Welcome to St. Paul’s Concert Series, providing world-class performances at a donation-based family-friendly admission price. Please scroll below to see our next scheduled performance, register to attend, and make a donation if you wish.
Presenting:
We welcome a live audience to our concerts! We also continue to broadcast our performances simultaneously online for those who prefer a remote experience. To register for the online concert link, click HERE. You will receive an email with your registration confirmation, and the link to the live broadcast of the performance.
After the performance, our performer(s) will engage with our audience through comments submitted online and from the in-house audience.
Donations for this performance are optional but gratefully accepted. Average donations for attendees are $20 (adult) or $10 (student). Regardless of donation, all are welcome! We greatly appreciate your support of our artists and our concert program. Please share your support by making a donation HERE.
Concert Program
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About Our Upcoming Performer
Aaron Haas is a classical guitarist based in Los Angeles. A skilled communicator and expressive performer, both his teaching and music serve the purpose of connecting us to what it feels like to be alive and human. From a family of singer-songwriters he understands the power of a musical narrative, and with extensive background in meditation he strives to create music from a place of silence and aliveness.
Aaron’s path has unfolded in unique ways. He began playing electric guitar and writing songs at age 16 and only picked up classical guitar as a sophomore at Skidmore College at age 19. He graduated Summa Cum Laude, having been nominated for the coveted Periclean Scholar’s Award for his senior recital, and moved to Italy the following year to study with the Italian virtuoso, Lorenzo Micheli. After two years of study at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, having honed his skills, he moved back to the states to pursue his master’s degree with a pupil of Micheli’s at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Nicolò Spera. Here his interest in chamber music developed, reconnecting him with his love for songs while studying Lieder with Schubert scholar Yonatan Malin, and performing Britten’s “Songs from the Chinese” with a singer in the graduate program. He also collaborated with woodwind and string players, including the award-winning Altius Quartet, performing Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Quintet Op. 143.
Having completed his master’s degree, Aaron attended the prestigious Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Oscar Ghiglia in the summer of 2015, and then accepted a scholarship to study for his Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California. As a student of pedagogue and LAGQ co-founder William Kanengiser at USC, Aaron found encouragement to combine his two great passions, meditation and music, one byproduct of which was an article published in the Journal of Singing in 2018 entitled “Creativity Through Silence: Exploring the Use of Meditation in Musical Performance.” Furthering his exploration of chamber music, he met soprano Anastasia Malliaras, later adopting the name Duo Apollon. In 2018 they won the Beverly Hills National Auditions and performed concerts around the Los Angeles area, and are just finishing their debut album, “Folk Songs,” a collection of 20th century folksong arrangements from around the world, which includes Aaron’s own transcription for guitar and voice of Ravel’s “Cinq mélodies populaires grecques.” He was awarded a Teaching Assistant in his final year at USC, and completed his degree in 2019.
About the St. Paul’s Concert Series
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is pleased to bring this year-round concert series at an affordable, donation-based cost. Concerts are performed in the beautiful St. Paul’s sanctuary near downtown Walnut Creek and are also streamed live online. Our concert series presents in-person* world-class performances in an intimate setting along with free parking and convenient nearby access to Walnut Creek BART. Or, if you choose to enjoy our performances from the comfort of your own home, join us online on YouTube!
*As of 9/1/22, Masks will be recommended, but not required for attendees of our concerts. Vaccine status will no longer be checked. We will continue to seat our audience with acceptable spacing to reduce risk of transmittance.
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