Agnieszka Borzuchowski

FIRST VIOLIN

Agnieszka Borzuchowski, born in Warsaw, Poland, came to the states at age two and started playing violin at about age ten in the San Francisco Bay area. She quickly excelled and joined the Berkley Youth Orchestra, Young Peoples Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Oakland Youth Orchestra. During these years, she toured Italy, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Carnegie Hall. For many years she attended and was a solo competition winner at the Advanced Suzuki Workshop held at Stanford. Also, in her youth, she joined an orchestra in Poland and toured Poland and Germany. After finishing high school, she was accepted to the Bob Cole Music Conservatory at Cal State Long Beach. She has studied with Robin Reed, Julia Athayde, Robin Sharp, Hegena Boulejn, and Andrea Byers.

Agnieszka has been a member of La Mirada Symphony for about six years and recently started playing with Huntington Beach Symphony. She is the co-founder, conductor, and concertmaster of the Long Beach Chamber Music Group, a chamber music ensemble she started six years ago for adult musicians who want to have fun playing music in a non-competitive environment. She also founded the Plazza String Quartet, which often plays weddings and other events. Her heart is definitely rooted in orchestra, but she does play music in other genres of music as well. She is a member of Vicious Kinids, a rock band in Long Beach, and also is a featured artist in many other albums and events and a regular soloist with the Long Beach Community Band. Agnieszka works as the Strings Instructor at a Waldorf-inspired school in Huntington Beach, Sycamore Creek Community Charter School, where she works with children from 4th–8th grade. She also runs her own private studio teaching violin, viola, and cello.

Chad Jackson

VIOLA

Chad Jackson is a graduate of Colburn where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in viola performance in 2003 under the guidance of Jan Karlin, Violist and music director of Southwest Chamber. 

Chad was a member of the LA Philharmonic High School Honor Orchestra, which performed on tour in the Sydney Opera House as well as Carnegie Hall. He was also in the American Youth Symphony Orchestra and principal violist at the Colburn performing arts school Orchestra de Camera.

Chris Hornung

DOUBLE BASS

Chris Hornung received his Bachelor of Music degree from Western Michigan University and his Master of Music degree from Michigan State University. An active double bassist, he is the principal bass of the Dana Point Symphony, Symphony Irvine, and Orchestra Collective of Orange County and was principal of the Orange County Symphony from 2008–2016. In the past, he performed with the Kalamazoo, Jackson, Lansing, Battle Creek and West Michigan Symphonies, Opera Tampa, and the California Chamber Orchestra. Chris is also active as a chamber musician and solo recitalist and has been featured as a soloist twice with the Orange County Symphony.

Chris is an adjunct faculty member at Concordia University Irvine, Chaffey College, and Coastline College. In the summers, he is a faculty member at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, where he teaches double bass and music history in addition to performing as principal bass of the Festival Orchestra.

Chris is also the owner of Zimmerman Publications, the integral part of any double bassist’s music library, providing complete orchestral parts for auditioning bassists, with suggested fingers and bowings.

László Mező

Cello

Born in Budapest, Hungary, László Mező gained national recognition as one of the top musicians of his generation when he won First Prize in the “Kertész Ottó Memorial Competition” at the young age of 18. Since then, he has won numerous other competitions which have brought him international recognition, including the Fourth Prize in the “Antonio Janigro Junior International Competition” in 1998, Second Prize in the “International Dávid Popper Competition for Young Cellists” in 2000, the Special Prize in the “International Dávid Popper Cello Competition” in 2004 and First Prize in the “Ima Hogg International Competition” in 2008. Mező has forged a career as a soloist, recitalist, master teacher, and chamber musician. He has performed extensively in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Always eager to pass on his knowledge, Mező has conducted master classes in Japan, Brazil, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, and the United States. 

Mező is currently an adjunct professor of cello at Chapman University and Saddleback College in California, and he was an assistant teacher at the University of Southern California between 2007 and 2008. 

As a soloist, Mező has performed with maestros Ádám Fischer, Thomas Wilkins, Grant Llewellyn, and Zsolt Hamar. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated in recitals with pianists Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Steven Vanhauwaert, Gábor Farkas, Márta Gulyás, Piotr Folkert and Balázs Szokolay, violinist Kristóf Baráti, cellist Philipp Muller and the Bartók Quartet. He has also played under the direction of Zubin Mehta and Kent Nagano as a member of the Bayerische Staatsorchester in Munich, Germany. 

Mező holds two master’s degrees from the Liszt Ferenc University of Music in Budapest and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He graduated from the class of Ralph Kirshbaum at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Mező has also participated in the master classes of Uzi Wiesel, Josef Podhoransky, Othmar Müller, Philippe Müller, Rainer Zipperling, Fenyves Lóránd, Wolfgang Boettcher and Aldo Parisot. 

Currently residing in Los Angeles, Mező is a sought-after soloist and an active studio musician in Hollywood. He has played in many film scores; some most updated blockbusters include Ice Age, Life of Pi, The Wolverine, and The Lone Ranger. Mező’s first CD recording of Dávid Popper’s works on the Hungaroton label includes several first-time recordings of the master’s cello works. He recently finished his second CD, Made in Paris, with romantic cello pieces from the 19th century, also featuring world premiere works by cellist-composer Daniel Van Goens and pieces from the Suite Populaire Espagnole by Manuel De Falla.

Agnieszka Borzuchowski

FIRST VIOLIN

Agnieszka Borzuchowski, born in Warsaw, Poland, came to the states at age two and started playing violin at about age ten in the San Francisco Bay area. She quickly excelled and joined the Berkley Youth Orchestra, Young Peoples Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Oakland Youth Orchestra. During these years, she toured Italy, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Carnegie Hall. For many years she attended and was a solo competition winner at the Advanced Suzuki Workshop held at Stanford. Also, in her youth, she joined an orchestra in Poland and toured Poland and Germany. After finishing high school, she was accepted to the Bob Cole Music Conservatory at Cal State Long Beach. She has studied with Robin Reed, Julia Athayde, Robin Sharp, Hegena Boulejn, and Andrea Byers.

Agnieszka has been a member of La Mirada Symphony for about six years and recently started playing with Huntington Beach Symphony. She is the co-founder, conductor, and concertmaster of the Long Beach Chamber Music Group, a chamber music ensemble she started six years ago for adult musicians who want to have fun playing music in a non-competitive environment. She also founded the Plazza String Quartet, which often plays weddings and other events. Her heart is definitely rooted in orchestra, but she does play music in other genres of music as well. She is a member of Vicious Kinids, a rock band in Long Beach, and also is a featured artist in many other albums and events and a regular soloist with the Long Beach Community Band. Agnieszka works as the Strings Instructor at a Waldorf-inspired school in Huntington Beach, Sycamore Creek Community Charter School, where she works with children from 4th–8th grade. She also runs her own private studio teaching violin, viola, and cello.

Chad Jackson

VIOLA

Chad Jackson is a graduate of Colburn where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in viola performance in 2003 under the guidance of Jan Karlin, Violist and music director of Southwest Chamber. 

Chad was a member of the LA Philharmonic High School Honor Orchestra, which performed on tour in the Sydney Opera House as well as Carnegie Hall. He was also in the American Youth Symphony Orchestra and principal violist at the Colburn performing arts school Orchestra de Camera.

Chris Hornung

DOUBLE BASS

Chris Hornung received his Bachelor of Music degree from Western Michigan University and his Master of Music degree from Michigan State University. An active double bassist, he is the principal bass of the Dana Point Symphony, Symphony Irvine, and Orchestra Collective of Orange County and was principal of the Orange County Symphony from 2008–2016. In the past, he performed with the Kalamazoo, Jackson, Lansing, Battle Creek and West Michigan Symphonies, Opera Tampa, and the California Chamber Orchestra. Chris is also active as a chamber musician and solo recitalist and has been featured as a soloist twice with the Orange County Symphony.

Chris is an adjunct faculty member at Concordia University Irvine, Chaffey College, and Coastline College. In the summers, he is a faculty member at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, where he teaches double bass and music history in addition to performing as principal bass of the Festival Orchestra.

Chris is also the owner of Zimmerman Publications, the integral part of any double bassist’s music library, providing complete orchestral parts for auditioning bassists, with suggested fingers and bowings.