The Hoffman Trio - A Salon Concert @ Schweikher House

Join us for an intimate performance by Pianist Yuri Ebihara, Cellist Brian Hoffman and Violinist Yuri Uomizu in the living room of the historic Schweikher House.

Doors open 2:30, performance at 3pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, op. 8

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, op. 8

Pianist Yuri Ebihara was born in Aichi, Japan and graduated from the Music Department of the Nagoya City Kikusato High School. She then graduated top of her class from the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. There she received the Kuwabara Prize, awarded to the top student, as well as a university scholarship, and later, a Master’s degree and Ph.D. (2016) from the Graduate School. In the doctoral program, she researched performance aesthetics from the perspective of Debussy's fingerings under the research theme of "Debussy's Performance Aesthetics: From the Fingerings of Chopin's Complete Works Revised by Debussy". She has studied piano under Rieko Watanabe, Midori Sano, Haruko Kasama, Vadim Sakharov, Atsushi Kitazumi, and Emiko Kumagai. From 2015-2021, she served as a part-time lecturer at her university, teaching piano and solfège. In 2019, she served as a Lecturer at the NHK Cultural Center Nagoya. She has also served as Director of the Japan Chamber Music Academy and as an Executive Committee Member of the Nagoya Ensouka Ikuseijyuku. In 2001, she won the 1st Prize in the high school division of the 55th Mainichi Gakusei Ongaku Concour, Piano Section, Nagoya. In 2007, she won the 1st Prize and Solo Grand Prize of the Huppel Peace Memorial Tosu Piano Competition, and the same year was specially invited to perform for the Governor of Aichi Prefecture.

Cellist Brian Hoffman performs throughout the United States and abroad as soloist, chamber musician, and principal cello of numerous orchestras. Mr. Hoffman has performed in masterclasses with Joel Krosnick of the Juilliard School and Juilliard String Quartet, soloist Alban Gerhardt, the Guarneri String Quartet, the Ying Quartet, Benjamin Zander, Sir Simon Rattle, and Riccardo Muti. His awards include the First Place in the NCMA Cello Competition, the Armfield-Eichhorn Award for Outstanding Musical Achievement, MTNA Chamber Music Competition National Finalist, Northwestern University’s Esther Yochim Fellowship, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago’s J. Critser Fellowship. He holds degrees in Cello Performance and Pedagogy from Oberlin College (BM) and Northwestern University (MM), where he served as Teaching Assistant to Professor Hans Jensen. Mr. Hoffman is the Director of the Midwest Conservatory of Music and Executive Director of the Midwest Philharmonic Orchestra based in Schaumburg, IL.

Violinist Yuri Uomizu was born in Tokyo, Japan. She attended the Geidai College of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. After graduating, she began studying with Katsuya Matsubara and Teiko Maebashi, and became a Yamaha Music Foundation scholarship recipient with Prof. Roman Nodel at the University of Music and Music Performing Arts Mannheim. After the concert exam with Prof. Nodel, she took up additional studies in chamber music together with her string quartet, “Tramonto,” with Prof. Susanne Rabenschlag. She also took part in numerous master classes, working with Thomas Brandis, Saschko Gawriloff, Stefan Picard, and the Verdi Quartet. Numerous prizes and awards have documented Yuri Uomizu's artistic career, including 1st Prize, the Legacy Prize and the Yamaha Prize at the 3rd Legacy Competition in Japan. In the summer of 2008, she became concertmaster of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under Jun Märkl. From 2010 until her move to the Chicago area, she served as first violin in the Hessian State Orchestra in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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