Don Marino - Music Director
Coming soon....
Douglas Bast - Executive Director/Double Bass Coach
Douglas co-founded the Inland Valley Youth Symphony in April 2007. Mr. Bast received
his Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), 2004. He was principle bassist for
The Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra, UNO Chamber Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Young Artist Symphony Orchestra
and he served as assistant principle for the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Along with playing, Douglas served as a board member
for the Heartland Philharmonic and Coordinator for the "School For Strings Grades K - 12", with the University of
Nebraska at Omaha String Department. Douglas was the Concerto Contest winner for the Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000
& 2003, and in 1994 with the Los Medanos Wind Ensemble. His private teachers include Wil Clifton & William Ritchie
(Omaha Symphony), Shinji Ushima (San Francisco Opera Orchestra) and Stephen Tramontozzi (San Francisco Symphony). As well
as being an accomplished musician, Douglas composed his first symphony (at the age of 18), a piano peice (La Vie de Carrie),
and several other music pieces. In addition to his professional playing, he is also a private instructor.
Juantia Jackson - Assistant Music Director/Viola Coach
Bio updating soon...
Lois Leyva - Assistant Executive Director/Violin Coach
Lois is one of the founding persons of the Inland Valley Symphony. She attended West Virginia University
where she received her Masters Level in Performance; studying with Professor Donald Portnoy. She moved to California in 1977
and studied with Anthony Porto at Grossmont College in La Mesa and sat as concertmaster under his baton in the Grossmont Sinfonia
for six years. On occasion she played solos (ex: Vivaldi's Summer from the Four Seasons) and was involved in a five-year chamber
music concert series with Porto and others.
Lois has played in other professional productions including Gilbert and
Sullivan San Diego, SDSU musicals, Jewish Community Symphony's Mexico Tour, Coachella Valley and Idyllwild School. She has
attended many chamber music workshops from Oregon to Bozeman, MT.
Lois has taught for over 20 years. She began teaching
in the San Diego Public Schools and now teaches private lessons in the Temecula area. She performs regularly with the Inland
Valley Opera Orchestra.
Kirsten Vogelsang Eyerman
- Cello Coach
Since graduating from Yale with an MM in 1984, Kirsten has been active as both performer/(cellist) and composer,
dedicating her career to the forward/crossover movements in film, dance and new media.Kirsten began
her film scoring career in 1989 as composer/fellow at the Sundance Institute where she worked with top composers and conducted
the Utah Symphony in her own film music. Since then Kirsten has created scores for over 15 feature length films, specializing
in epic, suspense and dramatic scores. Most notable are her scores for The Reunion (1977)
starring Timothy Devlin, Riding With James Dean (1998), Love Notes (1996) starring Margaux
Hemingway and Hero Lover Fool (1997) starring Jon Jacobs. Currently Kirsten is scoring the upcoming feature
and series Vampyre Confidential, created by Joe Ritter.In 2001 Kirsten was honored
to receive the Spirit of Moondance Award for Filmscoring, which she accepted at the 2001 Moondance Film Festival. Kirsten
has also received annual awards from ASCAP since 1990. In addition to her MM from Yale University, Kirsten
has a BM from Mannes College of Music and has attended the Julliard School and Bennington for extra classes.
Kate Prestia-Schaub - Woodwind Coach
Kate made her solo
piccolo debut with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at age 18. Additionally, she has been a soloist with the Indiana University
Wind Ensemble, the Denver Concert Band, and in 2007 with the All Valley Honor Band in Temecula. Kate has
been invited to perform at the National Flute Association Convention numerous times, and is honored to have been invited to
many other notable flute festivals in the United States. She has performed solo recitals throughout the United States,
Japan, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Her 2010 schedule includes a series of solo recitals with the Golden
Valley Music Society, a woodwind quintet project, and several recording projects. She recently premiered "Flash!"at
the NFA convention in New York in August. As a soloist, Kate has recently been working with world renowned composers
in expanding the piccolo repertoire. In 2001, composition faculty at USC Frederick Lesemann wrote "Slow Music for
Piccolo Alone" for Kate. In 2008, Daniel Dorff wrote the ever energetic show piece "Flash!" Also
in 2008, James Sharp wrote "Piccolo Sonatina" for Kate. These two new compositions were written and entered
in the International Piccolo Symposium's composition competition. "Flash!" was the winner of this, and is
available through Theodore Presser, or Flute World. Currently, Kate is working with Martin Kennedy on a new work for
piccolo to be premiered in 2010.In addition to her flourishing solo career, Kate is a member of the Inland Valley Symphony
in Southern California. She also performs regularly with several musical theater groups in the Temecula and Murrieta
valley, as well as actively playing with collaborative chamber music groups for community development and outreach events
sponsored by the Arts Council of Temecula Valley.
Ms. Prestia-Schaub enjoys teaching a studio full of dedicated flute
students in her home in Murrieta California. Her students participate in a variety of activities including: the Certificate
of Merit program sponsored by the Music Teachers Association of California, Music Teachers National Association Music Study Award program, San Diego Flute Guild festivals and competitions,
SCSBOA solo and ensemble festivals, two recitals per year, and she invites students
to participate in community service programs for senior citizens in the area. In addition to her studio at home, Kate
is invited several times a year to facilitate piccolo and flute master classes at various Universities and Flute Festivals
throughout the country. During the school year, she serves as the "Flute Coach" to Murrieta Valley High School
and Shivela Middle School. During the summer months, Kate teaches the "Summer Music in the Valley" program sponsored by the Temecula Valley Arts Council. Kate is on
the adjunct faculty for the Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, CA where she gives master classes and sectionals for their
high school flute section. Ms. Prestia-Schaub's teaching positions have included The Seoul Academy of Music (Van Nuys, CA);
The Korean American Academy of Music (La Crescenta, CA); the Old Town Conservatory of Music and the Performing
Arts (Pasadena, CA); and the European School of Music, (Torrance, CA). In
addition, Ms. Prestia-Schaub served as the development director for the Old Town Conservatory in Pasadena from 2001 to 2006. There, she wrote grants for community outreach
music education programs and scholarships for the Conservatory Youth Orchestra program. She created, developed and taught
the "Adventures in Music" program in participating elementary schools in the Pasadena area. Currently she
is serving on the board of the San Diego Flute Guild, the Music Teachers Association of California, and the advisory committee
for the National Flute Association.
Richard
Herrick - French Horn Coach
Bio updating soon...
Don Jackson - Trombone Coach
Bio updating soon...
Alana
Joos - Percussion Coach
She began her percussion and piano studies while in grade school in Wimbledon, N. Dakota. Alana
has a B.S. in Music from Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota.
In 1974 she traveled to Korea and Okinawa
with the U.S.O. Shows, performing for the U.S. military and played drums for the Jerry Van Dyke Show, touring the Midwest
and Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe and Reno. Alana moved to Los Angeles in 1974 to pursue her Master’s Degree in Percussion
at Cal State University, Northridge where she served as Graduate Assistant in Percussion.
Her percussion teachers have
included Karen Ervin, Owen Clark, Joel Leach, Mitchell Peters, William Kraft, James Moore, Murray Spivak, Dale Anderson and
Earl Hatch. Alana is also an accomplished music educator and was instrumental in organizing some of the first educational
events for percussion education in California in the late 1970’s. As President of the California Chapter of the Percussive
Arts Society she organized the Western States Percussion Festival as well as various clinics and educational programs that
served to educate and support the percussive arts.
She has appeared as a drummer in the movies Unfaithfully Yours, The
Sting II, Going Berserk and as herself in Nothing So Strange. Alana also played percussion on Milton Berle’s production
Magic of the Stars. Recently she has played percussion, in concert, for comedians Jerry Lewis and Don Rickles; with American
Idol's Clay Aiken, and for the new musical "Ginger & Me." She is also the percussionist for the Inland Valley
Opera Orchestra.
Alana has played with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, Rio Honda Symphony,
Westside Symphony Orchestra, Compton Symphony, Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra, The Life Member Symphony Orchestra,
The San Jacinto Symphony, The Coachella Valley Symphony and other various orchestras and bands throughout Southern California.
Alana currently resides in Palm Springs, CA. and is President of Entertainment Express and Dakota Moon Events, a full
service entertainment and party planning company which she founded in 1978. She and her sister Janna produce an annual awards
show called The Reel Awards which is considered the Oscars of the celebrity impersonator industry.
Gigi Paddock - Coordinator / Librarian
Dora Few - Coordinator
