Solo Spotlights

Making her debut with the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Ally started playing flute at age 8, studying first under Natalie Haworth-Liu and now under Rachel Mellis.

Making her debut with the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Jennifer St. John is majoring in music performance in oboe at California State University Long Beach under the tutelage of Claire Brazeau where she has held the position of principal oboe. In addition to performing with chamber ensembles, she also teaches oboe locally. She has previously studied under Sarah Skuster.
 

Kathryn Nevin earned her MM and DMA in Clarinet Performance from Univ. of Southern California, and her BM from Northern Illinois Univ. As a freelancer in Southern California, she has performed with many orchestras, and is a member of Redlands Symphony Orchestra, St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, Desert Symphony, and Long Beach Municipal Band.

Bassoonist Christin Webb is a freelance chamber and orchestral musician based in Los Angeles and is Professor of Bassoon at Pepperdine University.  Praised for her “perfectly even fast articulations and rich even tone” by The Double Reed Magazine, she is in demand as a studio musician and regularly performs with several Southern California orchestras, including the Santa Barbara and Long Beach Symphonies.

Making her debut with the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Sydney Horst was born and raised in Southern California and has been performing as a soloist and chamber musician for the last ten years.

Born in Philadelphia and making her debut with the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Tali is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and is currently studying classical trumpet performance at the University of Southern California under Jennifer Marotta and Tom Hooten, Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 

Making his debut with the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra and first studying under Amy Bowers, Jason is a 2nd-year undergradate Trombone Performance major at UCLA, currently working with James Miller, Associate Principal Trombone of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The year 2020 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the series Great Music at St. James as well as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the rebuilding of the magnificent 1911 Murray Harris organ in St. James’ Church from the former St. Paul’s Cathedral.