Zeyn and Rhyan Schweyk have been playing classical piano since 5, composing since 8, performing publicly since 9, and teaching music to all ages since 12, all while taking weekly private lessons with professional teachers and professors.
The talented brothers aspire to spread classical music to especially attract the youth to it, and to share with everyone its immense beauties and everlasting benefits. Their unique musical passion and societal contributions have inspired countless youngsters, and adults alike, to further appreciate the genre and/or play an instrument.
The duo enjoys a vast repertoire of some of the most beautiful pieces of the greatest composers from all eras, can play from memory or improvise for hours, and perform frequently at various known venues and notable functions. Popular works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, and Debussy are only some of the favorites they play.
They have already had numerous concerts and hundreds of performances on all types of stages, both domestically and abroad, collaborated with various chamber music groups, won many composition and performance competitions including a two-piano Bach concerto that they debuted at the Lobero Theatre in May ’22, earned several widely recognized accolades and awards at the state and national levels, and have been featured in different publications, and on television and radio stations.
In addition to having performed nationally, in Europe and Central America, and to being essential accordionists and keyboardists in a UCSB Ethnomusicology Ensemble, for its traditional quarterly concerts at Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall since 2017, the boys are also regulars in their hometown at favorite restaurants, wineries, hotels, music clubs, plazas, and retirement homes. Besides their exceptional love for classical music, entertaining, and giving back to their community so generously at their young age, Zeyn and Rhyan also have a special passion and talent for sciences that enables them to contribute even more to society.
The siblings graduated high school in 2022, after each attaining, with also perfect GPAs, two different engineering disciplines and two associate degrees in science and arts.
They are currently in their junior year at The Peabody Institute of Music and Johns Hopkins University, studying music, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, with a focus in entrepreneurship/management (Zeyn), and music and biomedical engineering, with a focus in immunoengineering (Rhyan). They aspire to make a larger impact in the world by innovating new technologies that combine classical music with applied sciences to make robotic prosthetics and to find new ways to treat as many medical and neurological conditions as possible.
While in college, they have also been interning at different reputable universities and organizations, in the defense and public sectors, researching and working on exciting engineering projects requiring advanced math, physics, chemistry, and computer science.