Pianist Richard Cionco — praised by Donal Henahan of the New York Times for his “sensitive pianism” has performed with many orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, and with the Seijo Symphony of Tokyo in a Washington, D.C. concert that commemorated Japan’s admission to the United Nations. He has also performed with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Las Cruces Symphony (NM), the Merced Symphony, the Folsom Symphony (CA), the Saratoga Symphony (CA), the Camellia Symphony (CA), the Symphony of the Redwoods (CA), the Oakland Civic Symphony, and has been featured with the Lawton Philharmonic in Oklahoma as a winner in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition. In Europe, he has performed concerti with the Czech State Chamber Orchestra, and in Prague’s Smetana Hall with the North Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra as a winner in the Prague Spring International Music Competition. Mr. Cionco has traveled four times to Denmark, performing in recital and master class; the Danish press called his most recent performance“dazzling” (Fredericia Dagblad). In 1996 he performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 seven times on tour in Japan and Taiwan with the California Youth Symphony; the performance in Osaka was broadcast on Japan Television and has been released as a live and unedited CD.