Enjoy beautiful music inspired by France with a touch of Poland. Immerse yourself in the elegance and colors of the harp and piano performed by outstanding harpist Amy Ahn and inspiring pianist Louise Costigan-Kerns.

Experience the collaboration and versatility of these two instrumentalists, who will perform both as soloists and together. The program will include music by Poulenc, Ravel, Chopin, Henriette Renié and more. Please join us for this enchanting recital!

The concert is from 1:00–2:00 PM. Coffee and snacks will be served in the lobby after the concert.

Musicians:
Pianist Louise Costigan-Kerns has performed internationally as a concert pianist and collaborative pianist. Her concerts have been reviewed as "inspiring and technically amazing performances." And "the orchestra played beautifully last night, in a joyful concert that included the magical contribution of Louise Costigan-Kerns."

Ms. Costigan-Kerns began studying the piano at age three with her mother, Beatrice Costigan, in Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where she received her bachelor and Master of Music degrees Pi Kappa Lambda. She was on the faculty
of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and founding director of the New England Conservatory Extension Division Opera Studio. Over the years she was a member of the opera department at Boston University, on the piano faculty at Phillips Exeter Academy and Artist in Residence at Brandeis University.

Ms. Costigan Kerns was recently awarded the honor of being named a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). Her students are consistent winners in Bay Area, regional and national competitions in both piano and voice. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Costigan-Kerns has been a member of the piano faculty in the Stanford University Department of Music from 2021 to 2025 and a voice/opera coach and recital pianist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 2018 to 2023. Ms. Costigan-Kerns is active as a recital pianist, opera coach and accompanist for singers and instrumentalists. Her Bay Area performances with orchestra include performances with the
Redwood Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, Winchester Orchestra and the New Millenniun Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Costigan-Kerns' first solo piano CD, My Favorite Performances, was released in 2004. Piano With Passion was released in 2007 and Into the Light, was released in 2011. All are available on iTunes/Apple Music and cdbaby.com. She can be seen performing Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Mozart, Shostakovich and Harrison on YouTube. You can stream her music and follow her on Spotify.

Harpist Amy Ahn is principal harpist of the Stockton Symphony and a nationally acclaimed harp soloist whose career spans a wide range of musical genres and contexts. As a distinguished ensemble musician, she has collaborated with San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Stanford Jazz, among several orchestras in the West Coast. In 2023, Amy won third prize in the American Harp Society’s National Competition and a top prize in the Busan Maru International Music Festival Concerto Competition.

Amy has performed internationally at venues including Jordan Hall, National Sawdust, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kraków Philharmonic Hall, Musikverein, Smetana Hall, Geoam Art Hall and Kumho Art Hall. A passionate chamber musician and new music advocate, she has performed the premieres of works by Samuel Adams, Elliott Carter, Hiroya Miura, Sid Richardson, Justin Weiss and Chen Yi. As a recording artist, Amy has produced her own original music and can also be heard on records by Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun, Grammy Award-winning producer M-Phazes, John Wineglass, Spellling, among many other projects. Known for her artistic versatility, she has performed with artists such as Doe Paoro, Little Kruta, Ken Peplowski, Sarah Brightman and Thaddeus Hogarth.

Amy holds a graduate performance diploma from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Dr. June Han. She also holds a master’s degree from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she studied with Felice Pomeranz and Ina Zdorovetchi, and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA, where she studied with Lou Anne Neill. A dedicated teaching artist, Amy maintains her own private harp studio. As an advocate for equitable access to harp education, she has also taught with programs such as Baltimore Symphony’s OrchKids and Los Angeles Philharmonic’s The Harp In Our Public Schools.

Senior Programs are made possible in part by generous contributions from the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund, the John R. Schwabacher Family, as well as many other individual donors. We are grateful for their generous support.​