From the STCU stage.

at KSPS PBS Its Inland Sessions.

String musicians Sarah Catherine and Roberta play a wide variety of classical and popular songs.

The Riverside Trio on Inland Sessions.

Well, I started taking piano lessons when I was three years old with my grandmother when I was three, and she was very patient with me.

And I then started playing cello.

The public school string program started in the fourth grade, and so I started in my public school music program.

I started in public school in fifth grade.

My brother is two years older than me, and he played cello and I just wanted to do everything he did.

And so and he told me to play viola.

So that's why I chose viola.

I also.

Started in public school.

Fourth grade.

Um, my choices were violin and cello, and I think I went with violin because that's what my friends were doing.

Somehow I was quite determined to not make music my vocation because my mother's a wonderful musician and I knew that it was a difficult path.

And I saw that from watching my mother and just knowing that it was, it would be a tough journey.

But the more I decided that music, I couldn't do that for my vocation, the more I was just drawn into music.

As I studied music theory and everything in college, I just could not stay away.

And so here I am.

I've been playing the cello for 40 years, so it's been quite a journey.

And like Roberta, I, I enjoyed music.

It was fun.

I was lucky to play in some an amazing public school music programs, but I had no intention of going into music.

And here I am.

Hear more from the artists on this program on the Inland Sessions podcast available now at KSPS dot org / podcast.