul-Yoder

Sunday, Nov. 17, 3pm

Tickets $20-$25
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Spencertown Academy Arts Center
790 Route 203
Spencertown, NY 12165

Derin Oge, pianist, and Anneke Schaul-Yoder, cellist, will present an unusual and virtuosic program that includes the spiritual and intricate music of JS Bach’s D Major Gamba Sonata, Lera Auerbach’s charming and surprising Preludes, and the heroic yet contemplative A Major Sonata of Beethoven.

Derin Oge and Anneke Schaul-Yoder have been making music together since 2008, first as members of the Piano Music & Song Trio (with composer Jordan McLean on trumpet) and later in the trio Eudemonia (with Alice Jones, flute) and as a piano/cello duo. They focus on eclectic programs of music with vibrant rhythms and elegant textures. Green Age, the duo’s record of works by Martinu and McLean, is available from System Dialing Records.

A native of Istanbul and longtime resident of Brooklyn, Derin Oge brings a worldly and eclectic view to the music that she plays. With classical and contemporary training, she is at home on the concert stage and in the club. Ms. Oge was trained at Mimar Sinan University, and holds a Masters degree from Purchase Conservatory under the tutelage of Paul Ostrovsky, where she later served on piano faculty. She has played extensively with Piano Music & Song Trio, a chamber ensemble that performs arrangements of Impressionist and Romantic songs for trumpet, piano, and cello. Ms. Oge is also a founding member of Occasional Noise Trio with trombone and percussion. She has played at such venues as Cornelia Street Café, Mozarteum University, Peter de Grote Festival, The Stone, Flushing Town Hall, Barbes, Roerich Museum, and Symphony Space. In addition, her performance of Mozart’s Sonata in Bb Major has been recorded for the European Broadcast Union. Ms. Oge’s recent recordings are distributed by System Dialing Records.

Anneke Schaul-Yoder has performed in period-instrument and modern ensembles at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the 92nd Street Y. A chamber musician across the genre spectrum, Ms. Schaul-Yoder plays regularly with the Piano Music & Song Trio, a trumpet/cello/piano trio that reorchestrates and improvises over art songs; Eudemonia, which presents eclectic programs for flute, cello, and piano; the soprano/continuo Suore Project, which aims to research and record a comprehensive survey of works by 17th-century Italian nuns; and SIREN Baroque, the internationally acclaimed early music ensemble. Her performances of the Bach Solo Suites have been featured at the Bronxville Bach Festival and the Music on Market Series. With the Britten Centenary Quartet, Ms. Schaul-Yoder presented all of Benjamin Britten’s string quartets at Lincoln Center. She has been a featured guest on A Prairie Home Companion, and appeared on Lincoln Center’s “American Songbook” series, televised on PBS. Ms. Schaul-Yoder has recordings on the System Dialing, Island, Naxos, Bridge, and 3rd Generation labels; she has recorded with the Lumineers, Shawn Mendes, and members of Arcade Fire and Antibalas. She studied with Julia Lichten and Marcy Rosen at Yale, Purchase Conservatory, and Mannes. Ms. Schaul-Yoder plays on a French cello from 1713 by Jacques Boquay.