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Pianist Dr. Peter Gach and multi-winds player Dr. Ellen Weller will create improvised dialogues exploring unexpected colors and sounds that rise out of a meditative space. This sonic collaboration will be at times dreamy or playful, soothing or violent, crafted in-the-moment.

With more than two decades in music, Whitlock is a “musician’s musician” who has performed and recorded with a wide array of top artists in pop, R&B and jazz. Over a two-year span, Whitlock was joined in recording studios all over the U.S. by a few friends to work on an eclectic project called Sketchin’. Along with Michael Brecker, Vinnie Colaiuta, Anthony Jackson, Scott Henderson, Othello Molineaux, Pat Kelley, and Cliff Almond, Whitlock recorded enough material to populate two albums.…

Ms. Dreiling was the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of Classics for Kids and currently is Artistic Director and Conductor of YPO Festival Orchestra, Soloists Ensemble and Soloists Sinfonietta. She was recently awarded 3rd prize in the American Prize Competition in the conductor of youth orchestra division. She also conducts the Symphonic Orchestra for Civic Youth Orchestra (CYO) and is Music Director of the North Coast Strings (NCS), and serves as principal violist of the Grossmont Symphony Orchestra and Grossmont Symphony…

The Private Music School, Zavadilka, was founded on April 27th, 2007 and teaches the foundations in music. It has built relationships with other schools at home and abroad in Austria, Great Britain and Cyprus. Since 2010 the school has worked with The Vasa Prihoda Institute. The school holds and organizes The International Violin Competition and The International Violin Exhibition: New European Talents. These are dedicated in honor of Vasa Prihoda.

Colin McAllister is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His performances as a guitarist and conductor have been hailed as “sparkling….delivered superbly” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “ravishing” (San Diego Union Tribune), and he has recorded on the Innova, Centaur, Naxos, Albany, Old King Cole, Vienna Modern Masters, Carrier and Tzadik labels. He was an instructor at Palomar College from 2000-2012.

Student composers take the audience down the rabbit hole through their original compositions in a variety of formats and styles (or wherever their imaginations can take us.)  We’re bettin’ you won’t want to miss this…real fun in real time for real!