This concert features the glorious Sonata for Cello and Piano by Rachmaninoff along with other shorter masterpieces performed by Justin Hansen on piano and Paul Tseng on cello. Paul Tseng (cello) has performed as a soloist, a recitalist, and an orchestral and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and South Africa. He has played in numerous concert halls such as Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Cairo Royal Opera House in Egypt, and The Royal Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan. As a chamber musician, Tseng has performed with luminaries such as Earl Carlyss and Ruth Inglefield, and as a member of the Delphian Trio, which won First Prize in the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards Competition. The second cellist ever awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University), Paul specialized in the cello music of Prokofiev. He also holds Bachelor and Master’s Degrees from the Juilliard School. He has held various faculty positions in New York, Maryland, West Virginia, New York, and Washington, DC. Paul is a founding member of the Logos Trio and the artistic director of the San Diego Music Society. Justin Hansen is a pianist, composer, and teacher based in San Diego. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from Utah Tech University, located in his hometown of St. George. During his time at Utah Tech, he had the honor of touring internationally as a guest soloist in Japan, England, and Norway, performing works such as Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto. Hansen was later accepted into the Master’s program at the Seattle Film Institute and earned his degree in Composition for Film, TV, and Video Games under the direction of Emmy Award-winning composer Hummie Mann.
