Thursday, September 11 | 6:00PM
Join the Festival Napa Valley family for a festive magnum party celebrating Robin and Michelle Baggett and their many contributions to the vitality of Napa Valley. Their leadership and generosity have enriched the Festival and the broader community in countless ways and this special evening is a tribute to their remarkable impact. Festival Napa Valley’s esteemed Board of Directors will mark the occasion in grand fashion, bringing magnums of exceptional vintages to toast Robin for his years of service as Chairman of the Board, and Michelle for her many contributions to the Festival and the Napa Valley community.
Claire and incoming Festival Chairman Steven Stull invite you to their spectacular Mediterranean-style home for this special celebration. Perched at 1,200 feet and surrounded by 40 acres, it offers unparalleled panoramic views from St. Helena to San Francisco. Completing the experience is a private performance merging music and movement by Grammy Award-winning cellist Jonah Kim and his wife, the celebrated San Francisco Ballet soloist Julia Rowe.
It's the perfect way to celebrate an extraordinary couple and to toast their enduring contributions to the Festival and the Napa Valley.
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Performers
Jonah Kim is an artist of great charisma and originality. His beauty of tone is immediately distinguishable by its signature sweetness. Kim invites the listener in with “the cosy warmth of a well-loved cashmere sweater," (Gramophone) then “dives into the music with courage underpinned by formidable technical prowess, with which he achieves a dazzling performance.” (All About the Arts)
Ballerina Julia Rowe is a soloist with the San Francisco Ballet, where she has danced for 12 years. She is also an inaugural fellow for the company’s Raising Leaders program. Formerly a soloist with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Rowe trained at the San Francisco Ballet School and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet.