Press Box Oakland Youth Orchestra

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <TABLE WIDTH="600" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0"> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="3" WIDTH="600"><IMG SRC="../image/OYO%20ho12-smallc.jpg" ALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="62" BORDER="0"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/tpline-bw.PNG" ALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0"></TD> <TD WIDTH="12"> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN="TOP"> <TD VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER" WIDTH="57"><BR><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF">.</FONT></TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="372"> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial"><BR>Members of the press,</FONT></P><FONT COLOR="#330000"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1" COLOR="#330000"> </FONT></P><FONT COLOR="#330000"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">Please feel free to copy and publish any of the photos you find on this site. All our</FONT><FONT COLOR="#330000"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">students have filed releases for the publication of their images and music and all</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">photographer welcome publication as long as you attribute their work.</FONT></P><FONT COLOR="#330000"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1" COLOR="#330000"> </FONT></P><FONT COLOR="#330000"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1" COLOR="#330000"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT COLOR="#330000">Please feel free to contact me to request comp tickets to our concerts, or to reques</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000">t</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#330000"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">information, or access to as yet unpublished photos or larger versions of photos you see here.</FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"><A HREF="mailto:Stack@oyo.org">Barbara Stack</A></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">Executive Director</FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1">****************</FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <FONT LANG="0" FACE="Times New Roman">For Immediate Release<BR> <FONT COLOR="#009933">OAKLAND YOUTH ORCHESTRA FALL CONCERT</FONT><BR> the 42nd Season of great music by great kids<BR> <FONT COLOR="#009933">celebrating Michael Morgan's Tenth Anniversary Season<BR> </FONT><BR> OAKLAND, CA - November 13, 2005, 3 pm, at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland. The concert will be conducted by the brilliant Maestro Michael Morgan, Principal Conductor Bryan Nies and <A HREF="http://www.oakland-sym-chorus.org/"> Oakland Symphony Chorus</A> Guest Conductor Lynne Morrow.<BR> <BR> Michael Morgan has said of OYO: "You have to experience it in person. There is an excitement that simply cannot be duplicated."<BR> <BR> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Georgia" LANG="0">OYO Concert Program<BR> <I>Overture to Alcina</I>   by George Friderick Handel<BR> <I>Overture to L'Isola Disabitata</I>   by Joseph Haydn<BR> Michael Morgan Conducting from the Harpsichord<BR> <BR> <I>Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor</I>  by  Alexander Borodin<BR> conducted by Lynne Morrow<BR> <I>Requiem</I>  by  Gabriel Fauré<BR> with Oakland Symphony Chorus<BR> Joanne Um, soprano    John Frederick, baritone<BR> conducted by Bryan Nies</FONT><FONT LANG="0" FACE="Times New Roman"><BR> <BR> Admission is $12 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Allen Temple Baptist Church is located 8501 International Blvd., Oakland CA 94621.<BR> <BR> <B>Oakland Youth Orchestra</B> is comprised of 75 talented young music students aged 13 to 21 years from over 30 cities from throughout the Bay Area. They represent forty six different schools and are involved in athletics; school governance, and community volunteer service as well as music. The Orchestra is supported by tuition, corporate, foundation and government grants, and contributions from individuals in the community. To learn more visit www.oyo.org.<BR> <BR> <B>Artistic Director Michael Morgan</B> was born in Washington DC where he attended public schools and began conducting at the age of 12. While a student at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. There he was a student of Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa, and it was during that summer that he worked with Leonard Bernstein. Michael Morgan is a noted mentor of young conductors and advocate for music education in Oakland and around the world.<BR> <BR> <B>Lynne Morrow, Guest Conductor of Oakland Symphony Chorus</B> is an alumna of OYO and teaches at Sonoma State University, directing the Vocal and Opera/Music Theatre Programs.<BR> <BR> <B>Principal Conductor Bryan Nies</B> holds the prestigious Bruno Walter Assistant Conductor Chair with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, is Assistant Conductor of Opera San Jose, and an assistant conductor of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek.<BR> <BR> <B>Allen Temple Baptist Church</B> offers many community care programs. Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr. has served as Pastor of Allen Temple Baptist Church for over 30 years.<BR> <BR> Contact: Barbara Stack, Executive Director at 510.832.7710 or stack@oyo.org<BR> Photos and this release available at www.oyo.org or by email</FONT></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia">******************</SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">For Immediate Release</SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">OAKLAND YOUTH ORCHESTRA SPRING CONCERT</SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">the 41st Season of great music by great kids</SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <FONT COLOR="#009933"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">the brightest stars of tomorrowtoday</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">OAKLAND, CA - May 22, 2005, 7:30 pm</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia">, at First Congregational Church in </SPAN> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Oakland. The concert will be conducted by Maestro Michael Morgan and Principal Conductor Bryan Nies.</SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Michael Morgan has said of OYO: "You have to experience it in person. There is an excitement that simply cannot be duplicated."</SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000">OYO Concert Program</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><I>Symphony No. 1</I> by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><I>Prelude</I> to Act III of <I>Lohengrin</I> by Richard Wagner</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><I>Hebrew Suite</I>, First Movement "Rhapsodie" by Ernest Bloch</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><FONT FACE="Arial"> </FONT> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Alessandra Aquilanti, viola soloist and winner of OYO Concerto Competition</SPAN></FONT></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Chinese Pieces by  Pei Kun Xi</SPAN></FONT></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic"> Triumph Song</SPAN></FONT></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><I> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia">Tibet</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia"> Dance Song</SPAN></FONT></I></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic"> Happy Women Soldiers</SPAN></FONT></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">with Sherlyn Chew's Great Wall Youth Orchestra</SPAN></FONT></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Admission is $12 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens. Tickets may be purchased at the door. First Congregational Church is located at 2501 Harrison Street Oakland CA </SPAN> <SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia">94612</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia">.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Oakland Youth Orchestra is comprised of 76 talented young music students aged 13 to 21 years from over 30 cities from throughout the Bay Area. They represent forty six different schools and are involved in athletics; school politics, and community volunteer service as well as music. The Orchestra is supported by tuition, corporate, foundation and government grants, and contributions from individuals in the community. To learn more visit www.oyo.org.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><B>Artistic Director Michael Morgan</B> was born in Washington DC where he attended public schools and began conducting at the age of 12. While a student at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the Berkshire </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia">Music</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> Center at Tanglewood. There he was a student of Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa, and it was during that summer that he worked with Leonard Bernstein. Michael Morgan is a noted mentor of young conductors and advocate for music education in Oakland and around the world.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><B>Principal Conductor Bryan Nies</B> is also Resident Conductor of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek. Last year he won the prestigious Bruno Walter Assistant Conductor Chair with the Oakland East Bay Symphony. He was recently promoted to the position of Principal Conductor of OYO.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><B>Viola soloist Alessandra Aquilanti</B></SPAN> was born in 1987, daughter of Giancarlo Aquilanti and Betsy London. In 1988 she and her family moved to Italy to live in her fathers hometown of Jesi. They remained in Jesi for four years, and as a result, Ale is fluent in Italian. Having grown up in the music world, playing an instrument was inevitable. Her mother is a professional violist in many, if not most, Bay Area orchestras. Her father composes, and is a professor of music at Stanford University. Her uncle Larry London, is a clarinetist, composer, and professor, and her grandmother, Ethel London, was the manager of the Oakland Youth Orchestra (OYO) for almost twenty years. </P> <P>At age eight, Ale began playing violin and later joined the Youth Orchestra of Southern Alameda County (YOSAC) where she was a member from 1997 to 2001. She studied with Gretchen Sauer from 1998-2001, and now studies with Linda Green. Ale joined OYO as a violist in 2001 and has served as principal since the spring of 2002. Although she barely missed the Italy Tour in 2001, she participated in the tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2004 where she never tired of watching the water go down the drain the wrong way. She is also a member of the San Leandro High School Orchestra, which rehearses every morning at the crack of dawn (seven oclock). Aside from music, Ale enjoys acting, telling bad jokes, and generally being a ham. She will graduate from San Leandro High School this June and plans to attend New York University where she will undoubtedly continue her studies in viola. </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> AleAquilanti</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoBodyText" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><B>Violist Linda Green</B> is originally from Toledo, Ohio and attended Bowling Green State University, New England Conservatory of Music, and Syracuse University. She started on the viola in the 4th grade at school because she liked the sound and her older sisters played violin (too high) and clarinet (too something).</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoBodyText" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoBodyText" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">She has performed in Europe and Macau as a member of the Orchestra Nacional do Porto. In Montreal she played Brandenburg 6 as a soloist with the Syracuse University Symphony. In Iceland she was a tutor/extra with the Icelandic Youth Orchestrashe. In addition to her assistant principal viola duties in Portugal, she taught for three years at ARTAVE, the leading junior high/high school in the country for music. One of her students received the first prize in viola in a national competition called "Premio Jovens Musicos," winning a Capella viola and a concerto performance with the Gulbankian Orchestra in Lisbon. That student later received a full scholarship to The Royal Academy of Music in London. She was also a member of the Quarteto Jacob.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoBodyText" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoBodyText" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Linda moved to the Bay Area in 2001 and teaches music at Roosevelt Middle School in Oakland. She also plays viola in the Oakland East Bay Symphony and has played with the Toledo Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the Binghamton (NY) Symphony, the Tri-Cities Opera Orchestra, the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, and many of the Bay area ensembles.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><B>Conductor and Composer Pei-Kun Xi </B> graduated from the Shanghai Music conservatory in 1969. As principal conductor of the Shanghai and Peking Opera companies, he has conducted more than 600 performances of Chinese operas. From 1978 to 1985 he served as the Music director of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and at the same time was the principal conductor of the Shanghai Youth Orchestra. Since coming to the US, he has studied conducting at the San Francisco Institute of Music and Art under Peter Black, and has received an MA from the New England Conservatory of Music. He plays the bassoon, piano, violin and several Chinese instruments. He also served as the music director and conductor for three major Chinese films and several Chinese television productions and has three commercially available recordings. Pei Kun Xi is a faculty member at Laney </SPAN> <SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia">College</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Georgia"> in </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Oakland, CA. He is the composer in residence and the conductor for the Great Wall Youth Orchestra</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"><B>The Great Wall Youth Orchestra</B> was formed to accommodate "graduates" of the Purple Bamboo Orchestra, and welcomes interested students from throughout the Bay Area to audition for the orchestra. Student members range from elementary to high school age and play pieces that reflect their high level of skill in playing their chosen Chinese musical instruments. The orchestra rehearses on Saturdays under tutelage of musicians, who are expert in the various instruments, and plays at many concerts throughout the year.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia"> </SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Contact: Barbara Stack, Executive Director at 510.832.7710 or stack@oyo.org</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family:Georgia">Photos and this release available at www.oyo.org or by email</SPAN></P> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">OYO Dress Rehearsal 11/14/2004. Bryan Nies leads the JC Bach Symphony from the keyboard while Michael Morgan looks on. Students pictured are Victoria Yoon, cello, and violinists Andrew Wilson, Alyssa Mathias, Alicia Tan, Vidya Pai, Sophia Zhang, and Jonathan Tzeng. B. Stack photo.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">For Immediate Release</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">October 27,2004</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">OAKLAND YOUTH ORCHESTRA FALL CONCERT</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">the 41st Season of great music by great kids</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">the brightest stars of tomorrowtoday</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">OAKLAND, CA - November 21, 2004, 3 pm, at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland. The concert will  be conducted by the brilliant Maestro Michael Morgan and Principal Conductor Bryan Nies.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Michael Morgan has said of OYO: "You have to experience it in person. There is an excitement that simply cannot be duplicated."</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">OYO Concert Program</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Symphony in G minor JC Bach</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Serenade No. 11 WA Mozart</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Concerto Grosso in D Major GF Handel</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Michael Morgan Conducting from the Harpsichord</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Symphony No. 8 Antonin Dvorak</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Admission is $12 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Allen Temple Baptist Church is located 8501 International Blvd., Oakland CA 94621.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Oakland Youth Orchestra is comprised of 71 talented young music students aged 13 to 21 years from over 30 cities from throughout the Bay Area. They represent forty six different schools and are involved in athletics; school politics, and community volunteer service as well as music. The Orchestra is supported by tuition, corporate, foundation and government grants, and contributions from individuals in the community. To learn more visit www.oyo.org.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Oakland Youth Orchestra, founded in 1964 as the educational arm of the Oakland Symphony, is celebrating its 41st Season. OYO has been an independent non-profit organization since 1986, and is proud of its many alumni performing in as professional musicians throughout the world.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Artistic Director Michael Morgan was born in Washington DC where he attended public schools and began conducting at the age of 12. While a student at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. There he was a student of Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa, and it was during that summer that he worked with Leonard Bernstein. Michael Morgan is a noted mentor of young conductors and advocate for music education in Oakland and around the world.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Principal Conductor Bryan Nies is also Resident Conductor of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek. Last year he won the prestigious Bruno Walter Assistant Conductor Chair with the Oakland East Bay Symphony. He was recently promoted to the position of Principal Conductor of OYO.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Allen Temple Baptist Church offers several community care programs including senior and social service programs, a tutorial program, a food and clothing pantry, a prison ministry, AIDS ministry, as well as a Hispanic Ministry. Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr. has served as Pastor of Allen Temple Baptist Church for over 30 years.</P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal" STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Contact: Barbara Stack, Executive Director at 510.832.7710 or <A HREF="mailto:stack@oyo.org">stack@oyo.org</A><BR></P> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">PRESS RELEASE</P> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">October 20, 2004</P> <P><FONT LANG="0" FACE="Georgia" SIZE="2">Diana Moore has joined the Oakland Youth Orchestra as Development Manager. She comes to the 41-year old organization with experience in arts, education and health care fundraising. Most recently, she was the development director at the Alameda Civic Light Opera. She will oversee many aspects of OYO's fundraising, including grant writing, individual giving, the annual Pops concert and auction, sponsorships, audience development and program ad sales.</FONT></P> <P> </P></TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="CENTER" WIDTH="173"><BR><IMG SRC="../image/support/OYOre3hornssmall.JPG" BORDER="0" WIDTH="160" HEIGHT="163"><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="2"><IMG SRC="../image/ln-oyo01vert.JPG" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="900" BORDER="0"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY>