Featured pianist Rev. Dr. Lily Chou is a Julliard trained pianist who currently serves as Minister of Parish Care (English Congregation) at Alhambra True Light Presbyterian Church. Chou holds a BA cum laude in piano, a M.S. from Julliard in New York and a Doctorate in Musical Arts majoring in piano performance from the University of Southern California. Lily Chou has performed in major cities in 21 States in this country, South East Asia, Russia, Austria and Guyana, S.A. She has been a soloist and ensemble player in such venues as the Tchaikowsky Hall in Moscow, Hong Kong City Hall, Cultural Center of Manila, Sanders Theatre of Harvard, Carnegie Recital Hall, N.Y., Chicago Cultural Center, etc. Chou toured Russia four times in solo and with orchestras and China 21 times. One televised performance in China was broadcast to an estimated audience of 300,000,000!
Featured oboist is Monica Ding who hails from Mount Prospect, IL. She attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland on a full scholarship where she received a B.M. degree in 1996. Monica then attended Northwestern University, where she graduated in 1997 with a M.M. degree in oboe performance. She has performed with the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra in Mexico, the Tamaulipas Music Festival Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Philharmonia, and the International Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Sacramento Philharmonic, Vallejo Symphony Orchestra and the Napa Valley Symphony. While in Mexico, Monica was the Professor of Oboe at the Zacatecas University in Zacatecas, Mexico. Her teachers have been Ray Still, Sara Watkins and Carl Sonik. She is now with the Air Force Academy Band in Colorado.
Featured trombonist David Quintanar holds a Masters degree from Yale University School of Music and a B.A. from the Manuel M. Ponce Music School in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Most recently David has performed as principal trombone with the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra and for the past 20 years he hold jobs with Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Queretaro and National Symphony Orchestras and in Europe with the World Junesses Musicales as well with the Zarzuela de Madrid Orchestra in Spain. He has also served as trombone professor of the Guanajuato and Zacatecas University music departments. Some of his teachers have been John Swallow at Yale, Michael Mulcahy from Chicago Symphony and Felix Mendez from the Mexico National Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Quintanar has played under many world renowned conductors such as Gunter Herbig, Eleazar de Carvalho, Vernon Handley, Odon Alonso, Dante Anzolini, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Shinik Hahm. At the moment he lives with his wife in Colorado Springs and is working in the creation of the Genesis Philharmonic International Youth Orchestra project.
Featured pianist David Yu graduated from Bethel High School in Hong Kong in the class of 1957. He was the recipient of the Caffee Hu Scholarship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he studied for 2 years. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Seattle Pacific University in 1961, and received his Ph.D. degree in physics from University of Washington in 1964. He was a professor of physics and researcher at Stanford University, Imperial College, University of Surrey and Seattle Pacific University. In 1983 he started his own high-tech company in Southern California, and is now the president and CEO of the company. Dr. Yu is a self taught pianist and is currently taking lessons from Dorothea Alpert at Palos Verdes.
Featured mezzo soprano Jackie Zhou has been trained in Beijing, China and London, England as an operatic singer. She now has a teaching studio in the Torrance area.