Anna Audenis

Piano

Anna Isabel Audenis, 17, started playing the piano at the age of five and has been charming audiences and judges alike with her thoughtful and musical interpretations ever since. Most recently, Anna won first prize at the Southern Youth Music Festival, and was one of the seven winners at the PianoTexas 2022 concerto competition. Anna also won 2nd place at the Los Angeles International Piano Competition and placed 1st at the Kathryn Gawartin Chopin Competition. Furthermore, Anna is a two-time 1st place winner of the Great Composer’s International Piano Competition, a 2nd place winner of Music Teachers National Association of California, and over the course of several years has earned numerous top prizes at the Southern Youth Music Festival. Since 2014, Anna has been an active honor member of Junior Chamber Music and for the past 3 years has been a JCM debut artist. Anna’s chamber group was named as one of the 2022 semifinalists at the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In 2015, Anna made her debut orchestra appearance with Orchestra Napolitana and has since performed with the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra and the Southern Youth Music Festival Orchestra. Anna began piano lessons with Eduardo Delgado at age eight before transferring to Rufus Choi, her current teacher, at age twelve. Anna has also been fortunate enough to have participated in masterclasses with Oxana Yablonskaya, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Eteri Andjaparidze, Sasha Starcevich, John Perry, and Alexander Korsantia. In addition to studying music, Anna has been teaching piano to children since 2020. Anna speaks French and Czech fluently and in her free time enjoys studying meteorology. Anna is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society.

Erin Han

Violin

Erin Han started playing the violin at the age of five. She has won first place in numerous competitions such as the Bellflower Symphony Concerto Competition, Southern California Philharmonic Concerto Competition, Southwestern Youth Music Festival, Satori Competition, American Protege International Competition, and California Scholarship Competition of Music Teachers Association. She was a member of the Colburn Chamber Orchestra. She studies with Yuki Mori and Min Jung Park.

Jonathan Doh

Piano

Thirteen-year-old Korean-American pianist Jonathan Jihan Doh is currently attending Orange County School of Arts. He began his music journey in piano with his mother at the age of six and currently studies piano under the instruction of Dr. Myong-Joo Lee. Jonathan has won various competitions, including being selected as youngest finalist in the 2020 Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany, 1st prize at the MTAC State Solo Competition, Second Prize at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, Second Prize at the Arizona Piano Institution Solo Competition, and First Prize at the 2022 MTAC State Concerto Competition. In addition to his competition success, Jonathan is an active chamber musician and has recently performed with his piano trio at Winifred Smith Hall at University of California, Irvine.

Rubi Lee

Violin

Violinist Rubi Lee, 15, from Irvine, California, is a tenth-grader at Orange County School of the Arts. Rubi was selected to perform on NPR’s From the Top, and was featured in a nationwide broadcast last April. She is a member of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, and she studies music at the Violin Studio with teachers Yuki Mori and MinJung Park. Rubi has received prizes in numerous competitions, including winning first place at the American Protégé International Concerto Competition, first place at the Pacific Musical Society and Foundation Competition, the grand prize in the Satori Strings Grand Prize Contest, first place at the American String Teachers Association Competition through the State Finals, and first place at the SYMF Competition. Rubi has been volunteering at many different senior centers with music performance since she was seven years old. She is also a member of CTS String Ensemble and is active as a music volunteer. When she is not playing violin, Rubi enjoys running and art.

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.