Join mezzo-soprano Taryn Plater, baritone Matthew Kim, and pianist Derek Stoll for an inventive program marrying the jazz and classical worlds. Enjoy an intimate open-air concert while supporting an up-and-coming local opera company. All proceeds will go towards Opera Unbound's 2025–2026 programming.
Saturday July 19, 2025
West Vancouver
6:30PM Light refreshments
7:00PM Music begins
Matthew Kim
Baritone
Matthew is a lyric baritone and financial operations analyst. Following two degrees in opera performance at the University of British Columbia, he completed several professional contracts throughout Canada and now works with a San Francisco-based financial technology startup. Matthew enjoys singing contemporary works and telling new stories to current audiences. He had the unique opportunity to sing the roles of Edmund Bertram and William Dale in Mansfield Park and Silent Night – both composed in the last decade. In 2021, he originated the titular role of Alfred in Vancouver composer Anthony Knight’s premiere of Oh, Alfred!. Matthew also has a strong fondness for classical and romantic opera and German lieder.
Taryn Plater
Mezzo-soprano
Taryn Plater is a versatile singer and creator, recognized for her “dramatic and vocal thrust” (Opera Canada). Driven by an interest in opera’s relationship to different genres and mediums, her portfolio focuses on Ukrainian art song, new works, and the intersection of jazz and classical music. As a founding member of Opera Unbound, Taryn pursues projects that open new avenues for artistic collaboration. She was an emerging artist with Manitoba Opera’s 2024 DEAP program and a 2021-2022 RBC Artist Fellow with the Association for Opera in Canada. Taryn created the digital artist statement First Steps through Against the Grain’s 2021 National Opera Intensive, and continues to explore non-traditional opera creation with the development of her original multi-media performance piece, Pamyatayesh.
Derek Stoll
Piano
Derek Stoll obtained a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the University of Calgary. He has composed works for concert band, jazz band, small ensembles and solo instruments. He studied jazz and brass performance at the Banff Centre. He was commissioned to compose and arrange for the Canadian Brass, trumpet virtuoso Jens Lindemann, and the Calgary Stampede Grandstand show. He has been teaching jazz piano at Mount Royal University in Calgary since 2001, and has taught jazz theory at the University of Calgary. He has performed solo and with numerous ensembles backing up world-class singers and instrumentalists.
