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Rising Stars featuring Claire Lewis (piano) & Erica Hwang (violin).
Already recipients of a plethora of awards and recognized as gifted musicians, Claire and Erica are considered to be the next wave of "Rising Stars" in classical music.
Last year, when Claire was just 13, she was just the youngest Palomar College graduate in the school's 70-year history. She aspires to become an orchestral conductor and a concert pianist. Claire also plays the violin in the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra Symphony and the Palomar College Symphony Orchestra. Claire will play Piano Sonata in C minor by Mozart, Ballade No. 3 by Chopin, and Etude "Winter Wind" by Chopin.
Erica has won numerous awards, has performed in the San Diego Youth Symphony for seven years, performed at Carnegie Hall and toured Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia last year, and this summer toured China, South Korea and Taiwan. Last year she created her own orchestra, the San Diego Philharmonic, and she has announced she will begin studies at Stanford University this fall. In this performance, Erica will be playing Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor by Beethoven accompanied by pianist, Cho-Hyun Park.