Valentine's Classical Concert Mixer

Duo Lune d’Olive, created in January 2023 in residence at Cité internationale des Arts, brings together Olivia Kim and Louna Dekker Vargas. The duo has been featured in Salle Cortot and Cité internationale des Arts, and recently recorded a music video with Cinesthesia Productions. The two international artists have made Paris their home, and infuse the quintessential flute/harp sound world with a fresh, modern touch.

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Louna Dekker Vargas is a Franco-American flutist. Daughter of Claudia Vargas, a Colombian painter, and Reinier Dekker, a Dutch craftsman, Louna was immersed in an artistic and multicultural universe from an early age.

An expressive flutist with a fondness for the stage, she is at home in several musical fields, from experimental jazz in New York (the group Atlantic Extraction, whose two albums produced by Out of Your Head Records were met by acclaim in the press in the U.S. and France), the theatrical world of Broadway (Wicked 2017- 2020), and, above all, chamber music with her various ensembles (Peabody Conservatory YADS Prize winners, guest artists at numerous festivals, including the Sitka Centennial Hall Chamber Music Festival, El Paso Pro Musica festival, Fox Fine Arts Hall, quarter-finalist at the Fischoff International Competition… )

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Olivia Kim is a Korean-American harpist.

She obtained her Master’s degree in harp performance/pedagogy from the Peabody Conservatory in 2017 with a full scholarship and has been awarded the Harold Randolph Prize upon graduation. After graduating from Peabody, she was recruited to teach at Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. During her time there, she has taught over 30 students, as well as given concerts in honor of the late King Rama IX.

Currently, she is pursuing a diploma of Concertiste at École Normale de Musique de Paris under the tutelage of Nicolas Tulliez as a full scholarship recipient.

She is an international prize-winning harpist, and has performed worldwide both as a soloist and collaboratively with renowned orchestras, and chamber musicians.

She was a featured soloist with the League of Strings on their China tour and was invited to present a concert at the World Harp Congress in Hong Kong. Her orchestral engagements have included performances with L’orchestre Philharmonique of Radio France, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, and Concert Artists of Baltimore. She has also worked with celebrated conductors including Marin Alsop, John Adams, and Mikko Franck.