The Topanga Symphony, Santa Monica Mountain’s only community orchestra, announces a free concert performance on November 22, 2026, at 3:00P.M. at the Topanga Community Center. Jerome Kessler, as Music Director and Conductor will feature soloists Rebecca Beato, violin, and Yuri Santos, viola, performing Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The program will also include Symphony #4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms.
A native of Salvador, Brazil, violist Yuri Santos is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Colburn School, studying with Prof. Tatjana Masurenko. He is a first-prize winner of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn String Quartet Competition, Macauley Chamber Music Competition, and South Florida Young Artist Solo Competition, and has received the Music Society of Coral Lakes and Edward H. Benenson awards.
Rebecca Beato is currently in her third year of her undergraduate violin studies with Robert Lipsett at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, California. She previously studied with Viktor Basis at the Special Music School for 10 years and with Li Lin at the Juilliard school for a year. Rebecca is a top prize winner of the Sphinx and Aspen Competitions as well as a Semi-Finalist in the 10th Louis Spohr International Music Competition.
