About

Established 🗓️ August 2025, our name, “Gratia,” is latin for Grace. Although you can normally find most of us playing heavenly hymns on Sundays at Grace Community Church (+ other ⛪️ events), now we’re spreading our wings 🪽as we desire to continue to grow musically. We’d also like to share our 🎵 gifts and connect with audiences through music!

Our backgrounds are varied - 3 of us just started grad school in 8/2025 - John @ UCLA law, Debbie @ APU for artist diploma and Amber @ CSU DH for music education (full-ride). The 3 others have 40+ hour/week day jobs - Cecille a civil servant, Matt a medical professional, and Kazuki works at church - but we all share a true passion for music.

⭐️ If you’re reading this, please come to our concert. We will pour our hearts 💗into it and try our very best. We’d love it if you could make it!

Sincerely,
Gratia String Sextet
Kazuki, Amber (violins); Debbie, Cecille (violas); Matt, John (cellos)

Instagram: gratia_sextet

Music

Have you ever heard of a string sextet? Quartets and trios are popular, but a sextet? Our group, a string sextet, is a little unusual - not too small, but not too big, but definitely unique! We are made up of 6 strings! We consist of 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos. 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻

Some of the most amazingly beautiful chamber pieces ever written are for string sextet! To start, for our first program we will be performing the beautiful, intricate and soaring Brahms String Sextet in G which is absolutely gorgeous! Next, we will move on to the boisterously energetic Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky. These pieces are challenging, but it’s been so worth the effort preparing the music and bringing the notes to life. We are enjoying the entire music making process of learning these intricate works by Mr. Brahms and Mr. Tchaikovsky. 🔥

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