Seth Knopp, piano (Putney, VT), was a founding member of the Peabody Trio (1987-2017), recipient of the 1989 Naumburg Award. After making its Alice Tully Hall debut in 1990, the Peabody Trio’s reputation as champions of new works as a part of their core repertoire, allowed them the opportunity to commission and perform the music of many of the most inspired voices of our time. In almost three decades as Artistic Director of Yellow Barn, Seth has built an international center for chamber music, bringing musicians and audiences to Putney, Vermont each summer. In 2008, he created Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies, the first residency program for performing musicians in the United States. In 2020 Seth created Beethoven Walks, a project that opened in honor of Beethoven’s 250th birthday and are dedicated to the world his music shows us is possible. Other recent projects include transcriptions of Bach’s Musical Offering and Chaconne, the premiere recordings of Jörg Widmann’s song cycle Das Heiße Herz with baritone William Sharp and Eric Nathan's song cycle Some Favored Nook with William Sharp and soprano Tony Arnold, and performances with members of the Brentano String Quartet for the opening of the Chou Wen-Chung Center in Guangzhou, China. For thirty-five years Seth was a member of the piano and chamber music faculties at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Among his many mentors, he studied formally with Leonard Shure at the New England Conservatory, Nathan Schwartz at the San Francisco Conservatory, and with Leon Fleisher. This year marks Seth Knopp’s 28th summer as Artistic Director of Yellow Barn.