Earhart Trio: Crossing Boundaries ~ Traveling Without the Footprint

The Earhart Trio performs the evocative piano trios of Bent Sørensen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Astor Piazzolla, Franz Schubert and Lera Auerbach.

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. www.kumikomusic.com
Violinist Kate Stenberg is a leading interpreter of contemporary chamber music having premiered over a hundred and fifty solo and chamber music works across the globe. There are many composers who have written for her and her chamber music ensembles: 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 the 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. 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

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, United States