Welcome to Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series
ENCORES!
Through this virtual concert hall, we are proud to share exceptional performances by world renowned classical artists in the St. Mark’s in the Valley Episcopal Church. Esteemed concert videographer, Ben Maas, captures the beauty and majesty of the artists' performances. ENCORES! exists to share these performances broadly to enrich people's lives and hearts through the transformative beauty of music.
The first featured concert on ENCORES! is the ebullient and touching
Love Songs & Dances - An Evening of Liebeslieder
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in the Valley on February 12, 2022 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio.)
This concert focused with great joy on works by Brahms including Zigeunerlieder, Op 103,
selections from Hungarian Dances and Neue Liebeslieder- Walzer, Op. 65; arias and a duet
from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and beloved love songs from musical theater
performed by:
The first featured concert on ENCORES! is the ebullient and touching
Love Songs & Dances - An Evening of Liebeslieder
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in the Valley on February 12, 2022 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio.)
This concert focused with great joy on works by Brahms including Zigeunerlieder, Op 103,
selections from Hungarian Dances and Neue Liebeslieder- Walzer, Op. 65; arias and a duet
from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and beloved love songs from musical theater
performed by:
John Churchwell, Music Director of San Francisco Opera, Senior Faculty at Music
Academy of the West & San Francisco Opera
Esther Tonea, soprano and Victor Cardamone, tenor, 2021-2022 Adler Fellows with the
San Francisco Opera
Guest Artist Robert Cassidy, SYV Concert Series Artistic Director
Academy of the West & San Francisco Opera
Esther Tonea, soprano and Victor Cardamone, tenor, 2021-2022 Adler Fellows with the
San Francisco Opera
Guest Artist Robert Cassidy, SYV Concert Series Artistic Director
To enhance your enjoyment of this performance here are the concert program, the texts and translations of the songs, and the Artists’ Bios.
We are deeply grateful to The Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation, which shares our vision and stepped alongside us to sponsor creating an archive of professionally filmed outstanding performances from the SYV Concert Series to make these artists’ brilliant performances easily, broadly, and freely available to music lovers, students, teachers, seniors, and other artists.
During 2025-2026, ENCORES! will next present:
Grammy award and 2024 MacArthur Fellow violinist and producer, Johnny Gandelsman,
performing works for solo violin from his commissioned works This is America – An Anthology 2020-2021.
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in-the-Valley on February 16, 2022 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio).
Schubertiade Part II – a program created by SYV Concert Series Artistic Director Robert Cassidy and performed in February 2024 with the following renowned musicians: Kristin Lee, violin, Karen Dreyfus, viola, Ani Aznavoorian, cello, and Nico Abondola, double bass (all of whom have taught at and or performed at the Music Academy of the West). This outstanding concert featured Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 99 and Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 (Forellenquintett).
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in-the-Valley on February 18, 2024 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio)
John Holiday & Kevin J. Miller in Recital
John Holiday, counter tenor, and Kevin J. Miller, piano performed a gorgeous and moving program of historical significance. It included Four Songs from The Weary Blues song cycle by Florence Price, The Sea Ghost and selections from Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay by Margaret Bonds and songs from Lyric Suite by Robert L. Morris followed by spirituals, traditional, American songbook and contemporary songs.
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in-the-Valley on December 1, 2024 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio)
Grammy award and 2024 MacArthur Fellow violinist and producer, Johnny Gandelsman,
performing works for solo violin from his commissioned works This is America – An Anthology 2020-2021.
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in-the-Valley on February 16, 2022 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio).
Schubertiade Part II – a program created by SYV Concert Series Artistic Director Robert Cassidy and performed in February 2024 with the following renowned musicians: Kristin Lee, violin, Karen Dreyfus, viola, Ani Aznavoorian, cello, and Nico Abondola, double bass (all of whom have taught at and or performed at the Music Academy of the West). This outstanding concert featured Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 99 and Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 (Forellenquintett).
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in-the-Valley on February 18, 2024 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio)
John Holiday & Kevin J. Miller in Recital
John Holiday, counter tenor, and Kevin J. Miller, piano performed a gorgeous and moving program of historical significance. It included Four Songs from The Weary Blues song cycle by Florence Price, The Sea Ghost and selections from Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay by Margaret Bonds and songs from Lyric Suite by Robert L. Morris followed by spirituals, traditional, American songbook and contemporary songs.
(Filmed at St. Mark’s in-the-Valley on December 1, 2024 by Benjamin Maas, Fifth Circle Audio)
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY CONCERT SERIES
c/o St. Mark’s in-the-Valley
P.O. Box 39, Los Olivos, CA 93441
www.smitv.org/syv-concert-series
For more information or questions:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 805-705-0938
c/o St. Mark’s in-the-Valley
P.O. Box 39, Los Olivos, CA 93441
www.smitv.org/syv-concert-series
For more information or questions:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 805-705-0938
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