Contact: Hsing-ay Hsu, hsingayhsu@gmail.com, 646-413-2507

Hsing-ay Hsu, piano

Kate Arndt, violin

Judith McIntyre Galecki, cello

The Nutmeg Trio infuses the chamber music stage with warmth, color, and a dash of surprise. Like the sweet and savory spice that drove global trade and exploration, the trio brings a distinctive flavor of expansive discovery. The Nutmeg Trio invites audiences to savor music that lingers, amplifies, and enriches the moment.

Steinway Artist Hsing-ay Hsu (“Sing-I Shoo”) has performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center NYC, and in Europe & Asia. As an international prizewinner, producer, educator, studio owner, and adjudicator, she joyfully demonstrates using music to build multidimensional awareness of the human experience. This season’s engagements include the Aspen Music Festival, Cleveland Chamber Guild Series, and Englewood Arts in Denver, with events at Yale School of Music, Juilliard, and TEDx Yale. Ms. Hsu produces Classical Music Explorations in NYC, among other projects, to promote public awareness of listening skills. As creator of Conscious Listening, she hosts a YouTube channel and Café webinars for listeners to practice diverse ways of knowing. Born in Beijing, Ms. Hsu trained at Juilliard and Yale University. A former faculty member at the University of Colorado, she teaches at her Nutmeg Studio NYC and online, Kaufman Center NYC, Rocky Ridge in CO, and Chautauqua Institution adult programs. Artist residencies include the Klavierhaus NYC and Boulder Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Hsu is a regular contributor at Psychology Today on the topics of creativity, education, and artistic intelligence. www.hsingayhsu.com, Youtube, @Hsingayhsu.

A passionate chamber musician, violinist Kate Arndt has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Mellon Music Festival. Kate is currently Principle Second Violin in the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and performs as a guest musician with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Kate has performed as a featured soloist with several orchestras, and participated in the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, Kronberg Masterclasses and Concerts in Germany, IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses in Cornwall, UK, Music@Menlo, Taos School of Music, and the Sarasota Music Festival where she was featured in 2019 as a guest soloist with the festival orchestra. Kate also attended the Four Seasons Winter Workshop at East Carolina University, where she collaborated Robert McDonald, Ida Kavafian, Colin Carr, Misha Amory, Hye- Jin Kim and Ara Gregorian. Her former group, the Isolde Quartet, received an honorable mention at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Kate has collaborated with the Calidore, Callisto, Kodak String Quartets, and Borromeo String Quartet. She holds MM, MMA, and DMA degrees from Yale University with Ani Kavafian and completed her undergraduate studies at New England Conservatory of Music under Miriam Fried.

Judith McIntyre Galecki has performed chamber music with many groups and festivals including the Colorado Chamber Players, the Front Range Chamber Players, the Off the Hook Festival, the Crested Butte Music Festival, the Steamboat Springs Music Festival, Symphonic Salida!, the Englewood Arts Center series, Highlands Ranch Chamber Music series, Cherokee Ranch Chamber music series, the Boulder Library concert series, as continuo player the Bach Ensemble and the Cabrillo New Music Festival in Santa Cruz, CA. Galecki has been Third Chair Cello of the Colorado Symphony since 2003 and held the position of Acting Principal for the 2017-19 seasons. She toured in Europe with the Verbier Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra as Principal Cellist and Assistant principal cellist. She also performed as concerto soloist with the Detroit Symphony, Colorado Symphony, the Windsor Symphony, and the Colorado Young Sinfonia. In the summer, she plays in the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson, WY, and will teach at the Cremona Festival in Italy. Judith holds a BM from the University of Toronto and an MM from the Manhattan School of Music.