$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
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String centered first class original music, blending inventive arrangements with diverse musical traditions
A collective of some of the top musicians in the Bay Area - including Grammy®-award-winners and nominees - Vitamin Em brings a wealth of experience, creativity and fearless improvisation to each performance. Members are steeped in an abundance of musical traditions, from jazz, blues and rock to Funk, fiddle and classical, and present a harmonious blend of first-class original music and inventive arrangements for each concert. All delivered with fun-loving spontaneity and infectious enthusiasm.
Artist Profiles
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Evan Price is steadily gaining recognition as one of the world's most confident voices in extra-classical string playing. A native of Detroit, MI, his musical background includes some earnest dues-paying in a variety of genres. From square dance bands to string quartets, from jamming with blues bands to busking in Greektown, Evan's youthful pursuits all informed his violin-playing and left him with a deep love of chamber music in all forms. As a young competitive fiddler he won his share of awards, having been named the U.S. Scottish Fiddling Champion, the Kentucky State Fiddle Champion, Canadian Junior Fiddle Champion, and Canadian Novelty Fiddling Champion. He also performed with some of the masters of fiddle lore—Stephane Grappelli, Johnny Frigo, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Johnny Gimble, Buddy Spicher, and Vassar Clements—as well as a diverse array of pop icons from Stevie Wonder and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant to comedian, Steven Wright.
Evan's college career included stints at both The Cleveland Institute of Music and at Berklee College of Music, and has himself served as a member of the music faculty at Wellesley College, The California Jazz Conservatory, and The University of California, Berkeley.
Evan is a ten-year veteran of the world-renowned, paradigm-shifting jazz ensemble, the Turtle Island Quartet. During his tenure in Turtle Island, Evan gave over five hundred performances in concert venues from Latvia to Australia and had the opportunity to collaborate with many musical luminaries, such as Cuban clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, The Ying Quartet, pianists Dr. Billy Taylor and Kenny Barron, and classical guitarists, Sergio and Odair Assad. He recorded five CD's with Turtle Island, two of which—"Four + 4" and “A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane”—received GRAMMY® awards in 2006 and 2008 in the Classical Crossover category.
Since 1998, Evan has been proud to call himself a member of The Hot Club of San Francisco, perhaps the most venerable gypsy jazz band in the US. During his tenure, the group has thrilled audiences from Iceland to Mexico and across the United States, and has released seven CD's which feature Evan on violin.
An accomplished composer, Evan has contributed compositions and arrangements to the repertoires of HCSF, Turtle Island Quartet, Quartet San Francisco, Irish fiddler Liz Carroll, San Francisco Girls' Chorus, River Oaks String Quartet, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Chanticleer, and theInternational Space Orchestra, for which he also serves as musical director. He lives in Mill Valley, CA, with his wife and daughter.
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Dmitri Yevstifeev is a San Francisco based Violist, Violinist and freelance musician. Dmitri frequently performs chamber and orchestral music with a variety of Bay Area ensembles including the Wave Chamber Music Collective, Benicia Chamber Players, San José Chamber Orchestra, and as a substitute violist for the San Francisco Opera and Ballet, Santa Rosa Symphony, and Opera San Jose, among others. Dmitri was recently featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live and at the New Orleans Jazz Festival 2025 performing with the pop artist Laufey. Dmitri has also been involved in organizing events for the Northern California Viola Society, including running the International Viola Composition Competition 2024-2026 and organizing and performing in ViolaMania 6 this past November. Dmitri studied Viola Performance under Paul Coletti at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he also studied chamber music under members of the Tokyo Quartet and Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet. Dmitri frequently plays in a variety of genres including traditional American/Irish/Persian folk music, gypsy jazz, and pop. In addition to viola, Dmitri plays the violin(fiddle), guitar, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, and banjo. In his free time Dmitri enjoys exploring creativity as a hobby through woodworking (instrument and bow making), lapidary arts (stone and gem carving), and musical composition.
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Violist and composer Emily Onderdonk, who hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, began her college years as a composition major, but soon put composition aside to focus on her degrees in viola performance at Manhattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Since then she has enjoyed an eclectic career that includes performances with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Opera and Ballet, Opéra National de Lyon, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Quartet San Francisco, (with whom she was nominated for 2 Grammy awards), Tower of Power, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Hamilton, Leon Fleisher, Luciano Pavarotti, Smokey Robinson, Diana Krall and many others.
In 2016, she took up composing once again, recording and performing her music regularly with her band, Vitamin Em. Her pieces reflect eclectic musical influences: a Baroque snippet, an intricate funk rhythm, a taste of big band, 70’s soul and the dissonant harmonies of contemporary music can mix together in any one piece she writes, creating a distinctly unique composition, yet with familiar elements. Always at the heart of each are rhythm and groove.
In addition to leading Vitamin Em, Emily often records pop, movie, and video game soundtracks at Skywalker Ranch. She also arranges and composes for colleagues and chamber orchestras, most recently for the San José Chamber Orchestra who in 2025 performed The Many Colors of Her, a piece dedicated to SJCO founder and conductor Barbara Day Turner.
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Michael Graham studied at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, where he was a founding member of that institution’s first secret chamber music society, Skull and Bows. He has toured and recorded with Van Morrison, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg , and John Densmore of the Doors, and has appeared and performed on ABC’s Regis and Kelley and NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He is currently a member of the Oakland Symphony, and appears frequently with the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Midsummer Mozart Festival, and other ensembles throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Graham can be heard on New Century’s recently released albums “Live” and Together”, and on Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks Live from Hollywood Bowl.”
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Unpil Baek is a pianist, improviser, and composer whose musical voice flows freely across jazz, classical, global, sacred, and experimental traditions. Originally trained in classical piano, he discovered jazz during college, via Weather Report albums — a turning point that deepened his musical voice through improvisation.
While pursuing doctoral research in quantum computing at the University of California, Berkeley, he began playing in ensembles at the California Jazz Conservatory and UC Jazz, learning from mentors such as Glenn Richman and Marcos Silva. He also studied composition with professors Cindy Cox and Myra Melford to broaden his creative palette through experimental and collaborative work.
To Unpil, music is a way of connecting people across boundaries — a language that speaks through feeling, form, and presence. Whether performing, composing, or improvising, he treats music as an offering: honest, responsive, and shaped by both structure and spontaneity.
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Dash Goss-Post is an LA based drummer with a BA in Global Jazz Studies from UCLA where he studied with musicians such as Clayton Cameron, Arturo O’Farrill, and Hitomi Oba. He believes the power in playing drums and percussion comes from the ability to listen. It is important to Dash that he truly support whoever he’s playing with. This passion for listening has brought him collaborations with many singer/songwriters, performing and recording across LA and the SF Bay Area. He plays with many LA-based indie acts including Charlie Havenick, Flamango Bay, Katrina Wiessman, Dakota Dry and many more. In 2025 he toured with Charlie Havenick, opened for the New York based band Barrie, traveled to London to record an album with Flamango Bay, and started a duo jazz project with fellow UCLA jazz alum Henry Baskin. Dash is looking forward excited to keep playing and learning as his career continues!