Calichi Trio

Violinist Hsiao-mei Ku, the longest-serving Duke Music faculty member in Calichi Trio, is a member of the Ciompi Quartet and Professor of the Practice of Music. Her fellow Ciompi Quartet member, cellist Caroline Stinson, came to Duke Music in 2018, where she is Associate Professor of the Practice of Music and director of the Chamber Music Program. Pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute joined Duke Music in 2021 as Associate Professor of the Practice of Music.

Gabriel Fauré Piano Trio in d-minor, op.120

Excerpt from Ethel Smyth Piano Trio in D Minor

Ludwig Van Beethoven Piano Trio in F Major, Op. 11

Hsiao-mei Ku, a Naxos Artist, is a Professor in the Department of Music of Duke University. Ku began her professional training at age ten at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, and first appearing on television at the age of eleven. After coming to America, Ms. Ku received her Master of Music degree with distinction and was a recipient of the Performer's Certificate from the School of Music, Indiana University.

Canadian-born Caroline Stinson is cellist with the Ciompi String Quartet and Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University. Ms. Stinson performs widely as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, appearing at Zankel Hall (Carnegie), The Gardner Museum (Boston) and The Smithsonian (DC); the Koelner Philharmonie, Lucerne Festival and Cité de la Musique in Europe, and the Centennial Centre in Canada. She is Principal Cello of the Stamford Symphony in Connecticut, under the direction of Michael Stern, and performs regularly in Canada and Europe in recital.

Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute has been described as "an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament, and persuasive insight" (New York Times) and as possessing "razor-sharp intelligence and wit" (Washington Post). A recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, Ms. Jokubaviciute released her debut recording in 2010 on Labor Records to international acclaim, which resulted in recitals in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D. C., Vilnius, and Toulouse.

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