The KKR Trio will perform a donor-supported concert at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Grand Gallery as part of the museum’s weekly series, “A Little Lunch Music.” The group features violinist Helen Kim, cellist Charae Krueger, and pianist William Ransom performing Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Piano Trio, op. 97,” famously known as the “Archduke Trio.”
A gift from Janne Debes and Ken Autrey and gifts from Friends of the Series have helped to make this performance possible.
With two degrees from The Juilliard School, Kim is the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. She served as assistant and associate concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony and is currently the assistant concertmaster of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra. She is Professor of Violin at Kennesaw State University and performs with new-music ensembles Bent Frequency, Sonic Generator, Thamyris, and recently joined the Atlanta Chamber Players.
Krueger is principal cellist for both the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and Cello Artist-in-Residence at Kennesaw State University. She has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today, WABE Radio Atlanta, and WGBH Radio Boston. She has recorded on albums of Bruce Springsteen, Faith Hill, and Natalie Cole. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from New England Conservatory and holds an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music.
One of Musical America Worldwide’s “30 Musical Innovators,” Ransom collaborates with musicians including Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, and William Preucil, among others. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he is now Director of Piano Studies and the Mary Emerson Professor of Piano at Emory University. He is Artistic Director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, and the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival.
