October 19, 2025
This concert features long time residents of Tehachapi: concertmaster Elizabeth Fewtrell and associate concertmaster Wendy Clare. Elizabeth Fewtrell is a professional violinist and professor teaching appreciation, music history, and African American music at Antelope Valley College. Wendy Clare is a professional violinist, concert master of AVCSOMC, active musician in her local church, and private music instructor in the community.
December 5th, 2025
This concert feature the Tehachapi Symphonic Chorus, the Tehachapi High School Choir, and the students from the Antelope Valley College Master Chorale.
The Tehachapi Symphonic Chorus is under the direction of Sandy Adams. This community choir is composed of community volunteers of all ages. The choir is joined by students from Antelope Valley College Masterchorale. The combined choirs will perform Christmas repoitoire with Handel’s Messiah as the featured piece. Soloists are selected from each choir to perform the oratorios.
The Tehachapi High School Choir will be featured in this concert performing Christmas repetoire under the direction of Molly Bolewski.
March 8th, 2025
Our March concert will feature Yung-mee Rhee, an accomplished pianist and teacher. She has served as an adjudicator of the annual Southwestern Youth Music Festival and Music Teachers National Association Bartok Competition. She was Artistic Director of Image International Music Festival in 2011 and is a faculty member of the Korean Institute of Piano Pedagogy since 2010. A scholarship recipient of Indiana University’s acclaimed music school, she studied under the direction of renowned pianist Menahem Pressler, founder of the Beaux Arts Trio, Michael Block, and Francois Regnat. Ms. Rhee received her Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Indiana University and Master of Music in piano performance from California State University at Northridge
For this concert, some MTAC piano students from Bakersfield will be invited to a do pre-concert performance.
May 15,2025
This concert will feature the winner of the Tehachapi Symphony Young Artist Competition and the winner of the Cal State Bakersfield International Festival. These young artists will perform a movement of a concerto accompanied by the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra.
This concert will also host an art gallery exhibit featuring pieces created by Tehachapi high school and local college art students. The students will display their original artworks created around the piece, Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky. Pictures at an Exhibition will be the finale performed by the orchestra. This piece was famously inspired by painting and drawings by Victor Hartmann. Local art students will honor this artist by creating their own representations of the music.