SCHWARZ, JULIAN Julian Schwarz, cello, made his Music of Remembrance début in 2005 as the first David Tonkonogui Memorial Award Winner, playing his father’s composition, In Memoriam. A Seattle native, he has received three Interlochen Fine Arts awards, performed with the Seattle Symphony, and conducted Tchaikovsky’s Coronation March with the Symphony. A student of David Tonkonogui (1958-2003) for seven years, he started his musical training with the piano at age five, the cello at six. He performed for this recording at the age of fifteen.
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