Earhart Trio in Concert: SPIRAL TIME

The Earhart Trio's members are: Kumiko Uyeda, piano, Kate Stenberg, violin, and Mary Artmann, cello.

Music performed on this evening include the celebrated second piano trio by Dmitri Shostakovich, the whimsical Gypsy piano trio by Joseph Haydn, and the world premiere of a work that was commissioned for the Earhart Trio titled SPIRAL ARM composed by Ben Dorfan.

The concert will be held at the historic Berkeley Piano Club performance hall, 2724 Haste, Berkeley, CA.

Tickets can be purchased on this Eventbrite site or at the door, general admission is $25.

Students are admitted free of charge.

Pianist Kumiko Uyeda is an active chamber musician in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area. She performs in various genres, including western art music, 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. www.kumikomusic.com

A leading interpreter of contemporary chamber music, violinist Kate Stenberg has performed in a dozen countries across the globe. She 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. 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 Del Sol String Quartet. Currently, Stenberg performs regularly with pianist Sarah Cahill and is a founding member of the newly-formed Mycos Project, an eco-arts collective expanding climate change awareness through the fine arts. www.katestenberg.com www.themycosproject.org

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. www.maryartmann.com

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