Sinfonietta Arts

David Cowen, cello and piano, is a founding member of the Sinfonietta Arts Chamber Ensemble. He currently plays in the Northwestern Medical Orchestra and prior to that, he played in the Skokie Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as a chamber music and symphonic cellist at numerous venues in the Chicago area, including the Art Institute, Arie Crown Theater, First National Bank, Chicago and Skokie Public Libraries, Unity Temple of Oak Park, St. James Cathedral, the Unitarian Church of Evanston, St. Elizabeth of Glencoe, Moody Bible Church, Skokie Theatre Music Foundation, Tzedek Chicago (Kol Nidre soloist on Yom Kippur for the past 4 years), Temple Menorah (where he was Kol Nidre soloist on Yom Kippur for over 20 years), Temple Judea Mitzpah, Chicago Botanic Gardens, and the Morton Arboretum. He has also been broadcast on radio and television. David has studied cello with Alan Harris, Karl Fruh, and Jerry Grossman, played in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and was a scholarship student of Aldo Parisot at Yale University. David studied piano with Lillian Rubenstein-Boguslawsky and Catherine Sauer Smith.

Nataliya Chernysh began studying violin and piano at age 6 in Ukraine. Nataliya’s Bachelor's and Master's Degree studies were in Musical College in Kyiv( Bachelor’s degree) and Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music (violin and chamber music Masters degree). She has won National Musical Competitions and worked as a Chamber ensemble instructor at Musical College in Kyiv. Nataliya served as concertmaster with the Symphony Orchestra of the State Theatre, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and Ukraine Chamber Orchestra. She was a piano and violin instructor for 7 years in Ukraine. Since moving to the United States, she has continued her career as a musician. She has played in various orchestras in Chicago. For the past 10 years, she has worked as a private instructor in violin and piano, music theory, and music history in Naperville. She is a member of the Illinois State Music Teachers Association and Naperville Music Teachers Association.

Elizabeth Romanyuk, sixteen, daughter of Natalia Chernysh, is a junior at Naperville Central High School. Elizabeth began studying violin and piano at age 6 with her mother Nataliya. At age 10 she started piano lessons with Ludmila Turkalo. She was a winner twice in the piano category of the Walgreens National Concerto Competition. At age 12 she started violin lessons with Igor Antipov. She is currently a member of the Midwest Young Artists Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Elizabeth has been a finalist of the Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition. She received an honorable mention for piano in the DuPage Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Audition and Honorable Mentions for strings in the Walgreens National Concerto Competition.