Youth Chamber Music Program

The Casa Romantica Youth Chamber Music Program provides structured classical chamber music training for students ages 12–17, offering young musicians the opportunity to deepen their technical skills and musical understanding through small-ensemble performance modeled after collegiate chamber programs.

Under the instruction of experienced performers and educators from the Romantica Piano Quartet, students receive professional-level mentorship while developing ensemble skills, musical interpretation, and collaborative discipline. Instruction is led by two professional chamber musicians.

Participants rehearse weekly on Mondays from 5:30–7:00 PM at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens. In addition to weekly instruction, students gain meaningful performance experience through concerts at Casa Romantica events and community venues, fostering confidence, artistic growth, and public engagement.

The program emphasizes artistic excellence, mentorship, and access to high-quality music education, supporting the development of the next generation of classical musicians.

Current Roster

Lullaby Anderson
Nathan Elliot
Mikayla Ho
Sylvia McKean
Henry Reynolds
Vanna Zargarian

Upcoming Events

Free Family Sundays
Sunday, March 1 from 10 AM – 2 PM | Performance Times: 10:30 AM, 11 AM
Free and open to the public
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Classical Concert: Youth Chamber Music Program Recital
Thursday, May 28 at 7 PM
$10 ($5 Members)
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Instructors

Adriana Triggs, violin

Adriana Triggs is founder and violinist of Romantica Piano Quartet, Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens’ first chamber music ensemble in residence. She has had the pleasure of playing in such groups as the Mozart Classical Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Choir, Musishare Chamber Players, Golden State Pops Orchestra, Sinfonia at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival, Blackbird Music Project and others. She has served as a guest artist faculty member at the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra and taught at The Orange County High School of the Arts. Most of her time is spent teaching her private violin students from her home studio in Mission Viejo, CA. She teaches students of all ages and levels from the Capistrano, Saddleback, and Irvine Unified School Districts. Her students have gone off to major in Violin Performance, have been accepted to the Orange County High School of the Arts and have also been accepted to the following performing groups: Orange County Youth Symphony, Musishare Young Artists Program Quartet Initiative, Casa Romantica Youth Chamber Music Program, Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings, Prelude Chamber Strings, Southern California Youth Philharmonic, CYOSC, Capistrano Unified School Districts Honor Orchestras and Irvine Unified School District Honor Orchestras.

Kevin Garnica, piano

Kevin Garnica is an active musician based in Los Angeles. He is the pianist in the Romantica Piano  Quartet, Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens’ first chamber music ensemble in residence. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in Central and South America, Europe, and throughout the United States. Garnica received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Texas at Austin with a full assistantship under the tutelage of Anne Epperson, specializing in Collaborative Piano. Garnica was one of the youngest ever winners of the ASCAP Composition Competition when his piano piece, Sonata for Scriabin, was chosen from over five hundred entries.
Kevin Garnica has performed with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, including Concertmaster Martin Chalifour, the Pacific Symphony, The Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and Pacific Chorale.