CHRISTIAN GONZALES
NEWS
May 26, 2024
3rd prize/1st place instrumental ($11,000) and Fenstermaker Scholar Award winner at the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego Competition.
May 24, 2024
Graduated from The Juilliard School (MM Violin).
April, 29, 2024
Graduate recital at Juilliard. Beethoven Violin Concerto with world premiere of original cadenzas.
December 11, 2023
Associate concertmaster with the Juilliard Orchestra. Bruckner Symphony No. 8 under Donald Runnicles at the Alice Tully Hall.
May 28, 2023
3rd prize/1st place instrumental ($12,000) Fenstermaker Scholar Award and Aspen Award (full scholarship for the 2024 Aspen Music Festival and School) winner at the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego Competition.
February 27, 2023
Awarded fellowship to the 2023 Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA.
October 29, 2023
Juilliard Orchestra and New York Philharmonic side-by-side under David Robertson for the (new) David Geffen Hall Open House Weekend (Wu Tsai Series).
June 18, 2022
2nd prize ($1,500) Patricia and Christopher Weil Family Foundation Award at the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus Young Artists Competition.
June 10, 2022
Graduated from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (BM Performance).
April 29, 2022
Loaned the 1732 Duke of Alcantara Stradivarius until June 1.
NEWS & MEDIA APPEARENCES
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East County violin student to perform with ECYS. SDNews.com. (2023, November 6). https://sdnews.com/east-county-violin-student-to-perform-with-ecys/
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Fulcher, A. (2023, November 14). Juilliard violinist returns to his roots in El Cajon. The East County Californian. https://eccalifornian.com/juilliard-violinist-returns-to-his-roots-in-el-cajon/
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Fulcher, A. (2023, November 9). From East County to Juilliard and back. The Alpine Sun. https://thealpinesun.com/from-east-county-to-juilliard-and-back/
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(2022, June 1). UCLA Symphony Spring Quarter Concert. UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. https://web.archive.org/web/20240229022217/https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/ucla-symphony-spring-quarter-concert/