A nice piece in today’s Newburyport Current on Ensemble Epomeo and our upcoming concert at the Newburyport\u00a0 Chamber Music Festival.<\/p>\n
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\nIt\u2019s never easy getting face time with David Yang.<\/div>\nThe artistic director of the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival since its inception seven years ago, Yang is also an in-demand performer, the leader of the storytelling and music troupe Auricolae, director of chamber music at the University of Pennsylvania and member of Poor Richard\u2019s String Quartet.<\/p>\n
But this is the start of an especially busy season for Yang. He\u2019s on a plane with a laptop, dashing off a response to questions about Trio Epomeo, which will perform June 6 in Newburyport. He\u2019s en route to Rome via Frankfurt, then off to the beautiful isolation of Ischia, home to the Festivale d\u2019alla Musica da Camera d\u2019Ischia in Italy, a weeklong chamber music festival and intensive workshop where he has been a resident coach and performer for years.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also the place where he met first violinist Byron Wallis, concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre Fran\u00e7ais Alb\u00e9ric Magnard in Paris, and cellist Kenneth Woods, founder of the Taliesin Trio and the Masala String Quartet \u2014 making it the birthplace of Trio Epomeo. The name comes from the non-active volcano that dominates the landscape of the small, sun-drenched island in the Bay of Naples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n