YuEun Gemma Kim, David Kaplan and Liv Redpath will perform at the Valentine’s Day concert.
St. Matthew’s Music Guild will present its Valentine’s Day Concert “Love Songs,” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, February 14. This concert will take place at St. Augustine’s by-the-Sea in Santa Monica at St. Augustine’s-by-the-Sea Church, located at 1227 Fourth Street, Santa Monica.
Pianist David Kaplan returns with musical friends to the Music Guild for a concert featuring violinist YuEun Gemma Kim, soprano Liv Redpath, violist Che-Yen Chen, cellist Ben Hong, and bassist Jory Herman. The concert will feature the romantic and intimate vocal and chamber music of Schubert, Brahms, Copland, and Caroline Shaw.
Kaplan has been called “excellent and adventurous” by the New York Times and praised by the Boston Globe for “grace and fire” at the keyboard. As a recitalist, he has performed at the Ravinia Festival, Sarasota Opera House, Washington’s National Gallery and New York’s Carnegie and Merkin Halls
Redpath is a leading soprano who is quickly establishing herself in operatic and symphonic repertoire around the world. She has performed with The Metropolitan Opera, The Atlanta Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, and concert collaborations with the Berliner Philharmonic, The English Concert, The Cleveland Orchestra and more.
Redpath will join Kaplan in Aaron Copland’s Songs of Emily Dickinson and songs of Schubert, Brahms and Shaw.
Violinist Kim studied with renowned violinist Midori Goto at the USC Thornton School of Music. She is Concertmaster of The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s, a member of the Yu&I Duo, and performs regularly with the chamber ensemble Delirium Musicum based in Los Angeles, of which she is a founding member.
Che-Yen Chen is a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Professor of Viola Performance and Chamber Music at UCLA. He has been described as a musician who can “find not just the subtle emotion, but the humanity hidden in the music.”
Cellist Hong joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1993, at age 24 and currently serves as Associate Principal Cello.
Herman is “proof that Bassists can be just as nimble and expressive as cellists,” according to The Strad Magazine. He joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2017 and is the Professor of Bass at California State University Northridge (CSUN.)
Tickets are $45 or Music Guild Season pass. Parking is available in the Santa Monica public Parking Structure 1 across the street from the church. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit MusicGuildOnline.org or call (310) 573-7422.
The Music Guild’s regular home, St. Matthew’s Church in Pacific Palisades, was miraculously spared in the Palisades Fire and the Music Guild will return to present concerts there as soon as possible.
Fran and Joe Aponte are in Portland and are not attending, our tickets are in our house.We would like to donate them to anyone you wish to give them to.
but the tickets are not available.We are members of music guild and season tickets holder.
Thanks