Frangel Lopez Cesena, violin

Mexican violinist, Frangel López-Ceseña, began his musical studies at the Baja California Sur School of Music under Luis Peláez-Garcia. As a talented youth, he was concertmaster of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and performed in the First International Meeting for Peace, Tolerance, and Dialogue, a project supported by the legendary conductor, Claudio Abbado. Frangel has been invited to play at the Camerata de las Américas and the National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico) and appeared as guest soloist with a number of Mexican orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Zacatecas, performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
Already one of Mexico's bright young talents at age 27, Frangel has performed all over Mexico, the US, Canada, Italy, Germany, France, and Portugal sharing the stage with musicians like Patricia Ahern, Horacio Franco, Alondra de la Parra, Francisco Savín, and Anatoli Zatin. He has participated in numerous master classes offered by internationally known violinists, for example, Martin Chalifour, Michael W. Davis, Joseph Gold, Ryu Goto, Paul Huang, Pavel Popov, Jorge Risi, and Alexander Treger. He also has taken master classes with the Borromeo String Quartet and the Cuarteto Latinoamericano. He has earned first prize in both the 2014 National “Tomás Ruiz Ovalle” Violin Competition of Mexico and the 2017 CSU Concerto Competition.
Frangel received a bachelor's degree in violin performance from the Superior School of Music of the National Institute of Fine Arts (Mexico) under Cuauhtémoc Rivera-Guzmán. He holds a master's degree in Music from the Colorado State University, where he studied with Dr. Ronald Francois and performed as concertmaster of the CSU Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Wes Kenney. During his doctoral studies at Western University, he studied with Professor Annette-Barbara Vogel, and Lillian Scheirich.
Currently, he is writing a dissertation that applies Dr. Robert S. Hatten’s Theory of Virtual Agency on Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas. His research and performance interests are baroque and contemporary repertoire for violin, violin history, musical hermeneutics, rhetoric, music semiotics, and agency.

Karen Duong, viola

Adrian Wright, cello

The major part of Adrian Wright's work as a cellist was spent as a member of the National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff, U.K. The broad repertoire of a BBC orchestra and significant resources of the BBC made this an interesting time. During his years in the U.K., Adrian was able to work with a number of orchestras on a freelance basis.
He had experience as a cello teacher in school and private studio settings and learned much from some consultation lessons that he had with the inspirational cello teacher Joan Dickson. Later several years of lessons with an Alexander Method Teacher taught him much about natural, active and effective posture and technique.
Presently Adrian is enjoying a varied professional life. He is a lecturer at the Don Wright Faculty of Music in the Music Education Dept. helping aspiring high school teachers understand the cello and cello technique. He has a private studio, plays in a number of chamber ensembles and freelances, mainly with Orchestra London.
In September 2019 he starts as cello teacher at the London Waldorf School and is excited to work in such a refreshing environment with the under 10s, a new departure.
Adrian received his training as a cellist from the Royal Academy of Music in London, U.K. and prior to that three years with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain had a considerable influence on the course of his life.

Joel Tangjerd, cello