{"id":21827,"date":"2025-06-15T01:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/amity-trio-to-perform-music-exploring-love-at-the-sunflower-theatre\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:09:10","slug":"amity-trio-to-perform-music-exploring-love-at-the-sunflower-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/amity-trio-to-perform-music-exploring-love-at-the-sunflower-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Amity Trio to perform music exploring love at the Sunflower Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Amity Trio will perform at the Sunflower Theatre on Friday, June 20. From left to right: Katie Walker, Mike Walker and Kim Carballo. (Amity Trio\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The Amity Trio, a chamber ensemble featuring soprano Katie Walker, pianist Kim Carballo and French horn player Mike Walker, will bring their program of contemporary music to the Sunflower Theatre in Cortez on Friday, June 20 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The trio was formed in 2018, and the members shared that they are dedicated to promoting works by living, underrepresented composers in order to amplify diverse artistic voices through performances, education and community engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmity Trio\u2019s mission is to contribute to a more equitable distribution of artistic voices on a global scale by performing music by underrepresented composers, for a variety of audience interests, locations and socioeconomic strata,\u201d Mike Walker told The<\/em> Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo accomplish this mission, Amity Trio offers creative programming in traditional and nontraditional venues, seeks out meaningful interdisciplinary collaborations, pursues deeper cultural understanding and is a catalyst in the musical dissemination cycle of commissions, performances, recordings, community engagement and education,\u201d he said. \u201cThe trio members had worked with one another prior to our formation, and we were all friends, so we thought it would be fun to make it official.\u201d<\/p>\n

This concert, themed around the nature of love, marks their first appearance at the Sunflower Theatre.<\/p>\n

Based partly in Albuquerque and Bloomington, Indiana, the Amity Trio collaborates remotely, reuniting for performances and teaching engagements.<\/p>\n

Mike shared that the group found out about the Sunflower Theatre through some contacts at the San Juan Symphony<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hoping to connect with our audience in this beautiful and intimate venue; can\u2019t wait to hear the acoustics,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n

The trio\u2019s Cortez program explores love in its many forms: romantic, familial, self-love and cultural devotion, through a curated selection of theme-and-variation pieces.<\/p>\n

The Amity Trio\u2019s formation stemmed from the members\u2019 prior collaborations and shared passion for promoting underrepresented voices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is so much beautiful music out there and we want to make sure everyone can hear it. Amity Trio\u2019s vision is to provide a vital microphone for otherwise muted voices to begin to be heard,\u201d Walker said. \u201cBy being a catalyst for creative engagement with new audiences and underrepresented voices, we can provide a legacy of commissions, performances, recordings and cultural exchange. The Triowill challenge the status quo of musical canon by collaborating with world-class living composers, artists, writers and performers to produce relevant repertoire with staying power.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trio hopes to leave the audience inspired by the beauty and relevance of contemporary music.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is that our audience will come away feeling inspired about the incredible music they heard,\u201d Mike said. \u201cThis concert is a theme and variations on the notion of love itself, turning the idea love over and seeing it from all its angles, in all its guises: romantic love, familial love, false love, self-love and love of one\u2019s culture. As a whole, the works we\u2019ve selected invite us to consider how deep love goes, how we can find love in all facets of our lives and how profound it is to be able to profess love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the concert are available through the Sunflower Theatre\u2019s website<\/a> at www.sunflowertheatre.org or at the venue\u2019s box office. Early booking is recommended due to the theater\u2019s limited seating.<\/p>\n

More information can be found by contacting the Sunflower Theatre at (970) 565-9127 or visiting<\/a> www.sunflowertheatre.org and the trio\u2019s website<\/a> at www.amitytrio.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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