FMMC Ingleside Chamber Series
Free
- Steven Schwarz, piano
- Romain-Olivier Gray, cello
- Robert Kraig, piano
- Gwyn Jones, flute
- Cynthia Rugolo, piccolo
- Hon-Cheong Chan, piano
Franz Schubert — Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D. 821
Daniel Dorff — Perfect Storm
About Steven Schwarz, piano
About Romain-Olivier Gray, cello
Romain-Olivier Gray started playing cello in 2009, when he was 6. In 2015, he began his studies with David Hardy. He plays in diverse orchestras and chamber music ensembles and he loves being a part of the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program.
Romain-Olivier has been a first prize winner in several competitions such as the 2019 Richmond Symphony Student Concerto Competition, the 2018 NSO Summer Music Institute Competition and the 2018 Feder Memorial String Competition. Romain-Olivier performs as a soloist for various events as well as with orchestras such as the Old Bridge Chamber Orchestra, the NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra, the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra and the Tidewater Intergenerational Orchestra.
About Robert Kraig, piano
About Hon-Cheong Chan, piano
Hon-Cheong Chan began playing piano at age 7, and by his teenage years he had earned several top competition prizes in his native Malaysia. He came to the United States in the early 1990s to study piano performance at the University of Montana. While there, Mr. Chan also served as a pianist with the Missoula Symphony and the University of Montana Orchestra. Mr. Chan studied piano with teachers Steven Hesla, Dennis Alexander, and Edvinas Minkstimas, and took master class with pianists Stephen Hough, Janina Fialkowska, Angela Chang, and Edna Golansky.
In recent years, Mr. Chan has appeared in public and private concerts at various venues in the Metropolitan D.C. area including the Sumner School Museum, the National Press Club, Embassy of France, Phillips Collections for private functions. In May 2008/2009, Mr. Chan was invited to perform solo piano music featuring the works of Tan Dun, Joe Hisaishi, Lin Hai and Takahashi Yuji at Arnold and Porter LLP in Washington D.C. celebrating the Asian Pacific Heritage Month.