Mini-Concert—Elegancia Doble, piano 4-hands

Mini-Concert; free admission.

Naomi Hobbs was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She earned her music degree at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, where she also taught for 10 years. In 1998, the year before she moved to San Diego, she performed Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a music and piano instructor at San Diego Community College district for 10 years. Hobbs won first prize at the Seventh Annual International Piano Competition in Mexico in 2012 and was the gold medalist of the Sixth Annual. Seattle International Piano Competition in 2015.

Yumiko Oya grew up in Tokyo, Japan. She began playing piano at age three. After moving to the US in 1990, she began studying music theory at Orange Coast College and was invited to play as a soloist on Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 with its orchestra at their annual concert. Further study earned Oya her Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the California Institute of the Arts. Since then she has actively performed as a soloist and with various ensembles.

You may also like the following events from Athenaeum Music & Arts Library:

• This Saturday, 14th June, 10:00 am, Athenaeum Book Sale in La Jolla
• Next Monday, 16th June, 12:00 pm, Mini-Concert—Sue Palmer Trio in La Jolla
• Next Monday, 16th June, 07:30 pm, Farrell Family Athenaeum Jazz | Dave Holland and Lionel Loueke in Sorrento Mesa

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