Benefit Recital and Academy Exposition

Name: Benefit Recital and Academy Exposition
Start: 2025-09-20T18:00:00-07:00
Location: St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto

Schedule

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto | Palo Alto, CA

🎵 Benefit Recital & Exposition — Free Music Academy of Silicon Valley 🎵
Date: September 20th | Time: 6:00 PM
Location: St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Join us for an evening of beautiful music featuring Matthew Origel, founder and professional flutist, performing works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bizet, and more. He will be joined by pianist Hiroko Mizuno.
Matthew will also share a brief presentation about our academy, our mission, and our plans for the future.
Reception to follow with wine and cupcakes — mingle, celebrate music, and support young talented musicians in Silicon Valley!
About Matthew:
Matthew Origel, born in 2001, began playing the flute twelve years ago with Jill Heinke Moen in Silicon Valley, California. From a young age, Matthew upheld high standards for his success. He held principal flute positions in all his high school ensembles, in regional and all-state honor bands/orchestras, and also with the San Jose Youth Symphony Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he had the honor of performing in the renowned Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2019.
Continuing his music education after high school, Matthew completed his Bachelor’s of Music in Flute Performance in 2023 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Herb Alpert School of Music under the tutelage of Denis Bouriakov, acclaimed international flute soloist and principal flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. During his time at UCLA, Matt held Principal positions in all of his school’s ensembles, premiered pieces composed by fellow UCLA peers as well as composers of the greater Los Angeles area, and in his second year, he won First Prize in the San Diego Flute Guild Collegiate Competition, competing against flutists from top music schools across the nation. In 2022, he spent two months on the East Coast of the United States at the Brevard Music Institute, where he played in the college division orchestra and also successfully auditioned onto the substitute flute list for the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida during their regional audition tour.
After completing his Bachelor’s studies, Matthew currently lives in Madrid, Spain, pursuing his Master’s of Music in Flute Performance at one of Europe’s most prestigious music institutions, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (Queen Sofía School of Music), under the instruction of legendary flutist and pedagogue Jacques Zoon, previous Principal Flutist of the Royal Concertgabow Orchestra in Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. While in his Master’s program so far, Matthew has had the immense honor of playing in orchestra with world-class soloists Maria Dueñas, Juan Diego Flores, and Lang Lang. In the summer of 2024, Matthew performed throughout Germany as a member of one of the most prestigious summer orchestral academies, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.