In the 2006-07 season, the Claremont Trio, hailed as “deft, exhilarating, and imaginative” by Strings Magazine, embarks on a concert tour throughout every region of the U.S. First recipients of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, the Claremonts (Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, 'cello; Donna Kwong, piano) generate enthusiastic acclaim wherever they perform. The Naples Daily News calls them “the freshest breath of air in the world of chamber music today”.The group’s 2005-06 season featured performances at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, FL, the Irving S. Gilmore International Festival in Kalamazoo, MI, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and with the chamber music societies of Detroit, Utica, Kansas City, Louisville and Sedona. Other season highlights included a 19-city tour of the Midwest and West and performances of a special double trio program presented with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. The Claremont Trio’s season finale performance for the New York Prism Concerts at Central Synagogue was received enthusiastically by the New York Times. In addition, the trio conducted educational residencies in Detroit, Seattle, and Sedona.