NOON ConcertS presents THE EARHART TRIO
Kumiko Uyeda, piano; Kate Stenberg, violin; Mary Artmann, Cello
Our concert program begins with Schubert's haunting second movement of his second piano trio. The melody of this famous movement was taken from a Swedish folk song Se solen sjunker ("The sun is setting"). This is followed by a work for violin, cello, and piano by the Danish composer Bent Sørensen, thus the title "Echoes of Scandinavia." The echo extends to Russia, specifically Siberia, where Shostakovich's roots are from, and around the globe to Argentina, the birthplace of tango and Astor Piazzolla.
Kumiko Uyeda, piano; Kate Stenberg, violin; Mary Artmann, Cello
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
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
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. 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.
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ABOUT NOON CONCERTS Our 2024 season of signature Noon Concerts fills the theater with the intimate warmth and beauty of superbly talented Bay Area, National and International talent. All concerts are free to the pubic, we welcome everyone through our doors. Join us to celebrate the transcendent power of live music.
CURATOR We have had the good fortune to have Beni Shinoharas our Noon Concerts Curator over the last 9 years. She is a highly respected Bay Area musician who is in demand for her talent and dedication. She has made our Noon Concerts one of the area’s sought-after engagements for many performers and we are thrilled to have her curating our Season once again.