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Conductor/Music Director: Maestro Stephen Tucker

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Maestro Stephen Tucker
Conductor Stephen Tucker is presently conductor of the University of California, Irvine’s Symphony Orchestra and an Assistant Professor in music; teaching Conducting, Orchestration, and Analysis.  At UCI Tucker’s performances include symphonic concerts, opera presentations, and performances with the dance department.  Before joining the faculty at UCI, Tucker was a doctoral student (Doctor of Musical Arts) at UCLA, where he was conductor of Musical Theater and Assistant Conductor for Opera UCLA, under maestro William Vendice, head of the Music Staff at the LA Opera.  Previous to his time at UCLA, Tucker held positions as Music Director of the Neumark Ensemble, a Southern California Chamber Orchestra and Chorale, and the Southern California Young Artists’ Symphony. His varied musical background and repertoire, equally rich in choral and symphonic works, makes him a very sought after conductor for concerts and opera performances.


Maestro Tucker recently made his Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, debut conducting Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.  As the Cover Conductor for Maestro Andrew Litton, at the Pacific Symphony, recently, also, Tucker was called upon to conduct the orchestra’s first rehearsal of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. His guest conducting appearances in Europe have been with such orchestras as the Slovak Radio Symphony, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic, while in the U.S. he has been engaged as either guest conductor or cover conductor for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Long Beach Symphony, and the Pacific Symphony. From 2003 to 2004, he held the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra at Atlantic Union College, Massachusetts, where he led several performances. Having served on the faculties of the University of California, Riverside, and La Sierra University, and currently the conductor of the Arrowbear Symphonic Orchestra (summers), Tucker continues to devote a considerable amount of time to developing young musical talent. 

Tucker’s musical training began in Kingston, Jamaica, where he studied piano and conducting at the Jamaica School of Music. He further studied at the Vienna Conservatory, Austria, under Julius Kalmar and Yuigi Yuasa, and at the Conductors’ Institute, in Hartford, Connecticut, under Harold Farbermann, Daniel Lewis, and Christopher Wilkins. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Thayer Conservatory, at Atlantic Union College,  and both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.

 Conductor: Ms. Yali Chen 

 
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Ms. Yali Chen
Oboist and Conductor Yali Chen was born in Taichung, Taiwan. Her music studies began at age five on piano, and continued with theory and Solfege training at age twelve. After high school Ms. Chen was admitted to the National Taiwan Normal University as an oboist. Throughout her four years at NTNU, Ms. Chen performed with the Symphony Orchestra, serving as its principal oboist. As the winner of the concerto competition, she performed Haydn’s Oboe Concerto with the NTNU Symphony Orchestra, and performed in numerous solo and chamber concerts locally.  

Upon graduating from NTNU, Ms. Chen went to Vienna and Graz, Austria, to study under Professor Pierre W. Feit, winning Third Prize in the Wiener International Summer Camp. After Austria, Ms. Chen returned to Taiwan to teach oboe and to accept the position as principal oboist of the National Symphony Orchestra of that country.

 

In 2003, Ms. Chen entered the Claire Trevor School of the Arts’ Master of Fine Arts program at the University of California, Irvine, under a fellowship, earning her Masters degree in 2005. While at UCI, she studied oboe with Dr. Jonathan Davis, served as the principal oboist of the UCI Symphony, and pursued conducting and symphonic studies under Dr. Stephen Tucker. As a result of her studies with maestro Tucker, Ms. Chen has been invited to coach and conduct in such places as the Arrowbear Music Camp, and with the UCI Symphony.

 

Ms. Chen currently maintains a very busy teaching studio, while continuing to perform as a freelance oboist in such venues as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Segerstrom Concert Hall, with numerous symphony orchestras, including the Riverside County Philharmonic, and the Mozart Classical Orchestra. She is also the principal oboist of the Aineo Christian Chamber Orchestra.

 

 
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