Yu & I concert set for Saturday at St. John’s Anglican Parish to feature violin, guitar music

QUINCY — Movie music. Haunting gypsy songs. Popular refrains. 

Whatever is beautiful and lends itself to a soaring violin and intricate guitar will be played by the Yu & I duo last 7:30 p.m. Saturday at St. John’s Anglican Parish, 701 Hampshire. 

Presented by the Quincy Civic Music Association, Yu & I enchant audiences with their charm, virtuosity, skill and beauty.

Guitar and violin have a rich tradition as folk instruments. The program Yu & I will play, called “A Journey,” features music with popular influences showing the versatility of a violin and a guitar playing together, ranging from Argentine tangos to Spanish and German dances, mountain songs, Scottish airs to haunting cinema music 

Violinist YuEun Kim and guitarist Ines Thome captivate audiences with their charisma and virtuosity as they present arrangements ranging from traditional to boundary breaking.  These musicians have won multiple competitions and played at prestigious international music festivals.  Both are experienced chamber musicians who have performed in concert venues around the world.

YuEun Kim, a violinist from Seoul, Korea, has won top prizes at the Korean Times Music Competition, Kumho Art Hall Recital Series Competition, Sungjung Competition, Music Education News Concours, and the Seoul High Schools Chamber Music Competition. She received second prize at Joong Ang Music Concours in 2010 and was featured as a soloist with the SNU Philharmonic Orchestra (Seoul) in 2009, as well as the Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra in 2012. She has played around the world, including a performance at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Ines Thomé, a German-born guitarist, performs internationally as a solo and chamber musician. She plays electric guitar, lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, banjo and mandolin.  Her most recent solo program features music by exiled composers who came to Southern California during World War II to escape the Nazi regime. She took first prize at the International Guitar Competition in Walnut Creek, Calif., and the guitar competition of the American Guitar Society in 2015. Her passion for early music was honored with a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Johann Sebastian Bach at the International Guitar Competition in Erwitte, Germany.

​Saturday’s performance is supported by the Knapheide Manufacturing Company. Children age 18 and under are admitted free. Tickets are $15. They can be bought at the door, Hy-Vee and Country Market stores or quincycivicmusic.org.