Bonnie Thron and Anatoly Larkin Recital

Bonnie Thron and Anatoly Larkin will present a program of music spanning three centuries, inspired by and centered around a premiere by North Carolina composer John Starosta.

Bonnie Thron - Cello
Anatoly Larkin - Piano

Bonnie Thron joined the North Carolina Symphony as Principal Cellist in 2000. She is an active chamber musician and locally has been a guest with the Mallarme Chamber Players and the Ciompi Quartet. She is a member of Three For All, a clarinet trio with her husband, clarinetist Fred Jacobowitz, and pianist Anatoly Larkin. In the Washington DC area, she has been a guest with the American Chamber Players and regularly performs on the Washington Musica Viva series. In the summers she plays with the Sebago Long Lake Music Festival in Maine. She was a member of the Naumberg award-winning Peabody Trio and played with Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, St. Lukes Orchestra, and was the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Denver Symphony. She has played concertos with the North Carolina Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, the Vermont Symphony, the New Hampshire Symphony, the Panama National Orchestra, and many regional orchestras throughout New England and North Carolina. Thron maintains a large private teaching studio and joined the cello teaching at NC State this season.

Born in 1979, in Russia, Anatoly Larkin has been studying and making music from around the age of 4. After undergraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK, Anatoly completed his doctoral studies in Piano Performance at the University of Minnesota under the advice of Alexander Braginsky. In Minnesota, he was a member of the new-music ensemble Zeitgeist, premiering works by leading American composers. As an active improviser, he frequently collaborated with trombonist Patrick Crossland, clarinetist Pat O'Keefe, and other artists.

Anatoly continues to perform, teach, and, occasionally, compose music. In his teaching studio, he employs the successful ear-training methods of his first music teacher, Nadezhda Matsayeva. His recent and upcoming projects include a Russian Composers special feature on "The Classical Station" (89.7FM), piano recordings with piano technician Marc Wienert, performances with cellist Jonathan Kramer and clarinetist Fred Jacobowitz, as well as the continuing collaboration with composers John Starosta and Craig Bove.