Murrieta Valley High School Graduation 2018 Performing Arts Center
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Brad Allen
Brad Allen is a electric current graduate student working towards an Yard.Thousand. in Choral Conducting at BCCM. Since earning his B.M. in Music Educational activity from CSULB, Brad has taught high school choir in the Murrieta Valley Unified School District for the past six years, the last 4 of which have been spent at his alma mater, Murrieta Valley High School. The choirs at MVHS tour annually throughout the nation and pride themselves on their power to perform diverse repertoire at a loftier level.
Before returning to his studies, Brad held the position of Music Managing director at Grace Presbyterian Church building in Temecula for iii years, directing the Chancel Choir and leading the praise team on vocals and guitar. As a vocalist, Brad performed with Riverside City College when they won the Mixed Choir Division at the Eisteddfod Choral Competition in Wales. While singing with the BCCM Sleeping room Choir, Brad sang at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Segerstrom Hall, Staples Heart, and PETCO Park, with highly acclaimed artists such equally Eric Whitacre, The Rolling Stones, Kronos Quartet, and the Marker Morris Dance Grouping.
Brad was born in Long Beach, raised in Murrieta, and currently resides in Seal Embankment with his married woman, Jeannine.
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Ethan Blankfeld
Growing upward in Las Vegas, Nevada his entire life, Ethan Blankfeld earned his bachelor's caste in Music Education at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There he studied clarinet nether Dr. Marina Sturm besides as performed with the Grammy nominated UNLV Wind Orchestra under the management of Thomas Leslie. During that time Ethan recorded 2 albums playing in the Wind Orchestra including 24 Karat Gould and Quaternity.
In his last year equally an undergrad, Ethan became Drum Major of the UNLV Star of Nevada Marching Band where he directed the band throughout the form of the football game season. Ethan's ensemble playing has brought him all over the country equally well as the world. His senior yr of high school, Ethan traveled to Barcelona and Zaragoza, Spain where he soloed in earth-grade concert halls.
Ethan is currently a first-yr master's student studying Current of air Band Conducting nether Dr. Jermie Arnold and Professor John Carnahan. He hopes to get his DMA in Air current Ring Conducting before condign the Manager of Bands at a University.
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Martin Bui
Martin Bui is a showtime-year Master of Music student in Percussion Studies at the BCCM and is originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance from the Academy of Alberta where he studied with Brian Jones from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he began subbing with the ESO, and has also shared the phase with ensembles such equally the Edmonton Youth Orchestra, Imperial Canadian Artillery Band, and Concordia Academy of Edmonton Orchestra. That same year, he likewise won runner-upwards in the University of Alberta Concerto Competition, competing with William Kraft's Concerto No. one for Timpani and Orchestra.
Martin has as well enjoyed a storied iv-year career with his country-stone band, Heartland, and has played rodeos, dancehalls, bars, and farms throughout central Alberta.
Martin'due south main bookish interest is timpani—his senior recital featured Werner Thärichen's timpani concerto, so he hopes to focus his projection study on a timpani piece that will be featured on his recital. He has too greatly enjoyed playing drum kit for various punk, rock, metal, jazz, and same country bands.
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Stephanie Faria-Kropp
Stephanie Faria-Kropp is a master's student pursuing her degree in Music Education at the BCCM.
Originally from Tulare, CA, Stephanie completed her Bachelor of Music Education and Clarinet Performance from California Land University, Long Embankment.
She regularly plays with community orchestras and is currently enlisted in the United States Army Reserve Band stationed in Bell, CA.
Stephanie has a strong interest in psychology and performance anxiety in uncomplicated instrumental musicians, and currently teaches K-5 instrumental music for the Long Beach Unified School District.
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Corey Highberg
Corey Highberg is from Thousand Oaks, CA and is currently pursuing his Primary of Arts in Music History at the BCCM. Corey'southward inquiry is devoted to exploring the sociological connections of music history, including oral, written, and digital transmission of culture through sound. His recent thesis topics include the "social use value" and tactile experience of recorded music, specifically the vinyl record and its affect on modern economical and social environments. He maintains an online blog and performs regularly throughout Southern California singing, playing upright and electric bass, guitar, and piano. He teaches at Guitar Center in Westlake Village and tutors in upright bass for the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony.
Corey earned his B.S. in Musicology from UCSB with a focus on Eastern Mediterranean Music and Um Kulthum, though he has additional study experience in the Early Music of the Soviet Union. His current areas of interest include early on written music of the belatedly Centre Ages and the connectedness between evolutions of music manual innovations and its impact on societal evolution.
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Bennett Imai
Bennett Kai Imai (he/him), from Mission Viejo, is currently pursuing an M.Thou. in Oboe Performance. Bennett earned his B.1000 in Oboe from UCSC, studying with Kyle Bruckmann, with a Small in Electronic Music. During his time, he served equally Principal Oboist for UCSC's University Orchestra and Air current Ensemble, as well equally Bedroom Ensembles. He has had the honor of performing Albinoni's Concerto in D minor (Op. 2, No. 9) with the orchestra and is a winner of the Music Department's Scholarship Competition.
His favorite type of music to play are 20th- and 21st-century works. He advocates for the creation and functioning of contemporary pieces and specially for supporting living composers of classical music. He composed a piece for the University Woodwind Quintet and a Musical number which was performed by the pupil staff of the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival, under the direction of Octavio Más-Arocas. Bennett is interested in finding new ways to integrate modernistic genres and technology with classical instruments. Equally a fan of electronic music and product, he equanimous, filmed, and edited a piece for oboe and electronics for his Senior Recital.
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Cameron Johnston
Cameron Johnston, from Torrance, California, is a composer and musician specializing in electronic music and experimental functioning practices. He earned his available'due south in Music Limerick from CSULB where he studied composition, primarily with Dr. Martin Herman. He currently serves equally Director of the CSULB New Music Ensemble and is the assistant director of the CSULB Laptop Ensemble. He is working towards his Master of Music in Composition with Interactive Media at CSULB.
Cameron oft performs with his laptop ensemble, Pile of Wires, where he has performed original works in the Los Angeles area and in New York City. He enjoys collaborating and frequently composes and works for filmmakers and choreographers. Additionally, he performs with the SynthLab musician and composer collective based in Long Embankment, recently having performed in virtual concerts. He is currently working on his 2nd opera featuring but electronics for the accompaniment and an anthology with his group Pile of Wires.
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Kimmie Levin
Kimmie Levin is a violinist from Rancho Santa Margarita, California. She is pursuing her Principal of Music in violin performance at the Bob Cole Conservatory at CSULB, studying nether Professor Henri Gronnier and Dr. Moni Simeonov. She is also a violin and viola teacher at a music schoolhouse in Irvine where she works with students of a variety of ages, abilities, and learning styles.
Kimmie was Assistant to the Director of String Studies at Chapman Academy, where she studied with Professor William Fitzpatrick and received her Bachelor of Music in violin performance in 2016. She has since performed in cord quartets, orchestras, operas, popular concerts, musicals, and movie scores in southern California.
When she'due south not practicing, she loves to play videogames on her Nintendo Switch with her puppies, Wilson and Morty.
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John Garo Lonergan
John Garo Lonergan is a Canadian-American pianist raised near San Francisco, California. He began studying the pianoforte at age 6 and completed his bachelor's in Functioning at the BCCM, where he is currently pursuing his master'due south under the tutelage of Craig Richey.
John has participated in lessons and masterclasses with artists such as Yoheved Kaplinsky, Frederic Chiu, Suzanne Goyette, and Vitali Gavrouc. He has performed in Canada, Ireland, and extensively across the U.s.a. with renowned ensembles such every bit Santa Clara Vanguard. In early on 2018, John composed a string quartet titled Nouveau Quatuor which was premiered past members of the San Francisco Symphony. More recently, John received 2nd Prize in the MTNA California Young Artist Functioning Competition of October 2020. His musical influences include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Tigran Hamasyan, and Jacob Collier. In addition to music, John is passionate about fitness, food, travel, and languages; he speaks English, French, Spanish, and Armenian.
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Jacob Lythgoe
Trumpet player Jacob Lythgoe has been described by one of his mentors as having "a drive and tenacity that take been intense and relentless, yielding tremendous progress." Jacob has experienced success in a diversity of functioning settings including being a semifinalist at the National Trumpet Competition performing with the top vi trumpet ensembles in the nation. He and participated in several summertime music festivals including The Sewanee Summer Music Festival, the Montecito International Music Festival, and Ryan Darke's Trumpet Frontwards. Nigh recently, Jacob accepted a position on the Tucson Symphony Orchestra substitute listing.
Jacob start excelled in music in the marching arts, spending three summer tours with The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps. While there, he developed a strong piece of work ethic and leadership abilities as a lead trumpet, soloist, and section leader. He was besides a fellow member of the 2016 All American Marching Band, a program that accustomed best high school marching musicians in the country to perform at the Usa Army All American Basin. He went on to march with the 2017 undefeated DCI World Champions the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps.
While his marching days are over, Jacob dedicates much of his time to marching arts education. He was the visual caption caput and trumpet teacher at Rincon University Loftier Schoolhouse in Tucson, Arizona from 2016-2020. He enjoys watching his students amend both every bit performers and as people.
Jacob graduated from the Fred Fox School of Music at the Academy of Arizona in 2020 with his available's in Trumpet Performance. He studied with Ryan Darke, Principal Trumpet of the LA Opera, and Jason Carder, Yanni's solo trumpeter. He is currently pursuing his master'due south in Trumpet Performance with Ryan Darke at California State University Long Beach.
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Michael McKenzie
Michael McKenzie is a national honor-winning usher, active social justice advocate, and music educator, whose work centers around the power that choral music has to touch social change. Michael, originally from Belchertown, Massachusetts, is pursuing their M.Thou. in Choral Conducting at the BCCM and is a educational activity assistant for the University Choir.
Exterior of school, he serves as Artistic Director for Voices for Social Justice, a nonprofit system that combines social activism with artistic expression through functioning, resources, and advancement, and as Managing director of Music Ministries at North Hollywood Commencement United Methodist Church.
Prior to coming to California, Michael was the founder and managing director of ii social justice choirs at Gustavus Adolphus Higher. For their work as manager of the Gustavus Social Justice Choir, Michael earned 2nd place in The American Prize for Choral Conducting'Community Division and an invitation to present a concert at the 2020 Nobel Conference. Michael graduated from Gustavus Adolphus Higher, summa cum laude, in 2019 with a B.A. in Music Education and certification in M-12 song, instrumental, and classroom music.
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Jasmine Mangal
Soprano Jasmine Mangal is from Modesto, CA and has been noted for "performances with strong vocal range and stamina" by The Daily Titan. Her professionalism and compassion for music inspires creativity and welcomes life into her art.
Miss Mangal has a solid performance groundwork with diverse appearances. Her most recent performances was with LA Opera'southward Community and Education partition equally Pam in The Magic Dream, a children'due south rendition of Mozart's Dice Zauberflöte. Several other roles include include Lucy in The Threepenny Opera, Madame Galwari in Lehar'due south The Merry Wife, Adele in Strauss' Dice Fledermaus, Madame Silberkland in Mozart'due south Die Schauspieldirektor, and Mabel in Pirates of Penzance.
Jasmine recently completed her available's degree in Vocal Performance at Cal State Academy Fullerton's School of Music, where she studied with Janet Smith. She won 1st place in the American Soloist Competition and is a member of the international professional co-ed music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon. Her mentor, Marty Stark, has profoundly influenced her understanding and navigation of the innumerable aspects of professional opera. She is a student of Shigemi Matsumoto and is currently completing a M.Thousand. with an emphasis in Opera Performance.
At the BCCM Jasmine hopes to continue to build a solid career in opera and the performing arts.
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Angela Marvin
Angela Marvin is currently earning her master'southward degree in Cello Performance at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. Originally from Moorpark, CA, she earned her B.One thousand. in Cello Functioning from both Moorpark Higher and the BCCM.
She currently performs as a member of American Youth Symphony and coaches center school cellists around Los Angeles county through their community appointment programme, Share-A-Stand.
Angela is currently nether the tutelage of Dr. David Garrett; her by teachers include Joon Sung Joon, Dr. Yoshika Masuda, and Dr. Ashley Walters.
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Michael Neufeld
Michael Neufeld is a principal'due south educatee at the BCCM studying jazz. He grew upwards in Fresno, California earlier moving to Southern California for music.
Michael graduated in Spring, 2021 from USC's Thornton School of Music with a degree in Jazz Studies and a minor in Classics. His senior recital resulted in a blend of these 2 bookish interests, as he wrote many of the songs he performed based on elements from ancient Athenian drama and mythology.
Michael has performed with the Bob Mintzer Big Band and has played lead trombone in the Thornton Jazz Orchestra while studying under teachers such as Andy Martin, Jason Goldman, and Michael Stever. He has likewise been a part of the Thornton Community Appointment Program, which seeks to bring music education access to Los Angeles public schools.
Outside of his jazz interests, Michael performs self-arranged trombone covers of songs from popular animes on YouTube. He also has accomplished a level of success and popularity on TikTok.
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Apostolia Nikouli
Apostolia Nikouli earned her diploma in choral conducting in her native Greece, receiving high honors. She completed her master'due south in Musicology from Aristotle Academy of Thessaloniki, where she conducted the Athens City Symphony Orchestra and the Thessaloniki Urban center Symphony Orchestra premiering contemporary pieces in cooperation with Aristotle University's contemporary music lab. In 2017 she was Chief Conductor of the children's choir at the Cosmic Church of Thessaloniki and from 2019-2020 she was banana conductor for the Thessaloniki Metropolis Symphony Orchestra and North Higher Choir under the guidance of Athanasia Kyriakidou.
Apostolia's neat interest in inquiry led her to complete her final master's thesis, I. Stravinsky, Symphony in C, Analytical and aesthetic approach in the context of Neoclassicism, under the supervision of Dr. Konstantinos Chardas. She too contributed to a paper on behalf of the Hellenic Musicology Society, entitled Rephrase the tradition: The multifaceted role of symmetry in Symphony in C (1938-1940) of Igor Stravinsky.
Currently she conducts the Bob Cole Conservatory Symphony Orchestra while working toward her master's in orchestral conducting at the BCCM under the guidance of Dr. Johannes Müller Stosch.
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Tanner Olivas
Tanner Olivas is a saxophonist, arranger, composer, and multi-instrumentalist originally from the modest urban center of Hanford in California's Central Valley. He received his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from CSULB in 2018 where he studied saxophone with Sal Lozano and James Barrera, and was mentored by Dr. Raymond Torres-Santos. During his undergraduate studies, he performed in the Concert Jazz Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Saxophone Ensemble, Clarinet Choir, and Jazz Combos.
Before first his graduate studies, Tanner was freelancing and education woodwinds in the greater Los Angeles area with a studio of over 35 students. In early 2020 he was hired to play alto saxophone and bout the U.s.a. with The Glenn Miller Orchestra. After performing in just nine of the States the bout was cutting short by the pandemic.
Tanner is currently the lead alto saxophonist in the Concert Jazz Orchestra, a fellow member of the Vanguard Jazz Combo, University Saxophone Quartet, Saxophone Octet, and Saxophone Ensemble. He is the Graduate Assistant for the Jazz Studies Department, a KJZZ Scholarship recipient, and Boyfriend and Jo French republic Graduate Jazz Studies Scholarship recipient pursuing his Master of Music caste with a concentration in Jazz Studies.
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Josh Olson
Josh Olson is a Master of Music student in Horn Performance at the BCCM. Currently he is the graduate student assistant for Dr. Shannon Zusman, the BCCM graduate advisor, equally well as a member of the University Wind Quintet. He studies with Jenny Kim, Associate Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Opera.
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Josh holds a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance from Missouri State University where he studied with Dr. Lisa Casey. During his time, he besides studied near with Andrew Bain, Chief Horn of the Los Angeles Combo, while participating in the Invested Musician Main Courses.
During his time at Missouri Country University, Josh performed at CBDNA, MMEA, Kauffman Hall, and the Fanfare at a Dallas Winds concert. Outside of his academy ensembles, Josh became a rehearsal substitute for the Missouri Philharmonic and performed as Assistant Horn with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Josh was too a fellow member of the mellophone department for the 2018 Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps.
Outside of music, Josh enjoys scuba diving, riding his bike, and spending time with his fiancée.
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Maria Peñaloza
Maria Peñaloza is a master'south pupil pursuing her degree in violin performance. Maria completed her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance in 2020 at the BCCM where she studied with Andrea Byers, a pupil of Ivan Galamian. She performed with the BCCM Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Johannes Müller Stosch, and the New Music Ensemble, directed by Alan Shockley.
Existence a violin pupil at the Bob Cole Conservatory is an exhilarating and empowering experience. She loves the rigorous academic culture, musicianship, and fellowship that is cultivated here through the leadership of Dr. Stosch and violin studies manager, Moni Simeonov.
She co-founded the Viva Learning Center in Lakewood, CA, where she teaches music classes. She also teaches privately and freelances in the Los Angeles and Orangish canton areas. Maria'southward ultimate goal is to establish music studios for families in disadvantaged areas.
Maria knows the road to violin mastery continues to help her overcome limiting perspectives, to larn higher thinking, and to obtain freedom, leading to a more enriching life for her and everyone she teaches.
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Maura Phelps
Maura Phelps is an Thou.M. candidate studying Cello Operation with Dr. David Garrett. Originally from Washington land, she pursued a B.M. in Instrumental Functioning and Music Therapy at Western Michigan University every bit a Rhea Yeager Fetzer Scholar. While there, she served as the associate and assistant principal cellist in the Holland Symphony Orchestra working under BCCM's own Johannes Müller Stosch. Additionally, she worked as the Academy Symphony librarian and played in the Advanced Jazz Ensemble, which performed at the 2020 Jazz Pedagogy Network conference in New Orleans. In 2018, she was awarded the William and Fiona Denny scholarship. The following year was voted by music kinesthesia as the elevation senior and was named the Presidential Scholar for the School of Music, graduating summa cum laude.
In improver to performing and pedagogy, Maura completed music therapy clinical piece of work in the Kalamazoo community. Following graduation, she completed her internship at the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital where she worked as a full-time music therapist and treatment team member. In Baronial 2020, she earned her MT-BC credential and is a lath-certified music therapist.
Maura is passionate near her work every bit a cellist and music therapist and continues to explore how the ii interact with and benefit one another. She has had the pleasure of working with many professors from DePaul University, Boston Conservatory, Cincinnati Higher Conservatory, and Juilliard, amidst others. She currently teaches privately and works to use her music therapy training to provide a learning environment which is attainable to any and all abilities.
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Kris Rahamad
Kris Rahamad is a Los Angeles-based performer-composer attending CSULB for his M.M. in Composition. He performs and composes in new music ensembles, collaborating with artists such as Alvin Lucier and the Ever Nowadays Orchestra, and Ulrich Krieger. During his undergraduate studies at California Institute of the Arts, Kris'southward master teachers were Nicholas Deyoe, Andrew McIntosh, Ulrich Krieger, Vinny Golia, and Mark Menzies.
Kris fabricated his international debut as a co-composer and soloist for the theatrical production Pomegranate Jam, a feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Persephone, goddess of the underworld. The production premiered in the 2013 Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, receiving rave reviews: "a gorgeous, ghostly original score, from composer David Aguila and violinist Kris Rahamad, serves activeness amend than any dialogue or narration e'er could." (Fest Magazine, Great britain).
Kris returned to Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 where he was the musical arranger for Gunshot Medley, a theater production that follows the spirits of African American slaves equally they face the racial oppressions from the civil war through the electric current BLM movement. His current projects include commissions from soloist/trumpeter Lucas Lipari-Mayer of Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, and local violinist Alisa Luera.
Kris'southward compositions are inspired by Bizarre forms and 20th-Century Classical styles. At CSULB, he is currently composing a multi-movement passacaglia for sleeping accommodation orchestra and choir, where he is researching Alfred Schnittke's polystylism and the Bizarre passacaglia. Through these styles, he is exploring his Colombian heritage past including musical elements from Colombian music inside the passacaglia.
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Darita Seth
Principal of Music in Choral Conducting candidate, Darita Seth, was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. Darita is founder, president, and director of Choral Audacity, Director of Music at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Acquaintance Director of the Danville Girls Chorus, an Acquaintance Director of the Cantabella Children's Chorus, and a former Interim Managing director of the Grammy Accolade-winning Pacific Boychoir Academy. He concluded his tenure with Chanticleer, the Grammy Award-winning, San Francisco-based men's vocal ensemble in 2016.
Equally a Sigma Alpha Iota distinguished member, he periodically appears equally a guest soloist with the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, sounding Light Chamber Choir, RSVP, and the Saringhimig Singers. Darita attended Capital letter University, where he received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Functioning. He is as well a proud alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Army camp, where he participated in the composition, opera, and choral programs.
Praised for his "technical deliciousness, ability and precision of the connection between the colors of the voice, and beauty of commitment" (Aspen Music Festival), Darita has been featured in performances of masterworks including Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Durufle's Requiem, and Handel's Messiah. Additionally, he has recorded with AireBorn Studios, featuring his voice on premiere perusal recordings. He has performed in many notable international concert venues including Musikverein in Vienna, Endler Hall in South Africa, The National Concert Hall in Taipei, and The Esplanade in Singapore
He has been a invitee speaker at conferences presenting topics such equally: Nurturing and Embracing Ethnic Diversity Inside the Choral Ensemble, Mysteries of the Countertenor Vocalisation, and How to Change Your Church's Singing Civilisation. Outside music and didactics, Darita enjoys cooking meals from his proud Cambodian American heritage, weightlifting, and beingness a dog-dad to his rescue, Remy Martin.
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Ashley Shahbazi
Ashley Shahbazi is currently pursuing her Grand.K. in Piano Functioning at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, under the tutelage of Professor Craig Richey.
A native of Southern California, Ashley earned her B.F.A. in Picture show Production from Chapman Academy while studying piano with Dr. Janice Park. She has placed in competitions and festivals through MTAC and CAPMT, including first identify in her commune'southward CAPMT Contemporary Competition.
Ashley is a recipient of the Keyboard Foundation scholarship at the BCCM and serves every bit Vice President for the collegiate chapter of the Music Teacher's National Clan at CSULB. Other notable past teachers include Professor Mona Wu DeCesare and Marlene Feldman.
Ashley currently teaches piano and violin privately in the LA and Orangish County areas.
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Rudy Silva
Rudy Silva is completing his Grand.M. in Music Teaching. Originally from Indio, CA, he earned both his B.M. in Clarinet Operation and Music Teaching degrees at the BCCM. In 2008, Mr. Silva was awarded the very first Bob Cole scholarship at his archway audition. During his undergraduate studies, clarinetist Dr. Michael Grego was his private studio teacher. Rudy as well performed with the BCCM Current of air Symphony, under the direction of Mr. John Carnahan, and the BCCM Symphony Orchestra, nether the direction of Dr. Johannes Müller Stosch.
Mr. Silva is currently the band and orchestra director at Granada Middle School in Whittier, CA. During his second year of pedagogy, he was awarded the Teacher of the Yr Honour, and most recently, he was presented with the "Ascent Star Award" at the 2020 Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association music briefing. Mr. Silva's ensembles have earned Unanimous Superior ratings for two years in a row at the annual Whittier Expanse SCSBOA music festival, held at Whittier High School. Mr. Silva has attended many music conferences to further develop his passion for didactics, including the American String Teachers Association briefing, Midwest Clinic, SCSBOA conference, and the California All-State Music Education Conference.
Later completion of his M.1000. Arts degree in Music Pedagogy, Mr. Silva hopes to go along his career in public school music education and further inspire young musicians to pursue their passion for playing music.
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Zachary Spiess
Zachary Spiess is a first-year Master of Music educatee in trumpet performance. Currently he is the graduate student assistant for the BCCM trumpet studio and studies trumpet with Professor Ryan Darke of the Los Angeles Opera. Zachary grew up in rural Casa Grande, Arizona and is very excited to motility to Long Embankment in the future.
He holds a Available of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from Arizona Land University where he studied with David Hickman, Josef Burgstaller, and Benny Nguyen of the Phoenix Symphony.
In addition to the numerous ensembles he performed with during his studies at Arizona State University, Zachary became a substitute trumpet player for the Tucson Symphony. He has likewise participated in the Oberlin Trumpet Workshop, the Rafael Mendez Brass Constitute, Trumpet Frontward, and the Eastern Music Festival.
When not diving into his orchestral studies, Zachary likes to get for hikes and produce his own music. He looks forward to making music with his colleagues when we have in-person instruction again!
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Grace Stewart
Grace Stewart is a mezzo-soprano from Yucaipa, California pursuing her G.M. in Opera Performance at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. She studies with Shigemi Matsumoto, is a recipient of the Pritchard Scholarship, and is working equally a pupil banana for the Opera Plant and the Music and Film course.
Grace earned her B.A. in Environmental Analysis from Claremont McKenna College in 2017. During her tenure in Claremont, she studied voice with Dr. Anne Harley and sang in choirs directed by Dr. Charles Kamm. In the class of her undergraduate studies, Grace received a DAAD scholarship for a summer linguistic communication course in Berlin, Germany, she presented a solo recital at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, and she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
Grace has also studied privately with Patricia Gee, and she is a member of the Inland Main Chorale under the direction of Dr. Joseph Modica. She has been featured as alto soloist for Haydn's Paukenmesse and she has performed in choirs, backing upward Josh Groban and Irish band The Chieftains. Grace has worked during the holidays for The Desert Carolers and she has served in various church choir department leader roles.
Passionate about a multifariousness of performing arts, Grace grew up playing pianoforte, dancing ballet, and performing in community musical theater productions and is excited to build her opera portfolio hither at the BCCM. Upon completion of her degree, she hopes to perform opera, musical theater, and concert repertoire. Her long-term goal is to earn her DMA and work as a music educator.
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Darya Voronina
Darya Voronina is pursuing her chief'south caste in violin performance under the tutelage of Moni Simeonov at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. She earned her B.One thousand. in violin performance from California Land University, Sacramento in Bound 2020.
Darya enjoys teaching violin and music theory to children ages v and up, as well as playing violin and viola at weddings or symphony orchestras in North California. In June 2019, she was a member of a string quartet at the MIM Festival in Grass Valley, California. In February 2019, she won the Saturday Club Scholarship at the Sacramento Country School of Music.
For the by 5 years, Darya has been teaching violin and music theory, every bit well every bit giving presentations at Strings' summer festivals in local churches.
Born and raised in Saint-Petersburg, Russian federation, Darya enjoys visiting her hometown, as well as reading books and walking in nature.
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Cameron Westmoreland
Cameron Westmoreland, a native of Southern California, is a composer and musician whose main instrument is saxophone. He earned his bachelor'due south degree in Music with a concentration in Composition, with honors, from the University of California, Riverside. He is currently is pursuing a Main of Music degree in Composition at the BCCM.
While at UCR, Cameron studied limerick with Dr. Ian Dicke and Dr. Dana Kaufman and has written many works that have been professionally performed, ranging from a Micro Opera, to a Flute Duet, a Sax Quartet, and a multi-motion work for Pierrot Ensemble, to proper name a few. He recently had a World Premiere of his wind ensemble limerick The Jester'js Palace performed by the UCR Concert Band in June of 2021. Cameron is a four-time recipient of the Marius de Brabant Music Scholarship and has performed in many groups and ensembles, as well as being a founding fellow member of a jazz quartet. He has also attended masterclasses at UCR by celebrated television/film composer and jazz instrumentalist, Jeff Beal, accomplished jazz trumpeter and current director of the Count Basie Orchestra, Scotty Barnhart, and renowned jazz saxophonist, Matt Otto, with whom Cameron has as well performed in concert.
Currently, Cameron performs with the BCCM Studio Jazz Band under the direction of Jeff Jarvis and works in the music department as an Instructional Student Assistant for Dr. Roger Hickman. He is currently studying Composition with Dr. Raymond Torres-Santos.
Cameron's works are influenced by his studies of jazz music, while besides putting a twist on mutual classical techniques. When writing, he tends towards pushing tonal music to its limits, while also keeping the music enjoyable to heed to and perform. Being both a composer and a performer has profoundly influenced his personal compositional vocalism.
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Michele Yamamoto
Built-in and raised in Southern California, Michele Yamamoto is an M.A. student in Musicology with a research interest in the roles that pop music plays in the development of cognition, self-identity, cultural identity, and other conceptual social frameworks. She is especially interested in arts justice, and in the fashion music and sounds enter and evolve within marginalized communities. She is a recipient of the Cole Scholarship at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music.
Michele holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music History from UCLA where her research focused on fabricated markers of authenticity in popular music, working closely on several projects with Dr. Robert Fink. During her time at UCLA, she contributed to Under the Radar Mag as a writer and to UCLA Radio as a reporter. Before transferring to UCLA, she was a member of the Cypress College Song Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Kate Reid. Her showtime instrument was the violin.
Michele is currently the Manager of Alumni and Parent Relations at the Colburn Schoolhouse in downtown Los Angeles where she develops resource, programming, and appointment opportunities for families and old students. In her former life, she worked in talent management with athletes and brands before turning to not-profit and instruction work. Most recently, she supported fundraising and events at the Brooklyn Solarium of Music every bit their development associate, and prior to that, she worked as a graduate student advisor for the Musicology program at the UCLA Herb Alpert Schoolhouse of Music.
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