Opus 25
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Thousand Oaks Philharmonic Opus 25

Tickets: If you would like to reserve tickets, please click here to send a reservation request by email.

    Performance #1: FREE

    Performance #2: Tickets will be on sale in the lobby of the theatre, not the box office, one hour prior to the event.

    $20 general / $10 senior & student

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Performers and Their Pieces

The CWOTO Orchestra - Opus 18 Concert will be conducted by Eimear Noone. 

Eimear recently moved from Ireland and is now a resident of Burbank .  She is a trained flutist, a composer, arranger and conductor.  She works in the music studios in Hollywood and teaches conducting at UCLA.  We are pleased that she agreed to lead this concert.

For more information on our guest conductor, click here.

Claudine Yee, fourteen, was awarded valedictorian from Portola Highly Gifted Magnet Middle School. She is now a freshman at Harvard Westlake High School where she participates in the school orchestra.  Her former violin teacher was Joyce Osborn, and she is currently a student of Shuwei Liu. Her musical experience and awards include being in the LAUSD Honors Orchestra where she performed several times at the Kodak Theater. In 2002, she won the LACESMA music scholarship. In 2005, she was the recipient of the 31^st District PTSA music scholarship. She was the single invited guest soloist to the 31^st District PTSA annual awards ceremony. She was also the recipient of the Clarice Chaplin music scholarship. She has won numerous awards at the Southwestern Youth Music Festival for four consecutive years. She has passed the Advanced Level CM program with honors. She is the recipient of the Leni Fe Bland Foundation scholarship. She is the winner of the MTAC Conejo Branch CWOTO competition. In addition to the violin, Claudine enjoys playing the flute.

Julie Wang is currently in the 9^th grade at Oak Park High School in Oak Park, California where she is the 1^st chair flutist in the wind ensemble.  She began playing the flute at age eight and studied with Barbara Nakazawa in Massachusetts.  Julie has been studying with Toby Caplan-Stonefield in Westlake Village, California since 2005.

 Prior to moving to California, Julie auditioned into Jr. MYWE (Jr. Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble which is sponsored by the New England Conservatory of Music), the Interlochen summer program in Michigan, and Camp Encore-Coda in Maine.  Julie is the present principal flutist in the CSUN Youth Symphony Orchestra.  She was twice the Conejo Valley branch winner in the VOCE competition, and twice the 1^st alternate in the CAPMT-MTNA Junior Woodwind Performance competition.  In the Southern California Junior Bach Festival of 2006, Julie was chosen to perform in the complete works audition and placed 2^nd.  She was also recognized at the Southwestern Youth Music Festival in 2006.

In her free time, Julie enjoys dancing ballet, and has performed as a party girl, snowflake, flower, and Chinese dancer in past Nutcracker ballet shows.  She has also performed as a waltz dancer and a swan in the Swan Lake ballet, and will be dancing the parts of a rose waltz dancer and a lilac blossom in the Sleeping Beauty ballet.  As well as dancing, Julie enjoys reading, spending time with her friends, and telling jokes.

Vivian Rotenstein, 13, has been studying piano since the age of five. She was a student of Gloria Hilliard, and she began her studies with her current piano teacher, Edward Francis, in 2003.When she was 10, she was one of the medal winners at the Regional Bach Festival, in Ventura that led to a performance at the Bach Festival Showcase, in Santa Barbara. She won gold medals at the Contemporary Music Festival, sponsored by the Conejo Valley MTAC that led to performances in the Honors recitals at the Scherr Forum Theatre, in Thousand Oaks, and she performed in the Certificate of Merit Honors Recital. Last year she was a soloist with the Conejo Concerto Orchestra, performing a Mozart concerto.

 Vivian is a student at Medea Creek Middle School and a member of the Associated Student Body at her school. She started the Model United Nations Club and is a member of other clubs and organizations at her school. Besides playing the piano, she enjoys doing ballet and modern dance and she was part of the Nutcracker production with the Pacific Festival Ballet Company, in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Vivian also loves to sing and she appeared in the musical productions of “Crazy for You” and “Oklahoma” with the musical theater Stages. Vivian plays soccer and basketball and she has been a member of Girl Scouts of America since she was six. In her free time she enjoys reading, writing stories, listening to classical music, playing with her dog Bisou, and spending time with her friends.

Hans Gao, fifteen, is a freshman at Newbury Park High School. He has been playing piano since he was six, and has been studying with Edward Francis for the past four years. He recently passed his Advanced Level CM program with honors and has won the MTAC Contemporary Music Festivals many times and played at the Gold Medal Honors Recitals. Hans is currently taking an Honors Piano Seminar class at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. This is the first time he is playing in the Conejo Concerto Orchestra as a featured soloist. In the world outside of music, Hans enjoys reading, chess, playing tennis, and blogging. He volunteers at the Civic Arts Plaza during the weekends, and currently leads a nonprofit group of high schoolers to raise money for the starving in Third World Countries.

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