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Next concert: May 20, 2012 at Hahn Hall


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.