Violinist Julia Sakharova Featured on New Rachmaninoff Release By Marci Janas ’91
			Violin performance major Julia Sakharova is featured on a new compact disc recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s "Elegiaque Piano Trios," recently released by Tavros Records. The CD, which is available on amazon.com, also features Korean pianist Yung Wook Yoo and Icelandic cellist Margret Arnadottir. Sakharova and the other members of the trio attended the summer 2001 session of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. According to producers at Tavros, the three musicians performed just one movement of Rachmaninoff’s Trio Élégiaque in D minor in a master class and immediately landed a contract with Tavros Records for a CD recording of the entire work. The producers recount the experience on the Tavros website. The Tavros producers write that the recording, a 64-minute CD containing Piano Trio Élégiaque in D minor, Op. 9, and Piano Trio Élégiaque in G minor, Op. Posth. "brings the listener close to the experience of hearing the music performed live on stage." Sakharova, 22, was born in Zheleznovodsk, Russia. A junior at Oberlin, she studies with Professor of Violin Milan Vitek and is a member of the Erato Quartet, winner of the 2001 Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition. Her playing has garnered enthusiastic reviews, including praise in the French publication L'Alsace for her "incredible temperament, very fine sensitivity [and] remarkable colors."
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