KENYON HALL PRESENTS
Laure Struber Piano Trio
Luke Fitzpatrick (violin and viola), Hsing-Hui Hsu (clarinet), and Laure Struber (piano)
Sunday, July 14 2024
Doors: 2:00pm / Show: 2:30pm
All Ages
Seated
$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student
Program Notes:
Charles Ives - Largo S.73
Igor Stravinsky - Soldier’s Tale
Intermission
Alban Berg - Adagio from Kammerkonzert
Thea Musgrave - Pierrot
Hsing-Hui Hsu received her Bachelors of Music in clarinet performance from Rice University, where she also served as Music Director of the Rice Light Opera Society. While working as a software engineer at Amazon, she became a founding member of the Amazon Symphony Orchestra and served as Music Director, collaborating with other arts organizations in the Seattle area as well as charitable organizations such as Mary’s Place. Hsing-Hui is committed to making classical music more accessible to modern audiences — a mission she pursues as a board member for Emerald City Music. Last season, she performed the Copland clarinet concerto with the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, where she also serves as principal clarinet. She is the bass clarinetist with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and has also played with the Seattle Philharmonic, Pacific Northwest Opera, Sustain Music Project, Tacoma Opera, and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra. Her principal teachers include Sidney Forrest, David Peck, Michael Webster, Thomas LeGrand, and Laurie de Luca.
Luke Fitzpatrick is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and artistic director of Inverted Space, a Seattle-based new music collective. He recently performed the US Premiere of Isidora Zebeljan's Three Curious Loves with Seattle Philharmonic and the world premiere of Joël-François Durand’s La descente de l’ange for violin and clarinet . Additionally Luke has performed with Deltron 3030, Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective and as a touring member of the Harry Partch Ensemble. He has appeared on recordings released by Ablaze and Centaur records. As a composer, his work has been commissioned and performed by The Harry Partch Ensemble, Figmentum, the Morsel Trio and the Parnassus Project. Luke received his training from UMKC (BM), CalArts (MFA) and the University of Washington (DMA) and is currently concertmaster of Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Festival Orchestra and Federal Way Symphony. He also plays with SMCO, NOCCO and the Portland Opera Orchestra. Besides music related things, Luke is an avid dancer and enjoys biking, eating sushi and collecting shoes.
French-born musician Laure Struber started playing the piano at the age of 3. A few years later she entered the Strasbourg Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division, and performed regularly in France and Germany throughout her childhood. She came to the United States for the first time when she was 20, through an exchange program between Strasbourg University and Syracuse University, and continued her studies as a Fulbright scholar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, earning a Master in Piano Performance. She settled in Seattle in 2014, where she earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Washington.
In the past decade, Laure has performed widely throughout Europe and in the United States as a soloist, chamber musician, and keyboardist for ensembles such at the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Inverted Space, Harry Partch, and the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra. She has received numerous awards, including a France-Fulbright alumni distinction and a Soroptimist Prize, and was the winner of the University of Washington Concerto Competition for her performance of Chopin E minor Concerto.
Dr. Struber is also a dedicated music educator and has taught for more than a decade in France and in the United States. Determined to bring music to everyone, she created workshops for children with learning difficulties and disadvantaged social backgrounds. She currently teaches in her own piano studio, works for Pacific Northwest Ballet as a rehearsal pianist, and performs regularly both in solo and chamber music concerts.
Laure currently lives in West Seattle with her husband Spencer, her baby girl Charlotte, and her golden retriever Bennie.