"Three Continents" at the Beethoven Club - Jay Julio, violin/viola & Maeve Brophy, piano in recital

Name: "Three Continents" at the Beethoven Club - Jay Julio, violin/viola & Maeve Brophy, piano in recital
Start: 2025-02-24T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Beethoven Club Memphis

Schedule

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Beethoven Club Memphis | Memphis, TN

Violist/violinist Jay Julio (jayjulio.com), assistant principal violist at Opera Philadelphia & currently on tour with Hamilton, and pianist Maeve Brophy (maevebrophy.com), Assistant Professor of Piano at Rust College, present “Three Continents”, a recital of works for violin/viola and piano spanning four composers from Asia to Europe to North America at the Beethoven Club of Memphis (263 S McLean Boulevard, Memphis, TN 38104) on Feb 24th, 2025, 6 PM.
American composer Florence Price’s recently rediscovered “Fantasie for Violin and Piano No. 1” starts the program on a dramatic and declamatory note, followed by German composer Johannes Brahms’ lush “Violin Sonata No. 1” in three movements. After a brief intermission, Nicanor Abelardo (often called the father of Filipino classical music) is represented by his brief and lovely “Kundiman”, originally for violin and piano and arranged for viola and piano by the performers. The program concludes with Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch’s “Suite 1919” in four movements, inspired by the sounds of Southeast Asian gamelan music, some of which survives today in places like Indonesia and the Philippines.
Program:
Florence Price - Fantasie No. 1 for Violin and Piano in G Minor (1933)
Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major
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Nicanor Abelardo (arr. Jay Julio) - Kundiman
Ernest Bloch - Suite 1919
Free admission; donations gratefully accepted at the door.
Bios:
First-generation Filipino-American Jay Julio (b. 1997) is a multi-instrumentalist, teacher, and composer-arranger currently serving as Violin III / Viola on the tour of Broadway’s Hamilton (Angelica company). Jay is the assistant principal violist of the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra, has been featured as soloist with the Marquette and Ocala Symphony Orchestras and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and can be heard on albums from Broadway, Ravello, and Nonesuch Records, including the 2025 GRAMMY Award-nominated release “Timo Andres: The Blind Banister” with the Metropolis Ensemble.
Jay has been invited to present masterclasses and career talks at the Juilliard School, the University of Arkansas, SUNY Fredonia, the University of Memphis, Interlochen Center for the Arts, the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and other renowned educational institutions. Festival appearances include the Pacific, Aspen, and Grand Canyon Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
A prizewinner in national competitions held by the YoungArts Foundation, the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Music Teachers National Association, and the American Viola Society, Jay holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (BM) and the Juilliard School (MM, Susan W. Rose Graduate Fellow & Music Advancement Program Teaching Fellow, 2019 Juilliard Career Grant recipient).
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Originally from Memphis, TN, Maeve Brophy returned to her hometown in 2019 and in August of 2023 began a position as Assistant Professor of Music at Rust College in Holly Springs, MS, where she teaches applied and class piano and collaborates with vocalists. She is also collaborative pianist for the University of Memphis, where she performs with students, faculty, and guest artists, and she is the Head of Keyboard Studies at Brown Academy of Music at Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southaven, MS, where she teaches piano to children, teenagers, and adults.
Ms. Brophy performs in the Belvedere Summer Chamber Music Festival every year with Luna Nova Ensemble, and she also performs with Blueshift Ensemble for the ICEBERG New Music residency with Crosstown Arts every August. She is an advocate for marginalized composers, and in the fall of 2020 Maeve created a Youtube channel with 80+ videos of solo piano music by women composers and composers of color as an artist resident with Crosstown Arts. She also performs works by composers of color and women with her sister Linnaea as the Brophy Sisters piano/violin duo. Ms. Brophy plays jazz and has composed a small number of solo piano pieces. She also loves clothes and fashion and has gained admiration for her memorable looks on stage.
Ms. Brophy has previously worked as a collaborative pianist for the University of Mississippi and Vanderbilt University and taught piano at Belmont University in Nashville. She is a former member of the Nashville based alt-classical ensemble chatterbird. She currently lives in Bartlett, TN with her daughter and their pitbull Nadia.