Musicians for Your Special Day

Perfect Music for Weddings presents the most accomplished string players and accompanists in Los Angeles. They are graduates of some of the finest music conservatories in the country and they love to perform weddings!

Read more about our fantastic musicians below:

Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy, Artistic Director

Violin/Mandolin/Fiddle

Chris is a graduate of New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He has played professionally since 1993. He has studied classical violin with Peter Kaman of the Seattle Symphony, jazz violin with Matt Glaser and Julie Liberman, and Indian violin with L. Shankar. He is a composer and session musician, has eight solo albums of original music exploring jazz, bluegrass, blues, and ethnic violin music. In 2002 Chris started The Wine and Roses Wedding Band and has performed hundreds of successful weddings with that ensemble.

Adrienne Woods

Adrienne Woods grew up in a musical family in a small southern town Florence, South Carolina. She started playing the cello at age four, and was constantly surrounded by classical music. She uprooted herself after attending the University of South Carolina to hone her craft in Los Angeles.

Since being in Los Angeles, Adrienne has played studio work, orchestral works, television shows, and toured with many star artists. She has played on the Tonight show, with Shaggy, Faith Evans, Frankie J, Clay Aiken, Josh Groban, and Michael Buble. She has also been on the American Music Awards with Josh Groban, American Idol with Reuben, BET Awards with The Game, and recorded several music videos including Josh Groban, Kanye West, Rod Stewart. She filmed the Micheal Buble live DVD concert at the Wiltern theater. She also played with Kanye West, on an MTV show, his live tour dates, the Grammys in Los Angeles, Touch the Sky video, and the Ellen Show and his current projects. On American Idol the last four seasons she performed alongside the contestants in the show’s house band. She also played with 30 Seconds to Mars live at the Avalon and on the Late late show with Matt Goss. She just finished a tour of the US and Canada with the popular band the Jonas Brothers. She also performed the AMAs with Pink an the CNN tribute to heros with Christina Aguilera. Most recently she played the Grammys and Dancing with the Stars with Adele. She continues to play with many artists while developing her own music writing and performances as well.

Edgar Sandoval

Edgar Sandoval received his Bachelors of Music from California State University Northridge and has been studying the violin since age 11. His most influencial teachers are Anita Thomason (Culver City), North Wood (Pasadena), Ludmila Adzhemova (West Hollywood), Barry Socher (Beverly Hills), Mary Kim (Northridge), Michael Ferril (Northridge) and Assa Drori (Hollywood). A native of Los Angeles, Edgar has been fortunate to get immediate attention from local orchestral and recording contractors after only 2 years of playing the violin. Alongside his gigging experience he has been featured on Disney’s 2002 reality television show “Totally in Tune” expressing the lives of students in a high school orchestra at a premiere music academy. Edgar’s orchestral experience includes: The American Youth Symphony with Kent Nagano conducting at Royce Hall (May 2005), Debut Orchestra with John Williams conducting at the Beverly Hilton (October 2004), Debut Orchestra with Michael Tilson-Thomas at Walt Disney Hall (January 2005), Pasadena “Pops” Orchestra, Santa Monica Symphony, Torrance Symphony at the Armstrong Theater, Southeast Symphony, Golden State Pops Orchestra at the Warner Grand Theater, Riverside County Philharmonic, San Bernardino Symphony at the Redlands Bowl, and tours with MESTO (Multi-Ethnic Star Orchestra). Edgar is an acclaimed chamber musician as well a composer for film and serious works. His most recent movie score credits include “Amercian Crude” with Rob Schneider and “The Book of Tomorrow.”

Matthew Witmer

Born in Ft. Lauderdale, and a Philadelphia native, Matthew graduated from the Boston Conservatory with a bachelor’s of music in viola performance, and began his master’s studies at the New England Conservatory. Matthew studied with Patricia McCarty and Ed Gazouleas of the Boston Symphony.

Relocated to Los Angeles in 2001, he has studied with Dale Hikawa Silverman, and currently studies wtih Jerry Epstein of the LA Philharmonic and Ray Tischer. Matthew is a member of the Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra, which has been invited to the New Orleans Jazz Festival and Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. Other orchestras he has played with include: the Wild Ginger Philharmonic, Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra, Desert Symphony, AYS and Debut Orchestras. Matthew also attended the Henry Mancini Institute in 2005.

He has performed at such venues as: Boston Symphony Hall, NEC’s Jordan Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Zipper Hall, UCLA Royce and Schoenberg Halls, USC’s Bovard Auditorium, Skirball Cultural Center, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas House of Blues, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, and California Plaza.

He has shared the stage with such names as Tony Danza, Harrison Ford, Isaac Stern, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham, John Novacek, and singers from the LA Opera. He has also played with names from the rock, hip-hop and jazz worlds including: Holly Palmer, Lili Haydn, Guru, John Tesh, and Diane Schurr.

Matthew has worked with such distinguished conductors as John Williams, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Silverstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Alf Clausen, Kent Nagano, Doc Severinsen, Ronald Feldman, Joana Carneiro, and Frank Fetta. Matthew has also been featured in music videos and on film trailers.

Peter Kibbe

Cellist Peter Kibbe has lived his entire life in Los Angeles. He has studied the cello since age 8, taking private lessons from some of the most respected cellists in the country. In addition to his private training, Peter has been an active member and valued cellist of many local symphony orchestras and chamber groups, including the American Youth Symphony, which recently debuted at Carnegie Hall, and the Young Musicians’ Foundation Debut Orchestra, both highly respected and both groups with which he currently plays.

A regular attendee of the Gold Coast Chamber Music Festival in Calabassas, CA, Peter was picked as this year’s highly esteemed Emerging Artist, a position that includes performance with the faculty of the program and teaching responsibilities in next year’s week-long session.

Peter is currently furthering his musical studies by taking lessons, teaching lessons, playing symphonic works and playing chamber music. He is involved in pop bands, jazz combos, rock groups, awards shows, film scores and original compositions. Peter is a fan of science fiction literature and of tetris and can cook a really mean soufflé.

Tom Corbett

After years of earning respect from peers and audiences for playing behind better-known artists, noted mandolinist/guitarist Tom Corbett stepped into the spotlight as bandleader and songwriter with his warmly received 2001 solo album Upstairs at Charlie’s. Since then, while remaining a popular sideman, he’s become a frequent presence as frontman of his own well-regarded trio on the coffeehouse, listening room and house concert circuits. Now, with his second album, Cloudless Blue Sky, he’s further establishing himself as one of the most versatile acoustic artists on the West Coast Americana scene.

Benedikt Brydern

Benedikt Brydern is an award-winning composer and performer. His scores have been featured in film, television and on the concert stage in the United Sates and internationally. From the Miramax documentary “Rhyme & Reason” to independent films like “Dunsmore,” directed by Academy Nominee Peter Spirer, from Jon Voight’s children tale “The Tin Soldier” to the mysterious “Outpatient” (starring Justin Kirk), whether using traditional orchestral or electronic techniques. He contributed music to USA’s mini-series “Spartacus” and worked on blockbusters like “Entrapment” and “Urban Legend” with composer Christopher Young.

Having been a violin child protégé since age 6 he now holds a masters degree in performance and performs regularly with local symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles. He has concertized and recorded with Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Etta James, Sinead O’Connor, and many others.

He specializes in old time jazz and swing and performs on a historic 1910 Stroh-violin, introducing music from the 1910s, 20s and 30s to new audiences. He also pays tribute to the genuine music of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt. Performances include shows with folk legend Jim Kweskin and British hit-singer Ian Whitcomb. His love for Argentinean tango manifested in engagements with Dino Durand, Coco Trivisonno, Esther Segovia, Jose Luis “Pepe” Motta for various tango shows in the Los Angeles area.

As an arranger, orchestrator and producer he has worked with John O’Hurley (“Seinfeld,” “Dancing With The Stars”), violin stylist David Wilson, electric cellist Marston and many others.

Alan Busteed

Alan Busteed studied violin at the Manhattan School of Music with the emminent Raphael Bronstein. He was professor at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1994 until 2001. Having performed as a violinist with the Pacific Symphony, as guest principal violist for the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, he has also served as visiting concertmaster for the Orquesta de Baja California in Mexico. He is an artist faculty member at the Orange County High School of the Arts and violinist for the Los Angeles based Trio Del Mar, a piano trio. His jazz study at UMASS Amherst was with Yusef Lateef and Billy Taylor and he currently performs with the Odyssey Tango Trio.

Hope Easton

Hope Easton — Cleveland Institute of Music (preparatory college); New England Conservatory (B.M.); Fulbright Scholar (U.K.), Royal Northern College of Music). Currently performing and recording in Los Angeles. Working with bands such as Bitter:sweet, Al Stewart and many others. Cellist, Singer, Songwriter, Teacher.

Emily Moore

Emily Moore, originally from San Diego, has been playing violin for 12 years. She started violin lessons as a four-year-old, studying classical music during the school year and learning fiddle tunes over the summer. Three years later, Emily discovered Valley of the Moon Fiddle School in California and has since continued to explore traditional fiddle, rock, and groove-based music using her classical technique as an increasingly solid foundation.

Although an avid fiddle player, Emily continued to study classical music and was admitted into the Thornton School of Music at USC as a Violin Performance major in 2004. She has performance experience with a number of groups including the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra, the San Diego City Ballet performing “The Nutcracker” and “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” and opening for the Chiara String Quartet as a member of the California Institute of Music String Quartet.

Jason Myers

A native of New Jersey, Jason Myers has played music since early childhood. In his teens he switched over from piano and percussion to playing guitar as his main instrument. After studying with guitarist John Carlini (of the David Grisman band), he went to CalArts to earn a BA in music. A versitile player, he has found himself performing everything from jazz & popular music (Al McKibbon, “Tootie” Heath, Al Martino, Dave Carpenter, et al), zydeco (Kenny Menard), african highlife (Jimmy Fotso), hawaiian (King Kukulele), to funk and soul (the Electones). Myers also plays solo acoustic guitar and has an eclectic array of arrangements for the instrument, including early ragtime, eastern european folk, and Beatles tunes. He also plays the ukulele, banjo, lap steel guitar, and the cuatro. Teaching music is also a specialty, and he can be found at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music teaching guitar and ukulele.

Josh Jones

Josh Jones plays the acoustic upright bass as well as the electric bass guitar. Originally from North Hollywood, California, Josh has lived and performed all over southern California, including Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura counties. He is currently living in the city of Ventura. He studied jazz at San Diego State University and the California Institute of the Arts. Over the last fifteen years he has worked professionally with many different groups, playing a wide variety of musical styles including jazz, rock, blues, folk, and country. Currently he can be seen playing regularly with violinist Chris Murphy as well as country rock band 29 Mules.

Erik Kertes

Erik Kertes is a freelance bass player in LA, upright and electric bass all styles. He also likes to play other instruments and write songs. Erik is a graduate of the Thornton School Of Music of USC, where he studied jazz with John Clayton. Erik has recorded and toured with jazz singer Sara Gazarek, pop singer Josh Kelly and canadian crooner Michael Buble.

Ryan Feves

Ryan Feves was born and raised in Pendleton, Oregon. He began playing the violin when he was 3 years old, but later switched to upright and electric bass. It was in Portland, Oregon, during its era of jazz luminaries Red Mitchell, Leroy Vinnegar, and Andrew Hill, that Ryan first discovered Jazz and improvisational music. In 1995 Ryan moved to Los Angeles to attend California Institute of the Arts and studying jazz bass performance under the direction of Charlie Haden. Since Graduating from CalArts in 2000 with a B.F.A. in music performance, Ryan has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe while remaining in high demand for his work as a producer, musician, educator, and music engineering and technology consultant. Some of his most recent work includes appearances on recent albums by Eleni Mandell, Money Mark, and Joe Firstman. Mr. Feves is also a regular member of the house band on the NBC late night program “Last Call with Carson Daly.”

Donald James Bonebrake

Donald James Bonebrake (yes, that is his real name) grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. He began drumming at the age of 12 and studied classical and traditional music while playing in various rock n roll bands. DJ entered the Los Angeles underground music scene in the mid-1970’s when Charlotte Caffey and Joe Ramirez saw his band, Rocktopus, at Immaculate Heart College. They asked him to join their group, The Eyes, and it wasn’t long before members of X caught The Eyes playing at the Masque and asked DJ to be X’s drummer. After several years of touring and recording X took a brief hiatus and DJ began earnestly building his reputation as a talented and dependable live performance and session musician, playing drums, percussion, and mallet instruments with a variety of musicians and music groups. Today, in addition to playing drums, DJ is gaining a reputation as a talented vibraphonist, playing in both jazz and rock and roll settings.