Icicle Creek Music Center | Leavenworth, Washington

Hailed by Gramophone magazine for its "warmly considered playing" and "shadings of exquisite sheen and vibrancy," The Icicle Creek Piano Trio is the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Icicle Creek Music Center, a non-profit organization in Leavenworth, Washington. As well as offering year-round concerts in the center's picturesque Canyon Wren Concert Hall and an intensive international chamber music festival and institute each July, the artists maintain private studios and offer regular coaching sessions to local and visiting young ensembles.

The members of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio originated from the United States, United Kingdom, and Russia. Together and as individuals, Jennifer Caine, Sally Singer, and Oksana Ezhokina have performed in venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, the Phillips Collection, and the Royal Albert Hall, and have toured in Austria, Germany, France, Italy, and the U.K. Regionally and on the West Coast, they have performed at Pacific Lutheran University, the University of Puget Sound, Cornish College of the Arts, the Seattle Sherman Clay Recital Hall, the Governor's Mansion in Olympia, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Seattle Town Hall, the University of Santa Barbara, and Davies Hall in San Francisco, among others.  The Trio has appeared at chamber music festivals in Sag Harbor, New York and Walla Walla, Washington.  2010 highlights have included performances of Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in Russia and with the Washington Idaho Symphony.  Upcoming performances include a concert at St. John's, Smith Square, London in 2011.

The Icicle Creek Piano Trio's debut recording of Ravel and Schubert E-flat trios was released in 2008 under the Con Brio label and was critically acclaimed by the American Record Guide, The Strad, Gramophone, Fanfare, and others.

For additional information on the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, please visit www.iciclecreekpianotrio.com.

Oksana Ezhokina

Co-Artistic Director & Resident Pianist
Icicle Creek Piano Trio – piano

A winner of several piano and chamber music competitions, Russian pianist Oksana Ezhokina frequently appears as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and Europe, and has been featured on multiple live radio broadcasts on stations including WFMT-Chicago, KUOW-Seattle, and Maine Public Radio.  Her collaborations have included concerts with such ensembles as the Seattle Chamber Players, Klimt Piano Trio and the Contemporary Chamber Players. A dedicated champion and performer of works by contemporary composers, she has premiered music by Laura Kaminsky and Paul Drescher, among others.

Ms. Ezhokina was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2004. She also holds an Artist Diploma from the Ryazan School of Music in Russia, a Master of Music degree in piano from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Music degree from Walla Walla College. Her principal teachers were Christina Dahl, Donald Walker, Leonard Richter and Eleanor Oragyoff, and she has coached chamber music with pianists Gilbert Kalish and Seymour Lipkin as well as members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Orion and Vermeer String Quartets. Ms. Ezhokina is the pianist of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, Co-Artistic Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center, and Co-Director of the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute.

Sally Singer

Co-Artistic Director & Resident Cellist
Icicle Creek Piano Trio – cello

British cellist Sally Singer has given numerous world premiere performances of solo and chamber works in Europe and throughout the United States and performed as a soloist with orchestras in New York, Washington, Connecticut, Bulgaria, and Russia.  Chamber performances highlights include the Tanglewood Music Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, first prize in the John Ireland Chamber Music Competition, British National Televeision appearances, and collaborations with artists Ian Swensen, Nathaniel Rosen, Heasook Rhee, Steven Doane, Anthony Elliott and Rachel Barton Pine. 

 As well as being a member of the acclaimed Icicle Creek Piano Trio, Ms. Singer performs with the New York based group Sankusem, an ensemble dedicated to the exploration of African Art Music written for classical instruments.  As Co-Artistic Director and Resident Cellist of the Icicle Creek Music Center, Ms. Singer co-presents and performs in the Canyon Wren Concert Series, and the Icicle Creek International Chamber Music Festival.  She plays an English cello made in 1835 by Bernhard Simon Fendt.

Jennifer Caine

Assistant Director & Resident Violinist
Icicle Creek Piano Trio – Violin

Jennifer Caine, violinist, was a winner of the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship Competition in 2004 and recipient of several awards including the Royal College of Music's Isolde Menges Prize for solo Bach, the Polonsky Foundation Grant, and the Frank Huntington Beebe Grant for Musicians. She has performed as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician throughout the United States and Europe, and at music festivals including the Olympic Music Festival, Soesterberg International Music Festival, Music@Menlo, and Norfolk, Yellow Barn and Sarasota Music Festivals. Ms. Caine was a co-founder and former member of the Knox Piano Trio, which toured England and Northern Ireland, and she has perfomed in orchestral concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica, and Seattle Symphony.

Ms. Caine is a graduate of Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and holds Masters Degrees in performance and musicology from the Royal College of Music and Oxford University respectively. Her teachers and coaches have included Grigori Zhislin, Zinaida Gilels, Olga Yanovich, Robert Lipsett, Elisabeth Adkins, Robert Levin and Daniel Stepner. She is Resident Violinist and Assistant Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center and violinist of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, collaborates frequently with chamber ensembles in the Seattle area, and is a freelance writer for Strings magazine.