Cellist Käthe Jarka has performed widely as a recitalist and chamber musician. A graduate of Juilliard, she was a student of Leonard Rose. She has appeared with numerous ensembles, among them the Shanghai Quartet and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with such artists as the Juilliard Quartet, Gil Shaham, and Yo Yo Ma. She has performed at The Marlboro Music Festival and at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Violinist Jasmine Lin has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the U.S., Singapore, Brazil, Uruguay, and Taiwan. An avid chamber musician, she appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival and inter-continentally with the Chicago String Quartet. She is a current and founding member of the Formosa Quartet, first-prize winner of the 10th London International String Quartet Competition.

Laurie Kennedy has been Principal Violist and frequent concerto soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1981. She is the Director of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival and co-Director, with Yuri Funahashi, of Maine Mountain Chamber Music. She is a frequent guest artist at various chamber music festivals in Maine and around the Northeast. Kennedy received her Masters, as well as the Performers Certificate, from Indiana University School of Music.

Pianist Yuri Funahashi has been a guest at numerous chamber music festivals, and has performed in Japan, Australia, Canada, throughout Europe and in many of the major halls in the U.S. She is a performing member of the Festival Chamber Music Society in New York City, and has collaborated with the Verdehr Trio, and the Brentano and Cassatt String Quartets. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School, and is currently on the faculty of Colby College.

Steven Pane has performed as a solo pianist, chamber musician and conductor at universities and in major halls throughout the country, including the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Aaron Davis Hall in New York City, Davies Hall in San Francisco and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As a student at the Manhattan School of Music, he studied piano with Donn-Alexandre Feder. Pane is currently Professor of Music at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Admission for this concert, is $12, with free admission to those 18 years and younger and to students with ID cards. Call 207-645-2157 for more information.