The Performers

Marcel Rominger, Piano

The BBC hails Marcel Rominger's playing as "equally polished, considered and characterful," and New York Concert Review described him as playing with “poise and elegance” when he made his Carnegie Hall debut January, 2009.

Mr. Rominger won the Crane Concerto Competition and North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Concerto / Aria Competition and is the recipient of the Rose L. Greenblatt Award in Piano. He was also named the MTNA Arkansas State Winner of the Young Artist Category. Mr. Rominger was awarded an Honorable Mention at the William Garrison Competition in Baltimore Maryland.  He was selected as the recipient for the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island Excellence in the Performing Arts Award and was awarded a grant in to perform a recital on Staten Island.  Mr. Rominger is a supporter of new music and has participated in the New York City Electroacoustic Festival.

In addition to being a soloist, Mr. Rominger has appeared with the Potsdam Symphony Orchestra and the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. His music has been featured on the radio station WDAV in Charlotte, NC and BBC’s World Update on World Service Radio.  He continues to give performances throughout the U.S., Europe and South America.

Mr. Rominger obtained a Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education and Piano Performance from the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York in Potsdam. His teachers included Olga Gross and Paul Wyse. He received his Masters of Music from the University of Arkansas studying under acclaimed concert pianist Jura Margulis where Mr. Rominger held an assistantship in accompanying. He has studied with Hugo Goldenzweig at Mannes College of Music in New York, and he has also been coached by Seymour Bernstein and Leslie Howard.  In 2019, Mr. Rominger completed his a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at The City University of New York, Graduate Center.

In addition to performing, Mr. Rominger is highly sought after as a scholar, teacher and masterclass presenter throughout the world.  He has taught classes at Baruch College, College of Staten Island, LaGuardia Community College and is a recipient of the CUNY Chancellor's Fellowship Award.  He has also served as the Director of Performing Arts at the Staten Island Conservatory of Music and is the founder of the Sunnyside Piano Studio in Queens, New York.

Lynlia Tso, Piano

Lynlia Tso is an arts administrator, pianist, piano teacher, actor, and recording studio assistant based in New York City. Her pursuits include shooting films, teaching piano technique, and live streaming concerts.

In May of 2023, Lynlia graduated with a Master of Arts in Performing Arts Administration at New York University. She previously received a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Chinese Language & Literature at CUNY Hunter College under the Macaulay Honors Program. In 2019, Lynlia completed her capstone year in Taiwan under the American Council’s Language Flagship Program, where she studied Mandarin extensively and worked as an intern at the Taiwan Philharmonic. 

Currently, Lynlia is pursuing a second graduate degree in Music Therapy.  Her current research interests lie in the psychological and neurological impact of music and its relationship to overall well-being.  In her spare time, Lynlia enjoys singing and playing the ukulele, and posting her self-development journey on social media.  Most recently, Lynlia competed as a top 10 finalist of the Miss Chinese Pageant 2023. 

Holly Gash, Soprano

Internationally acclaimed soprano Holly Gash has been in popular demand throughout the United States and Central America since her debut in Guatemala in 2003.  Consistently brilliant performances in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and El Salvador have firmly established Ms. Gash as a “most favored diva” among many opera patrons due to her name alone.

In 2011, Ms. Gash made her New York debut with the Vertical Repertoire Opera in the title role of Calisto.  “Holly Gash as Calisto sang in a caressing soprano with power on reserve… Her aria to freedom, ‘Viver in Libertad,’ was a feast to the spirit and one of the many that delighted the ear.  Her fioritura in her aria, ‘Verginella il Morir Vo,’ was marvelous.”  (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nino Pantano).

Opportunities in Central America were key in forming Ms. Gash’s early professional career.  Ms. Gash made her personal debut of many operas and oratorios with the Guatemala National Symphony and Guatemala Youth Orchestra, including the Mozart Requiem, Rossini Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and excerpts from the Verdi Requiem.  In October of 2007, she was the featured soloist in an all-Verdi extravaganza in El Salvator, performing arias from I Vespri Siciliani, La Traviata, La Forza del Destino, and Aida.  In 2006, Ms. Gash opened the Guatemala National Symphony season with arias and duets from Carmen, I Pagliacci, La Forza del Destino, and Il Trovatore with world-renowned baritone, Luis Giron May.  In 2008, Ms. Gash enchanged Managua, Nicaragua’s Ruben Dario National Theater with her debut there as Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly.  In 2005, Ms. Gash made her debut in San José, Costa Rica performing the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata under the direction of Constantino Juri and Maestro Mario Perusso, both from Buenos Aires Teatro Colón.  Ted Wasserman of the Tico Times introduced his review of Ms. Gash’s Traviata performance with, “La Gringa Takes Opera Scene by Storm.”  This Traviata performance proved to be a very auspicious step for Ms. Gash, for having just performed Verdi’s eponymous Luisa Miller in Houston, Texas with Opera in the Heights, her debut was credited by The Houston Press as “a vocal powerhouse.”  The Houston Chronicle’s critic, Charles Ward, proclaimed, “Miss Gash adds simple voice and touching lyricism to the final scene.”  Ms. Gash first performed with Opera in the Heights as Leonora in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino under the direction of Maestro William Weibel, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera.

The following year, in 2006, Ms. Gash performed the role of the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with Living Opera of Richardson, Texas to great acclaim, along with the title role of Thaïs as an alumnus guest artist with the Opera Theatre of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  In 2009, Ms. Gash debuted a triumphant Tosca with Amarillo Opera.

Ms. Gash apprenticed with Austin Lyric Opera, Knoxville Opera, Virginia Opera, and Amarillo Opera.  At Opera in the Ozarks, she portrayed Suor Angelica, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, and, in her final year, as winner of a national scholarship, Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly.  Ms. Gash also sang Frasquita in Knoxville Opera’s production of Carmen, along with Fiordiligi in Carroll Freeman’s updated and clever 1960s hippie staging of Cosi fan tutte.  While at Virginia Opera, Ms. Gash covered the leading mainstage roles of Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, Liú in Puccini’s Turandot, and The Countess in Le nozze di Figaro.

Ms. Gash received her Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Arkansas under Professor Elaine Cencel.  Other previous musical mentors include Daniel Ferro, Juilliard Professor Emeritus, and Benton Hess, Eastman School of Music.  Ms. Gash currently studies with Valentin Peytchinov.

Elizabeth Gex, Viola

I am a multi-genre artist. The viola, in its diverse historical iterations, is my principal voice and I play and create with it in the following styles; classical, period instrument, flamenco, jazz, contemporary fusions and improvisations with visual artists and dancers.

I’m a lifelong learner (and teacher) of languages, a budding Spoken Word poet and, last but not least, a practicing ‘Lebenskünstlerin’ or artist of life. Which has the potential to be each person’s greatest work.

Elizabeth has received music degrees from Indiana University, Julliard, as well as a DMA from the State University at Stony Brook. She currently resides in Barcelona, Spain.