BLUE ROSE TRIO
 The Blue Rose Trio is one of today’s most exciting young ensembles, engaging a diverse public with an uncanny marriage of visceral energy and deep sensitivity. 2006 performances thrilled audiences throughout Israel, China, Alaska, California, Brazil, and France, with the sonic memory of the Blue Rose left ringing in the concert hall, the elementary and high schools, cathedral, hotel ballroom, nightclub, nursing home and living room.
 
The Blue Rose took root and was formed at the University of Southern California in 2003 under the guidance of Peter Marsh, the trio’s coach and mentor, with whom a special connection has grown.
     
Violinist Audrey Solomon of Anchorage, Alaska, crowned Miss Alaska in 2000, came to Los Angeles for studies with Robert Lipsett after attending the Cleveland Institute. Pianist Rose Chen from Taipei, Taiwan, came to USC to study with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, from whom the trio would gain much. She had previously attended the conservatories of New England and San Francisco. Cellist Lars Hoefs of Appleton, Wisconsin, having studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts as well as at Northwestern University, moved to Los Angeles for instruction from Ronald Leonard.
     
After only two years, the Blue Rose Trio captured top prizes in the Coleman, MTNA, and Peninsula chamber music competitions. Audrey has since graduated and currently freelances throughout Los Angeles, providing individual instruction in addition to playing the studios. Rose and Lars continue their USC studies at the doctoral level.
     
The Blue Rose Trio are grant recipients of the Thornton Protégé Program, a unique career launching program that is sponsoring many of their concerts and their soon to be released debut CD. They are also involved in an educational outreach program at USC that brings chamber music to elementary and high schools.
     
The Blue Rose Trio has inspired a number of original compositions, and embraces popular and world music's from diverse cultures. In the river of life, the current constantly changes - it is a movement, a flowing. Contributing sources far and wide feed the undertow; who can say what sounds and colors are growing...