Crossing Boundaries ~ Traveling Without the Footprint

The Earhart Trio: Kumiko Uyeda, Kate Stenberg, and Mary Artmann perform the evocative piano trios of Franz Schubert (Austria), Bent Sørensen (Denmark), Lera Auerbach (Siberia), Dmitri Shostakovich (Russia), and Astor Piazzolla (Argentina) in their concert Crossing Boundaries ~ Traveling Without the Footprint: Music of Denmark, Siberia, Argentina, and Austria.

Pianist Kumiko Uyeda is an active chamber musician in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area. She performs in various genres, including western art music, Brazilian folk-jazz (choro), and collaborates with poets, global-music instrumentalists, and butoh dancers. She received her M.M. degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music and has published two solo piano CD albums to date: Music of Erik Satie and Art of Love. She received her Ph.D. in cultural musicology from U.C. Santa Cruz with research on the intersections of music and social movements of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan.

A leading interpreter of contemporary chamber music, violinist Kate Stenberg has premiered over one hundred solo and chamber works including works by Gabriella Lena Frank, Peter Sculthorpe, Chinary Ung, Jack Body, Tania Leon, Charles Amirkhanian, Per Nørgård, and Kui Dong in many countries across the globe. Her recordings are available on New World Records, Sono Luminous, Newport Classics, New Albion and Other Minds. She was a co-founder of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and Real Vocal String Quartet and served twenty years as first violinist of the award-winning Del Sol String Quartet. Currently, Stenberg performs regularly with pianist Sarah Cahill and is a founding member of The Mycos Project, an eco-arts collective expanding climate change awareness through the fine arts.

Cellist Mary Artmann is an active chamber musician, recitalist, and freelancer in the Bay Area. Ms. Artmann is a former member of the award-winning Veronika String Quartet, artists-in-residence at Colorado State University-Pueblo. Many of her collaborative performance projects have been sponsored by grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts and the New York State Council of the Arts. She has recorded for Colorado Public Radio, Radio Nuevo Leon, Radio France, WDR (Cologne, Germany) and WBFO’s Opus Classics Series (Buffalo, NY). She was twice the recipient of the Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Fellowship, sponsoring intensive study in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles. Ms. Artmann maintains a private teaching studio in Richmond. She is an avid hiker, a member of the Sierra Club, and is committed to using her skills to address our global climate emergency.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door general admission; $15 for students with ID. Children under 12 are free. Advance tickets are available here, or if the show is not sold out, you may purchase your tickets at the door before the show.

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The Back Room is an all-ages, BYOB (for those 21+) space, dedicated to (mostly) acoustic music of all kinds. You are welcome to bring your own food and beverages. The venue is ADA accessible. If you need more information or have any questions, please call us: #510-381-1997.

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