Sign up NOW for our newly formed Youth Symphony!
Openings available for ALL Orchestral Instruments.

Make New Music!    Make New Friends!
Learn and Perform Exciting Symphonic Repertoire!
Win the Concerto Competition!

        Rehearsals begin on Tuesday Sept. 9, 2008  4:30 – 6:00 PM

Tuition per Semester Only - $100
Registration and Materials Fee - $25

Only 1 block from BART.

For more information please contact
Music Director  Sandra I Noriega 
925-577-7443     snoriega@opcmusic.org

About the Director

Bachelor of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Master of Arts - Music, CSU East Bay
Post Masters Professional Certificate – Instrumental Conducting, CSU, Sacramento

Sandra I Noriega received a full scholarship to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, becoming the first woman to graduate with a degree in Percussion Performance from both the Conservatory in 1983 and CSU East Bay, where she earned her master's degree in 1985. Sandra held a tenured position as Principal Timpanist with the Women's Philharmonic from 1981 to 2004, and has been honored on numerous "Who's Who" lists.  She has recorded four CDs with the Women's Philharmonic on the Koch International label.  Sandra served as a professor of music at the college level for 11 years, and at the high-school and elementary levels since 1975, directing and producing many public performances including a Community “Sing-It-Yourself Messiah” in Oakland, Ca.  Sandra also conducts the Bay Area Asian Children’s Percussion Ensemble, an outreach program of the Wisdom Culture and Education Organization.  In addition, she is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music Youth Symphony, and the OPC Youth Percussion Ensemble.  In 2005, she became the founder and director of The Women’s Percussion Troupe, newly named Women and Percussion, Inc., a professional group dedicated to highlighting and promoting the presence of women in the field of Percussion Performance.  In 2008, Ms. Noriega completed an intensive Post-Master's Studies Program receiving a Professional Certificate in Instrumental Conducting at California State University, Sacramento.  Sandra also teaches privately in her percussion studio in Castro Valley, California, in addition to her performance schedule.

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JUNE/JULY
Calendar

JUNE 29
James Tinsley
trumpet recital

JULY 3
Alternative
4th of July Celebration
with
Upsurge Jazz Poetry
Ensemble

JULY 6
Backstreet Jazz Concert Series
Tribute to
Jackie McLean
4-7pm
$20 adults
$15-18 & under