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REMINDER 11/1/2011 Sunday, November 6th rehearsal for both Junior Strings and Youth Symphony will be at Notre Dame School (33 E. Micheltorena St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101). ALL students are REQUIRED to bring a music stand to this rehearsal. Please also remember that Daylight Savings ends on Sunday (adjust your clocks back 1 hour).
Nov 13, 2011 Mar 11, 2012 May 20, 2012   Tickets available at Lobero Box Office, 963-0761, 33 E. Canon Perdido Adults, $15; students/seniors, $10; pre-school, free.
Andrew Radford, Music Director of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony since 2004, is also the Princpal Bassoonist of the Santa Barbara Symphony and the California Philharmonic and is the Education Coordinator for the Ojai Music Festival. Radford was born in Berkely, CA and moved south to attend the California Institute of the Arts. His musical education continued with performances at the Music Academy of the West, the Aspen and Spoleto Music Festivals and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestral Training Program. Radford played for two years in Germany as the Solo Bassoonist of the Hofer Symphoniker, an orchestra in Bavaris. Click here to read more.