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1812 TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR!
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Friday, August 31, 7:30pm
Saturday, September 1, 7:30pm
Sunday, September 2, 7:30pm

Matthew Garbutt, conductor
Julian Schwarz, cello
Navy Band Southwest

We’re going out with a bang! It’s our spectacular, whata-way-to-go, season-finale: Tchaikovsky’s thunderous 1812 Overture complete with booming cannons and brilliant fireworks. The festivities also feature a bright young cellist, Julian Schwarz, performing Tchaikovsky’s beautiful Rococo Variations. Have a blast this summer’s end!

The San Diego Symphony brass section was featured on KUSI-TV's "Good Morning San Diego" show Friday morning (CLICK HERE to check it out!)

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Friday, August 31 - TchaikSpec               Saturday, Sept. 1 - TchaikSpec               Sunday, Sept. 2 - TchaikSpec

Born in Seattle into a musical family, twenty-year-old cellist Julian Schwarz is already being recognized as a young musician with great talent and even greater potential.

Mr. Schwarz made his orchestral debut at the age of 11 playing the Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 1 with the Seattle Symphony with his father, Gerard Schwarz, on the podium. Since then he has appeared as soloist with many of the Seattle area orchestras. In the winter of 2010 he was one of the featured soloists on an extensive US tour with the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing 13 concerts on the East and West coasts.

Recent and upcoming performance highlights include concerto appearances with the Seattle, Columbus (OH), Syracuse, Virginia, Hartford, Sarasota, Grand Rapids, Omaha, Springfield (MA) and Greensboro (NC) symphonies and recitals at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico and in Palm Springs.

Julian Schwarz has performed as a chamber musician at the Aspen, Interlochen, Eastern, California Summer and Encore music festivals. In summer 2009 he was the "Featured Young Artist" at both the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and the Cape Cod Music Festival and attended and performed at the prestigious Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He returned to the Eastern Music and Cape Cod festivals in summer 2010 for chamber music performances and performed the Brahms Double at the Eastern Music Festival and the Bellingham Festival of Music in summer 2011.

In both 2007 and 2008 Mr. Schwarz won the highly regarded Northwest Sinfonietta Youth Concerto Competition. The resulting performances as soloist with Music Director Christophe Chagnard led to his appointment as assistant conductor under Chagnard with Seattle's Lake Union Civic Orchestra, with which he has conducted Borodin's Second Symphony and Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice at Seattle's Town Hall.

Mr. Schwarz was recently profiled in a cover story of Teen Strings and has been featured on the acclaimed NPR radio program From the Top. He has also recorded In Memoriam by Gerard Schwarz for the “Music of Remembrance” series on the Naxos label.

Julian Schwarz started piano lessons at the age of five and began his cello studies the following year with the late David Tonkonogui; subsequent teachers have included Toby Saks and Lynn Harrell. He attends The Juilliard School in New York City where he studies with Joel Krosnick.