Musicians

Violin
· Brian Lewis, Concertmaster
· Brinna Brinkerhoff
· Aloysia Friedmann
· Jonathan Godfrey
· Andrés González
· Rachel Jordan
· Rasa Kalesnykaite
· Kana Kimura
· Maxine Kuo
· Tammy Linn
· Deborah Tien Price
· Oleg Sulyga
· Amy Thiaville

Viola
· Matt Dane
· Suzanne LeFevre
· Tawnya Popoff
· Lorento Golofeev

Cello
· Richard Belcher
· Julia Cleworth
· Erika Johnson
· Shino Hayashi

Bass
· Sandor Ostlund
· Erik Gronfor

Harp
· Mollie Marcuson

Flute/Piccolo
· Christina Jennings
· Jennifer Keeney

Oboe
· Alecia Lawyer

Clarinet
· Nathan Williams
· Maiko Sasaki

Bassoon
· Kristin Wolfe Jensen
· Daniel Chrisman

Horn
· Danielle Kuhlmann
· Gavin Reed

Trumpet
· Jens Lindemann
· Dan Shipman
· George Chase

Trombone
· Brian Logan

Percussion
· Matthew McClung

Piano
· Kimi Kawashima
· Rodney Waters

Shino Hayashi Instrument: Cello Originally from: Okaya, Japan Now reside in: Houston, TX Birthday: November 29

How did you get started? I started playing cello when I was 5 years old because both of my older brothers were already playing the cello. My oldest brother still plays with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony in Yokohama Japan.

What do you do when you’re not playing with ROCO? I perform in Houston and Japan and travel back to play there at least once or twice a year.

What are you listening to on your iPod? Arcanto String Quartet; Chet Baker Sings; anything João Gilberto.

Personal info: Married.

Interests outside music: Cooking, eating out, shopping, traveling, and spending time with my family!

Education: I attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo Japan where I received my bachelor’s degree; Southern Methodist University where I received an Artist Certificate and the University of Houston Moores School of Music where I received my Masters degree.

Bio: Born in Okaya Japan, Shino Hayashi began studying cello at the age of 5. She holds degrees from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston and an Artist Certificate from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Her principal teachers have included Keiko Matsunami, Ko Iwasaki, Christopher Adkins and Vagram Saradjian. She has preformed with Symphony orchestras throughout Japan and the United States including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and the Houston Grand Opera.

An avid chamber musician, Hayashi was a prize winner in the Ninth Annual Japan Chamber Music Competition and a recipient of the Ishikawa Music Academy Award. She regularly appears throughout Japan with acclaimed blind violinist Takayoshi Wanami and is a teaching assistant at his summer seminars for violin and chamber music. In Houston she has also been a guest on faculty recitals at the Moores School of Music, the Texas Music Festival and with the KUHF Chamber Ensemble at the Menil Collection Museum.