Kris Palmer, flute
Steven Lin, guitar
Isaac Pastor-Chermak, cello
Trio Sonata in C Minor from Musical Offering by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Drei Nachtstücke (1990) by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer (b. 1941)
Hungarian Trio (2012) by Nathan Kolosko (b. 1975)
“Black Cedar forges a new repertoire with flair.” says San Francisco Classical Voice. The Black Cedar Trio’s accolades include multiple grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and InterMusic SF, an invite to the National Flute Association Convention, and a critically acclaimed 2016 debut album, A Path Less Trod. "While the instrumentation is unconventional, it is surprisingly effective,” writes Stephen Smoliar of The Rehearsal Studio. The trio’s commissions include Javier Contreras’ Tres Colores (2018), Andre Gueziec’s In the Spring (2018), Ursula Kwong-Brown’s In Transit (2017), Mark Fish’ The Devil Inside (2016), Miscellaneous Music (2015) by Durwynne Hsieh and Of Emblems (2014) by Garrett Shatzer. Their annual Local Composers in Public Libraries is in its fourth year of bringing contemporary music to new audiences in San Francisco and Berkeley, and their Chamber Music Outreach at the Arc of the East Bay has brought classical music to persons with developmental disabilities since 2013. www.blackcedartrio.com
Kris Palmer is a winner of the Carmel Chamber Music Society Competition, a second prize winner in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition, and a Carnegie Hall Recital Debut winner with Artists International. She is a former member of the New Mexico Symphony, and she holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rice University. The New York Concert Review calls her "clearly among the few current performers on any instrument to fully understand the nature of French Baroque music." Kris is on the faculty of the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley, and she lectures throughout country on eighteenth-century performance practices. www.krispalmer.com
Steven Lin is a winner of both the Boston GuitarFest Competition and the East Carolina University Guitar Competition. A recording artist for VGo Recordings, Steve has released two albums, Eliot Fisk Series Vol. 1, and Imagen. Classical Guitar magazine calls Lin "a confident player with a powerful sound, quick hands, and a solid musical memory." Steve holds a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music and is the Professor of Guitar at San Jose State University. www.linguitar.com
Isaac Pastor-Chermak is Principal Cellist of Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony and Lake Tahoe Music Festival; Associate Principal Cellist of Stockton Symphony; Assistant Principal Cellist of Opera San Jose and Eisenstadt Classical Music Festival; and a member of Santa Barbara Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Black Cedar Trio, and Ensemble 1828. Isaac earned a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from U.C. Berkeley, and a Master of Music, with honors, from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. www.isaacpastorchermak.com