Erik Danielson is an in-demand Bass-Baritone artist who has been described as “commanding attention” with a “barihunk instrument” and “silvery tone.” He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree from Texas Christian University in Vocal Performance and Piano Performance in 2014, where he was a National Merit Scholar, the recipient of the Chancellor’s Scholarship for academic excellence, and a finalist for the Nordan Scholarship as both a vocalist and pianist.
He then earned a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance and Conducting from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2017, followed by an Artist’s Diploma from the Boston University Opera Institute, where he starred as Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress and Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park.
He has sung roles in opera, oratorio, and musical theater, including Escamillo in Carmen, Leporello and Commendatore from Don Giovanni, Bill Sikes in Oliver!, and was the Bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He was a member of the Texas Boy’s Choir for nine years, with whom he toured throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to his vocal and acting work, he is an accomplished church musician and a skilled collaborative pianist with over twenty years of experience, having begun accompanying high school clarinet students before the age of ten.
Since her PBS broadcasted debut chamber performance at Carnegie Hall through From the Top Live from Carnegie, violist Rachel Li McDonald has continued to be an active performer and teacher in both solo, chamber, and orchestra settings throughout North America and Japan.
Through the Young Musicians Foundation Chamber Program, Rachel has performed live on KMZT Radio’s “Sunday Live” broadcast various times. In 2006, she also performed live on KMZT for YMF Mozart 250th Birthday Chamber Concert. She also performed as part of the Colburn Honor’s Quartet as well as in various chamber festivals such as Encore Summer School for Strings, The Quartet Program, and Heifetz International Summer Institute. Chamber coaches include Earl Carlyss, Daniel Heifetz, Nicholas Mann, Desmond Hoebig, and James Dunham.
In addition to having soloed with the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic, Rachel has also performed as an orchestral musician in the Colburn Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, and Shepherd School of Music Orchestra under such conductors as Ronald Leonard, James DePreist, Bernard Haitink, Tan Dun, and Larry Rachleff. She also performed as part of Rice University’s Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall conducted under Maestro Rachleff.
Rachel holds a Bachelors degree from The Juilliard School under Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory as well as a Masters degree at Rice University studying under James Dunham. She previously studied with Diana Ray Goodman, John Hayhurst, and Brian Chen. She has also performed in masterclasses with Paul Coletti and David Holland, as well as the renowned Biava Quartet, Cavani Quartet, and Takacs Quartet.
Passionate about spreading the joy of music to the community, Rachel was a part of the Gluck Fellowship program offered at Juilliard, through which she went to a variety of hospitals and care centers throughout the city to perform to audiences ranging from young children to the elderly. In her pre-college days, Rachel also was a part of an ensemble called Sunset Hills String Ensemble, performing similar outreach concerts in Southern California.
Eager to pass on her knowledge and experience to the next generation, Rachel currently resides in Plano, TX and has a successful viola studio there. Her students have received top rankings in the TMEA All-State Orchestras as well as the All-Region orchestras in the area. She has also had students get 1st place in the Dallas Symphonic Festival Competitions in multiple categories. Her students have gone on to study viola performance at Juilliard, Eastman, and have also attended such festivals as NYO and NSO Summer Music Institute.
Claire Garza Ross, originally from Houston, studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and received her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Viola Performance. She moved to Dallas in 2008 and has performed with Texas Winds, the Dallas Symphony, the Dallas Opera, the Fort Worth Symphony, and the Richardson Symphony. Claire teaches for the Dallas Symphony’s Young Strings program. She enjoys hiking, skiing, biking, swimming, and watching movies with her husband and 3 kids.
Curiosity, vivid imagination, passion for travel, and new experiences – are all things that define an open-minded musician. Such is the case with KeyReel, who has traveled and experienced foreign cultures, which has allowed him to broaden his knowledge and confidence in his own way. His experiences have inspired his music, which in turn shines through his performances and inspires audiences all over the globe. Coming from a generous and sunny Uzbekistan – that determined creative way of thinking and zest for life are the basis for a man of the arts.
Keyreel was interested in music from the age of two, playing vinyl records over and over. At the age of six, it was discovered that Keyreel had perfect pitch, and he entered the V.A. Uspensky Republican Central Special Music School to study violin and, later, composition and symphony conducting. He wrote his first composition at the age of eight, and four years later, he gave a local radio interview and performed his first work. At seventeen, he earned the highest score on entrance exams to Gnesin’s Russian Academy of Music and was accepted to study violin under Professor Kh. Akhtyamova. He also attended the class for quartets under the tutelage of Professor V. Berlinsky, the founder and soul of the Borodin String Quartet.
He finished Uspensky school in 2000 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) with diplomas in violin performance, composition, and symphony conducting. KeyReel graduated from the Gnesin’s Russian Academy of Music in 2005 (Moscow, Russia) with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin performance and pedagogy and from TCU School of Music in 2018 (Fort Worth, TX) with an artist diploma in violin performance.
Keyreel was eager to learn as much as he possibly could, and attended festivals and workshops in France, Belgium, Holland, and other places throughout Europe. During this time, he never stopped writing music, and his works have been performed and recorded in the Great Hall of the Gnesin’s Academy, The Moscow House of Composers, McKinney Performance hall and at Texas Christian University.
He has performed with the State Symphony Cinema Orchestra, Pavel Slobodkin’s Center Chamber Orchestra, and also arranged music for the Sonore chamber music ensemble and the Just Enjoy String Band. KeyReel is an active member of several orchestras around DFW, including Las Colinas, Plano, Irving symphony and a core member of Chaverim chamber music ensemble with Boriana Savova.
Keyreel is extremely versatile in his playing styles, mastering classical playing and Celtic tradition. Keyreel is the first-ever Russian finalist in the prestigious All-Ireland Fleadh in Tullamore. He has attended many folk music festivals as a student, including Alasdair Fraser’s Fiddle Courses on the Isle of Skye (Scotland) in 2010 and 2012. In 2013, he was one of the creators of Celtic-Music.ru, a website about Celtic Music life in Russia, and that summer, he gave an interview to the Celtic Life Magazine. Cape Breton Fiddler Association annual festival invited KeyReel as a special guest in 2013. In Moscow, he was a member of four different bands playing traditional Celtic music and bluegrass. The Glasach Trio, one of his projects, was Moscow-based and toured concerts in the U.K. in 2014. He was also a guest artist at the Celtic Colours Festival in the Fall of 2016. As a fiddle player, he played with the Reel Treble band at the North Texas Irish Festival in 2018 and 2019. Also, as a core member of Three Pints and a Glass, he played at the same festival in 2019. Currently, I am a member of the Celtic Standard Time duo with Alex Hand on guitar.
Traditional Celtic fiddle is not KeyReel’s only interest other than classical violin. He has an award in the Bob Wills Texas fiddle competition in 2015, Greenville, TX. Occasionally, he plays swing and jazz music in DFW with Glen McLaughlin Band, Two-bit swing band, Kim Platko, Jason Jones, Alex Hand, Ben Katzen, and others.
Currently, KeyReel has his own company, KeyReel Music, which provides music entertainment for events and other music services, including education in DFW. He is the founder and director of North Texas Celtic Strings, a learn-by-ear program. Moreover, he is the founder, arranger, and 5-string violin player for a new project that will be announced soon.
Dr. Alice (Jeong-A) Lee is the Principal Cellist in the Richardson Symphony and former faculty at Texas Women’s University.
She earned her doctorate and master’s degrees in cello performance from the University of North Texas under Eugene Osadchy.
Dr. Lee has extensive experience in solo, chamber music, and orchestra in the United States, Canada, South Korea, and Taiwan. Over the years, besides giving numerous solo recitals, she has performed professionally at numerous events and venues as a soloist, a chamber musician as well as an orchestra player.
She has played with the Trans Siberian Orchestra and also performed alongside the following famous artists: Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Yoyo Ma, and pop artist Kanye West. Her cello playing can be heard on recordings of famous Korean pop music artists, Seung Hwan Lee and Jun Seun Kim.
In 2017, She appeared as a featured concerto soloist within the Northeast Orchestra in Texas. In addition, her cello solos are frequently heard on national and international broadcasts of the Insights for Living radio program and she was a featured musician on the Insight for Living website in October 2013.
Since February 2024, Dr. Lee regularly appears as a soloist and chamber musician for Timeless Concert Series in Fort Worth area.
Dr. Lee currently is a member of Stonebriar Quartet. Her passion for chamber music is evident in her playing and she has had many international experiences, performing in various string quartets. While in South Korea, she was a member of the Euphonia String Quartet that performed in Seoul. She also toured Taiwan and Korea with the Kyung-won String Chamber Group, recording a CD. While in Vancouver, Canada, she won First Place in the Elsje de Ridder Armstrong Chamber Music Competition and the CDMF Performing Arts Festival. Dr. Lee was also the recipient of the Liberace Scholarship while pursuing her graduate studies at the University of North Texas. As a member of the Liberace Graduate String Quartet, she performed throughout Texas representing the University of North Texas.
In addition to playing as the Principal Cellist in the RSO, she has performed with many other professional orchestras in the DFW area, including the Plano Symphony, East Texas Symphony, Lewisville Lake Symphony, Irving Symphony, and Abilene Phillharmonic. In Canada, she played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra. In South Korea, with the Royal Symphony Orchestra and New Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also Principal Cellist at Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, where she frequently appears as a soloist.
Dr. Lee gives Master Classes and she frequently appears as a clinician for All State and All Region Orchestra Competitions for DFW area. Dr. Lee also has her own cello studio in Denton, Texas where she teaches a number of talented young musicians who have won chairs in UIL All Region orchestras, UIL All State Orchestras, the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra (GDYO) and Fort Worth Youth Orchestra.
Soprano Youna Jang Hartgraves is acclaimed for her electrifying, passionate performances and compelling storytelling on stage. Follow Youna on social media (@OperaMyWay on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube), where she shares her distinctive and refreshing approach to classical vocal music.
Critics have consistently praised her vocal power, range, and emotional depth. Theater Jones wrote,
“Youna Jang excelled in the role of Susan B. Anthony—she has a big voice, large range, and well-developed vibrato.”
Annapolis Patch noted,
“Youna Jang displayed a voice of beauty and power… more than adequate to convey the emotional turmoil of her character in Menotti’s The Consul and the needed vocal agility for a fine rendition of Marguerite’s ‘Jewel Song’ from Gounod’s Faust.”
Her portrayal of Tatyana in Eugene Onegin was singled out by InstantEncore for its dramatic nuance and vocal mastery:
“Youna Jang met this challenge adeptly… Her powerful voice effortlessly filled the room, yet her soft singing immediately commanded attention… encapsulating a lifetime of suffering within a single phrase.”
Youna has sung leading operatic roles throughout the United States. At the age of 23, she made a notable debut in the title role of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Opera Delaware and was subsequently invited to sing Mimì in La Bohème, along with numerous recitals and concerts.
While at Temple University, her roles included Natalia Petrovna (A Month in the Country), the Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mimì (La Bohème), Climene (L’Egisto), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), and Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). She was later granted the rare opportunity to portray Susan B. Anthony in Thomson’s The Mother of Us All at the University of North Texas.
Youna participated in the Young Artist Program at Opera Saratoga for two seasons, singing Louise in La Vie Parisienne and covering the title role of Madama Butterfly. She also appeared in the Apprentice and Studio programs at Sarasota Opera, singing Madama Butterfly at the Sarasota Chalk Festival. As a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts, she performed Amelia (Un ballo in maschera) and Tatyana (Eugene Onegin).
Her honors include awards from the Fritz & Lavinia Jensen Foundation, two-time prizes from the Annapolis Opera Competition, the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and the New Jersey State Alfredo Silipigni Vocal Competition. She was also invited to compete in the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, the Elizabeth Connell Prize for Dramatic Sopranos (New York and San Francisco), Composizione dell’Opera in Germany, and the Hariclea Darclée Competition in Romania. She received the Boyer Merit Scholarship for musical excellence and served as soprano soloist in Bruckner’s Te Deum at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall.
Youna holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Voice and Opera Performance from Temple University and earned her Doctorate in Voice Performance And Pedagogy from the University of North Texas. She has held teaching positions at UNT, Texas State University, Tarrant County College, and the University of Mary, while maintaining a thriving private studio in voice and piano.
As a mother to an autistic child and a deeply committed music educator, Youna’s mission extends beyond the stage. She is dedicated to creating accessible, meaningful music and drama education for neurodivergent students, blending artistry, advocacy, and pedagogy. Follow her journey and work on social media for performances, education, and creative insight.
The Arlington Today Magazine described Sabrina as bringing ” music to our ears and our souls.” Sabrina recently moved back to Fort Worth after over a decade of performing in San Francisco and is excited to collaborate with Timeless Concerts once again. She has performed with Lamplighters Music Theatre, Opera Parallèle, San Francisco Opera’s Education Outreach, Sing for America, and San Diego Opera. Sabrina was previously the assistant music director and head cantor at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco. Highlighted roles include the title role in the world premiere Xochitl and the Flowers, Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore), Sister Catherine (Dead Man Walking), Susanna and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Claudia Nardi (Nine), and Little Red (Into the Woods). Sabrina holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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Tenor Sergio Cepeda
Sergio Cepeda has been highly acclaimed for his exciting, passionate tenor voice and commanding stage presence, making this young and upcoming tenor the “whole package.” Reviewing a recent performance of The Magic Flute, a critic wrote: “Mr. Cepeda’s beautiful tenor voice handled Tamino’s music with elegance, appropriate color, and well balanced tone throughout. His acting was clear and direct. He made a handsome and dashing young prince.” Another critic said about Mr. Cepeda’s Orchestra of New Spain debut, “Sergio Cepeda has a wonderful lyric tenor voice. Pure honey. It is perfectly produced, and even throughout all of the registers.” Mr. Cepeda’s performances on the operatic stage have taken him throughout the USA and Europe, performing such roles as Tamino in The Magic Flute, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Alfredo in La Traviata, Romeo in Roméo et Juliette, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.
Mr. Cepeda’s most recent performances include an appearance on the Guest Artist Series presented by TCU at the Van Cliburn Hall, The Juliet Letters with Neo Camerata, Flavio in Bellini’s Norma, Manuel Garcia in La Duda Satisfecha for Orchestra of New Spain, and Obadiah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Miscellaneous concert work continues, as a regular performer with Timeless Concerts, as well as various roles with Ft. Worth Opera.
Mr. Cepeda is at ease performing a wide variety of musical genres, such as classical, jazz, tango, and mariachi. In vocal competitions, Mr. Cepeda has been a solid contender and was the 1st prize recipient of the UNT Winspear Opera Scholarship Competition, and 1st Audience Prize (5th Prize with the judges) at Shreveport Opera’s Singer of the Year Competition. Florida Grand Opera/Young Patronesses of Opera awarded him the 2nd Prize. Mr. Cepeda’s formal studies earned him degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington (B.M. Music Business), TCU (M.M. VoicePerformance), and University of North Texas (Post-Graduate Artist Certificate in Opera Performance.) He continues his training with Inci Bashar, Gioacchino LiVigni and his Mediterranean Opera Studio in Sicily and New York.
His professional mariachi career started at age 15, when he began training and performing as a guitarist and vocalist with members of Mariachi de Oro in Fort Worth, Mariachi Cobre of Tucson and Disney World/Epcot, Rigoberto Alfaro of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, and the brothers Jesús and José Hernandez of Mariachi Sol de México, all 3 ensembles considered among the most elite of their genre. At age 17, he was invited to what would become a life-changing event when DECCA recording label invited him to collaborate with the Fort Worth Symphony and the rising star tenor, Juan Diego Flórez, on the album Sentimiento Latino. Mr. Cepeda’s performances for charity and fundraising events helped raise over $600,000 for various local, national, and international organizations and disaster relief programs. He is a regular performer with Timeless Concerts since 2015, as well as a member of the board. Additionally, he is a licensed Dallas/Fort Worth real estate agent.
Pianist Dr. Heejung Kang was born in Seoul, Korea, and studied at the Seoul Music and Art High School for musically gifted teenagers. She graduated with the highest honors from the College of Music, Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul and later at the same university she earned her master’s degree in Piano, receiving the Ewha Graduate Research Fellowship Scholarship. Completing her doctoral dissertation on Rachmaninoff, she received her doctorate in Piano Performance at the College of Music at the University of North Texas in 2004.
As a performer, Dr. Kang has given solo and chamber recitals in the United States, Korea, South Africa, UK, and Israel. Internationally, she has participated in various concerts, radio broadcast performances, and recordings for the “Lost Composers’ Project,” which is dedicated to recovering the music of composers whose works were obscured as a result of the cultural policies of the Nazis and the Holocaust. In 2002, She made a recording of “Rediscovered Lieder and Piano Pieces by Kletzki, Oppel, and Schenker,” sponsored by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jewish Federation, and College of Music at UNT. In December 2004, she performed music by Paul Kletzki, Reinhard Oppel, Arnold Mendelssohn and other composers live on Israel Radio. In November 2005, she performed solo piano music by Heinrich Schenker at the inaugural meeting of the Korean Society for Music Theory in Seoul and premiered Kletzki’s Sonata for Piano and Violin with Robert Davidovici on Korean National Radio (KBS FM1). Dr. Kang has recorded Reinhard Oppel’s solo piano music for Toccata Classics in England, which was released in 2011. Her second commercial CD on Anton Eberl’s violin sonatas for Toccata Classics was released in 2018 and was selected as a “Disc of the Month” by French magazine Classica. It also received attention from the prominent Korean newspaper, Chosunilbo, as an important world-premiere recording. The Fanfare reviewer wrote: “…Eberl, remember, was himself a celebrated piano virtuoso, and some of his writing for the instrument in these sonatas is quite brilliant. Kang handles it all with ease and stylish aplomb, always sensitive not to upstage the violin…” Both CDs are distributed by Naxos and available through Naxos Online as well. She is currently preparing Oppel’s piano music volume 2 for Toccata Classics as well as the second volume of Anton Eberl’s violin sonatas. Dr. Kang is an avid chamber musician currently presenting interestingly themed programs five times a year in Arlington/Fort Worth, TX.
The Timeless Concert series, for which she is the pianist, includes not only classical music repertoire but also many piano trio transcriptions of well-known arias and art songs, which has made the series successful in attracting a large audience in the DFW area. Currently a Senior Lecturer in Piano at the University of North Texas, she teaches courses in Piano Literature, Sight-reading, Accompanying, and Keyboard Harmony. From 2007 to the present, Dr. Kang has been serving as a judge for the Vernell Gregg Young Artist Competition (previously Lewisville Young Artist Competition). Additionally, she has served as a judge for the Dallas Symphonic Festival, Fort Worth Music Teachers Association Competition, MTNA Oregon state competition, and Collin County Music Competition (TX).
Violinist LeeAnne Chenoweth Lawson
Ms. Chenoweth began taking violin and piano lessons at age 5 in her hometown; Enid, Oklahoma. By age 12, her father was taking her to Tulsa, weekly, for violin lessons with the concertmaster of the Tulsa Philharmonic. Ms. Chenoweth graduated from the SMU Meadows School of Arts with a Bachelor’s Degree in Violin Performance, having been a recipient of the Meadows Artistic Achievement Award Scholarship.
Soon after receiving her degree, she began working with the Dallas Opera Orchestra violin section; two seasons later, she won a violin audition in Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra, working in FWSO from the 90s until 2007. During her orchestral career in Ft. Worth, she shared the stage with great classical artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Van Cliburn, Yo-Yo Ma, Pavoratti, Joshua Bell, Time For Three, and more. Plus, pops artists as diverse as Natalie Cole, Marvin Hamlisch, Pink Martini, Johnny Cash, The Beatles tribute band “Classical Mystery Tour” and even accompanying members of Cirque du Soleil. Early 2007, she imagined a chamber music series like Timeless Concerts, began planning, and produced her first concert summer 2007 in Arlington. In 2010, Ms. Chenoweth was honored by Legacy Of Women of Tarrant County, arts division. Ms. Chenoweth currently works as a substitute violinist for Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and regular with the Waco Symphony, where in 2015 she collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, in 2017 with superstar soprano Renee Fleming and recently with international concert violinist Ray Chen. .
In addition to concert performance work, Ms. Chenoweth contracts ensembles for special events throughout Texas; some examples being wine tastings at the Anatole, Christmas parties at the Ft. Worth Club, weddings and parties in a variety of locations from the Ritz Hotel to a family ranch. She also contracts orchestras for various churches and choral organizations. Ms. Chenoweth plays on a French violin made approximately in 1848 by Nicolas Vuillaume. Her passion is to keep beautiful music alive to be heard by future generations. She frequently performs free educational programs in elementary schools, encouraging children to appreciate music of all eras, pointing out that composers of movie music they enjoy were influenced by the classics. Hear more about Ms. Chenoweth’s mission in the promotional video on the home page of the Timeless Concerts website. She married Richard Lawson while still attending SMU; they live in north Arlington and have two grown daughters.