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LIVE at the Howard Brubeck Theatre! Back on Stage and In Person! Palomar Performing Arts Proudly Presents CONCERT HOUR Every Thursday at 1 p.m. Emilia Lopez-Yañez is an award-winning singer and oboist. Raised in a musical family, Emilia began performing at a young age and proceeded to continue her musical journey professionally. After earning her Bachelor’s Degree at Chapman University in both vocal and oboe performance, she went on to receive her Masters in oboe performance at the University of Southern California while simultaneously starting a career as a freelance performer. Lopez-Yañez has performed up and down the west coast with the Pacific Symphony, Bay Philharmonic, San Diego City Ballet Orchestra, and Palimpsest, in addition to international performances in Mexico, the Czech Republic, and India. As a Grammy member, Emilia has collaborated on projects with international artists Dan Aykroyd, Julian Lennon, Ricky Kej, Rupam Sarmah, and Allan White of YES. She was the featured oboist on the Chill instrumental single, Distorted Time which charted on the Billboard Charts. Through these recordings, she hopes to expand the musical genres in which oboe can be found, including Jewish-Indian fusion, Chill, House, and Children’s Music. Emilia is an adjunct faculty member at Palomar and Mira Costa Colleges and maintains a large private teaching studio. Ruth Weber has performed internationally as a pianist and been an accompanist/coach with numerous organizations including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, Opera Aguascalientes, and California State University, Northridge. She was a recording artist with the Music-Minus-One division of the Marantz Corporation, and an Artistic Director/coach for operatic productions presented by Jean Will Presents. Ms. Weber is the director of the award-winning and Billboard charting San Diego Jewish Men’s Choir, and an accomplished composer whose music has won the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the Global Peace Song Awards, the Shalshelet Music Festival, the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and more. Her compositions have appeared on recordings, in films, in print music with Alfred and Hal Leonard publishing companies, and have been performed by the Omaha, Virginia, Rochester and Nashville Symphonies. Ruth is presently the Applied Music Coordinator and an adjunct faculty member at Palomar College in addition to teaching music courses at S.D. Miramar College.

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Some of San Diego’s students are struggling in overheated classrooms during heatwave.

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Carla is responsible for the planning and execution of KPBS events. She joined the marketing and communications department in 2009 and coordinates receptions, screening events, and KPBS staff events. In addition, she works on annual events such as the GI Film Festival San Diego- a multi-day event showcasing films for, by, and about the military and veteran experience, as well as KPBS' participation in Explore SDSU and quarterly member-only events. Carla started at KPBS in 2001 as a production coordinator in video production services where she assisted clients with video productions. She also managed production for station grant projects including Q Kids and The Mortgage Crisis. Carla earned her degree in filmmaking and child development from Hampshire College and began her non-profit career at Sesame Workshop (Children’s Television Workshop at the time) in their international production department. Born in South Africa, raised on three different continents, Carla has called San Diego home since 2000.

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