Over 20 years, the Poulenc Trio – pianist Irina Kaplan Lande, oboist Aleh Remezau and bassoonist Bryan Young – has created a reputation as a premier piano-wind ensemble, performing across the United States and at festivals throughout Europe. Praised by the Washington Post as “urbane and sophisticated with near-effortless lightness and grace,” the trio has taken its artistry beyond concert halls and festivals and into other realms of the arts with projects such as Music at the Museum, collaborating with the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Its members have expanded the repertoire of their instruments, commissioning more than 20 new pieces. Poulenc Trio will be joined by acclaimed Guyanese-American soprano Shawnette Sulker, who has been featured with the San Francisco Opera, Intermountain Opera Bozeman, West Edge Opera and the Santa Rosa Symphony, and has received praise from the San Francisco Chronicle for her “heart-breaking poignancy.”

The Harker School is a non-profit, private K-12 school in Silicon Valley that has earned international recognition for its top academics, quality teachers and students' achievements. Founded in 1893, Harker is the largest independent school of its kind in California, with a dedicated campus for each of its divisions – elementary school, middle school and upper school – in San Jose, Calif.