Violin and piano virtuosos Min-Young Kim (a University City resident) and Michal Schmidt will perform for an audience of 12 at the beautiful University City residence of Michael and Daphne Parker.  Wine and light refreshments will be available after the concert.  This auction item is one of our most popular. 

 

Violinist Min-Young Kim is a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet. She has toured extensively with Musicians from Marlboro, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has also collaborated in festivals and performances with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Cleveland, Takács and Vermeer Quartets. An advocate for music of our time, Ms. Kim enjoys working closely with composers and has premiered and performed many new works. A graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School, Ms. Kim teaches violin and chamber music at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Israel musician Michal Schmidt served as the Brandywine Visiting Artist at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. In this role she performed concerts and taught master classes at the university throughout the academic year 2013-2014. In fall 2014 Michal was invited to be the principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for a twenty-city tour with the orchestra and soloist Branford Marsalis.

She is an instructor for cello and chamber music at Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges, as well as Swarthmore College. At the University of Pennsylvania she teaches in the College House Music Program.