"If Music Be The Food... " Chamber Music Concert to Benefit the Weinberg Food Pantry of JFS

Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin

Sheila Reinhold, violin

Matthew Dane, viola

Seoyoen Min, cello

A short, varied, and joyful concert of selections by Mozart, Bartók, Beethoven and more

Feiner Family Chapel, Temple Emanuel Denver

51 Grape Street, Denver CO 80220

Admission: Please bring non-perishable food items and/or monetary donations for the Weinberg Food Pantry by cash/check. Or donate online (please designate the Food Pantry in the "gift notes" box below the amount)

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"If Music Be the Food..." is a national collection of benefit concerts to raise awareness and support for the hungry in local communities through the sharing of great music donated by professional musicians. The endeavor is entirely volunteer and there is no fixed price for admission -- the audience is invited to bring non-perishable food items or monetary donations of any amount for the partnering food bank. The complete quote from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is "If music be the food of love, play on!"  IMBTF strives to help provide food for our bodies as well as music and community for our souls.

Temple Emanuel Denver is proud to host this joyful annual concert to benefit the Weinberg Food Pantry of Jewish Family Service during the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.

Yumi Hwang-Williams (violin) has served as Concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony since 2000. She made her debut at the age of fifteen as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, six years after emigrating from South Korea, and has appeared as soloist with major orchestras both in the U.S. and abroad, including the Cincinnati Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, Sinfonieorchester Basel (Switzerland), and the Bruckner Orchester Linz (Austria), in addition to frequent performances as soloist with the Colorado Symphony. As a chamber musician, she has performed with Gary Graffman, Ida Kavafian, Jeffrey Kahane, Christopher O'Riley, Jon Kimura Parker, and Andrew Litton, and she is especially committed to the work of current-day composers, Strings magazine calling her “a modern Prometheus” who has “emerged as a fiery champion of contemporary classical music”. She is Adjunct Violin Professor at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music and is actively involved in advancing the arts in the community. In 2021 during the heart of the COVID lockdown, Yumi and Michelle DeYoung, world class singer, co-founded ENSEMBLE CHARITÉ which donates all proceeds from concerts to the partnering charity organization. 

Sheila Reinhold (violin), curator of this concert, first performed as soloist with orchestra in New York City at age nine. At fifteen, she joined Jascha Heifetz’s master class, where she studied for five years. Her career has included chamber music with Heifetz and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, appearances as a soloist with major orchestras, and freelance work from Broadway to movie scores. She has had a lifelong dedication to teaching, serving as adjudicator, guest teacher and chamber music coach at, among others, the Juilliard School, Mannes College, Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music and Columbia University, in addition to her private teaching, and In the summer she is on the faculty of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East at Colgate University. She also teaches courses for adult music lovers through the University of Denver. She is the founder and Music Director of Intimate Voices, a chamber music series with community outreach in New York City, now in its 16th season. 

Matthew Dane (viola) enjoys a varied musical career as both a performer and teacher. He serves as Principal Violist of Opera Colorado and is a member of both ROCO (River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston) and the Boulder Piano Quartet. Matt has appeared as soloist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, ROCO, Ars Nova Singers, and the St. Martin's Chamber Choir among other, and his solo and chamber performances have been featured on NPR's Performance Today, BBC's Channel 3, and the meditation website The Well. A dedicated teacher, he was tenured faculty at the University of Oklahoma; he now teaches at the University of Northern Colorado, directs the chamber music program for the Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra, and actively maintains a private studio working with committed students from middle school to adults. During the summer he teaches at Greenwood Music Camp in Massachusetts as well as his own Boulder Violist Session.

Seoyoen Min (cello) has served as Principal Cello of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since the 2019-2020 season. A native of South Korea and a graduate of Seoul National University, she has won first prize in the Strad Music, Music Association of Korea, and Segye Times competitions, among others. She received her M.Mus.degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, studying with Hans Jørgen Jensen, and made her debut in 2016 in the Young Artist of Youngsan Debut Concert Series. She is an active soloist in both the United States and South Korea, and her chamber music activities have included collaborations with cellist Lynn Harrell and violinist Kyung Sun Lee. In addition to her position with the Colorado Symphony, she is active locally both as chamber musician and teacher, and she has served as guest faculty at a variety of music institutions, including recently teaching a masterclass at the University of Wyoming. During her summers, she performs with South Eastern Young Artists in Georgia as a guest artist, Grand Teton Music Festival as Principal Cello, and the “Going Home Project” Orchestra as Assistant Principal.