Julian Schwarz, cello, made his Music of Remembrance debut as the 2005 David Tonkonogui Memorial Award Winner, playing his father's composition, "In Memoriam." He attends the Academy of Music Northwest, and studies cello with Toby Saks, University of Washington professor of cello, and founder and Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society. A Seattle native, Schwarz has received three Interlochen Fine Arts awards, performed with the Seattle Symphony, and conducted Tchaikovsky's Coronation March with the Symphony at an annual benefit. A student of Tonkonogui for seven years, he started his musical training with the piano at age five, the cello at six. He has since studied under Irene Sharp and Raymond Davis, and has participated in a master class by James Kreger.