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Hear the most from these three stellar soloists at this year's Festival through the "Pick Any 5" Mozaic Sampler package AND save 20%. Our Guest Artist Package recommendation for you is: OR design your own Festival Mozaic Experience! Check out all of our flexible multi-ticket packages that are on sale now. This is your opportunity to enjoy lots of great music and receive 20% off single ticket prices. Single tickets go on sale June 1.
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Spotlight: Guest Cellist Bion Tsang
 There might have been something special in the water in Poughkeepsie, NY, where cellist Bion Tsang grew up. Like many younger brothers, Bion's desire to play an instrument was whetted by his older brother, who was studying the violin. Wanting in on the action, Bion began music studies with Warren Wyrick, a prominent music teacher in the area. Bion remembers distinctly the day Wyrick's own son, Peter, a young cello student, gave a recital. "At that moment, I was hooked," says Bion. Peter Wyrick is now the Associate Principal Cellist of the San Francisco Symphony, and Bion went on to become an International Tchaikovsky Competition winner, renowned soloist and highly sought-after teacher.
Bion credits his father, an IBM executive, with the solid education and support that allowed him to succeed. His father turned down several promotions so Bion could continue to commute from Poughkeepsie to NYC each weekend to attend Juilliard's pre-college division.
When Zubin Mehta, then music director of the New York Philharmonic, re-introduced the Young People's Concerts made so popular under Leonard Bernstein, Bion's training and hard work paid off. He won the concerto competition to solo with the orchestra, sharing the stage with Maestro Mehta at the age of 11.
Bion met Festival music director Scott Yoo almost 15 years ago when the two first played together at a music festival in Boston, and they have been playing chamber music together ever since.
"We have tried to get Bion to Festival Mozaic for the last three years, and luckily for us, this year it finally worked out," says Scott Yoo. "The Zimmerli Piano Trio we will be playing with John Novacek (July 24 concert) is so incredibly difficult that there are only a handful of cellists alive who can play it."
With an active performance schedule, recordings, a recent national PBS Special and family life that includes three young children, Bion still finds time to 'pay it forward' as a professor at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. Through the Paul J. Tsang Foundation, which he and his mother started after his father's death, he lends support to aspiring young musicians. |
Don't want to drive? Take the coach! 
Festival Mozaic will be providing convenient coach transportation to five concerts this summer: July 18 at Chapel Hill, July 19 at Vina Robles, July 21 at United Methodist Church, July 23 at the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa and July 25 at Hearst Castle.
Click here for the complete schedule with pick-up locations and times. Cost is $25/person and you can make reservations online when you purchase tickets to the corresponding concert. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy the music!
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July 17 Opening Night concert
July 24 Director's Circle Chamber concert
