Alan Mautner, a native of southern California, has been playing cello professionally for the last 20 years. He graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a B.M. in cello performance. He has performed with many local orchestras including the Pacific Symphony, Redlands Symphony, Riverside Symphony and the Mozart Camerata in Orange County. He has been in back up orchestras with such artists as McCoy Tyner and Barry White and the Goo Goo Dolls featured on the Tonight Show. Mr. Mautner also performed on the recording “You’ll be in my Heart” by Phil Collins on the “Tarzan” soundtrack, which won the Oscar for the best song in 1999.
Mr. Mautner’s chamber music experiences have taken him many times abroad. He traveled to Frankfurt, Germany in 1983 with his string quartet and more recently traveled with his piano trio,”Trio duBois”, to perform at the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 1997. In the summer of 2000, Mr. Mautner was the featured continuo player as he traveled with the Calabases Chamber Orchestra to Paris to perform in the St. Chappel. They were the first foreign orchestra to play at that venue.
Mr. Mautner has been on the faculty of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts since 1990. He is currently the orchestra director and serves as a string ensemble coach. He conducted last year performance of “Evita” and “Fiddler on the Roof” with the LACHSA Musical Theater and also conducted the Theater Department’s production of “Into the Woods”. His opera productions have included Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Handel’s Alcina and Begger’s Opera by Britten.
Classes
Orchestra
String Ensembles
Theory/Orchestration
Fung Ho, violinist, is currently Concertmaster for the West L.A. Symphony Orchestra and was Concertmaster for the Burbank Chamber Orchestra from 1992-97. He moved to Los Angeles in 1984 from New York City where he served as Concertmaster for both the Brooklyn Chamber and Queens Philharmonic Orchestras. He has also given solo and chamber music recitals in New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Minnesota. Fung Ho was President of the Los Angeles Section of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA with NSOA) and also served as President of the West San Gabriel Valley Branch of the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC).
Mr. Ho holds a Masters Degree of Music from the Manhattan School of Music in New York where he studied with the late Carroll Glenn. Later on, in Los Angeles, he studied pedagogy and repertoire with the late Noumi Fischer. He also holds a Masters Degree in Hematology. He is on the faculty of the International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) at UC Santa Barbara during the summers. Mr. Ho has given Master classes in the US as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Currently, Fung Ho is on the faculty of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) where he serves as the Conductor for the String Orchestra.
Classes
String Ensemble
Helen Goode-Castro graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, England with an Honors degree and a Professional Performers Diploma in Clarinet. She furthered her studies at the Royal College of Music where she received the Artists Diploma. While in London, she performed with several European Orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and Süd-Bayerische Philharmonie, Germany. Ms. Goode moved to L.A. to study with Gary Gray at UCLA where she obtained an MFA in Clarinet Performance and then began studies at USC on a DMA with Yehuda Gilad and Michele Zukovsky. She freelances regularly with Mozart Camerata, Santa Barbara Symphony, Redlands Symphony, Inland Empire Symphony, California Philharmonic, Long Beach Symphony and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Helen was a finalist in the Boosey and Hawkes Clarinet competition in Chicago and won a position with Sarasota Opera Festival Orchestra for 1996 and 1997. She recently returned from London where she performed The Tone Poemfor Clarinet and Orchestra by Charles Fernandez with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Goode is on the Arts High faculty where she coaches woodwind ensembles and teaches theory. She is also on the faculty at Cal State University Los Angeles and Cal State Long Beach.
Classes
Woodwind Ensmble
Theory
Francisco Castillo earned his Masters in Music in oboe performance from the University of Southern California, a Bachelors and Licenciatura in oboe, composition and orchestra conducting from the University of Costa Rica. He was the winner of the Costa Rica National Prize in composition, 1979, for his orchestral work TUPACK AMARU. In 1988, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet premiered his Woodwind Quintet, Op.22, No.1. As an Oboist, Francisco was a prize winner at the 34th Chamber Music Competition in Colmar, France, with the USC Graduate Woodwind Quintet and also won the first William Criss Memorial Award at USC in 1985. In 1998, after a very successful concert tour to China, Francisco was given an honorary membership to the Chinese Musicians Union and the Literary Society of Shingdao by the Chinese Musicians Union and the government of China for his teachings and help to Chinese students. Francisco is the principal Oboist with the Redlands Symphony, California Philharmonic Orchestra, Burbank Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of Pasadena, San Bernardino Orchestra and the Pasadena Pops Orchestra. He is the solo oboist with the Los Angeles Woodwind Quintet and the new age jazz group L.A. Reed Machine. Mr. Castillo has performed with many different orchestras including the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Castillo is also the Oboe and the Chamber Music instructor at Redlands University, La Sierra University, the Idyllwild Arts Academy and the Los Angeles High School for the Arts. He has been recognized as an outstanding oboe teacher and chamber music clinician. Many of his students have won major solo and chamber music competitions in the United States and have been admitted to the best universities and music schools.
Classes
Woodwind Ensemble
Nathan Campbell received his Bachelor of Music Degree from Wichita State University and a Masters of Music from the University of Southern California. He has been Assistant Principal Horn with the Wichita Symphony and with the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra. He has been an active freelance musician in the Los Angeles area for over twenty years. Mr. Campbell has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Long Beach Symphony and Los Angeles Music Center Opera. He currently performs with the San Diego Symphony and the San Andreas Brass Quintet. He performed has performed as a regular orchestra member of may musicals including the Los Angeles Production of Sunset Boulevard, Beauty and the Beast, Ragtime and Phantom of the Opera, and The Producers. In addition to many chamber music performances, he is active in the recording industry. Nathan is on the faculty at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and California State University, Los Angeles.
Classes
Brass Ensemble
Robert Stevenson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music at California State University, Los Angeles. He is beginning his sixth year as Percussion Ensemble Instructor at LACHSA and his 20th year at the Wildwood Music Institute. He is also the percussion intructor for the Glendale Youth Orchestra. Mr. Stevenson is regularly employed as a freelance musician in Southern California. He tours with Music Acuriousa, historic music restoration from the era of silent films which recently performed at the Smithsonian Institute, the Berkley Film Festival, and the University of Chicago. He also records with various studios in Hollywood and is the proprietor of a brass and woodwind instrument repair shop. Mr. Stevenson was a director of bands in El Monte Unified School District and has taught elementary band and orchestra in the Pasadena Unified School District.
Classes
Percussion Ensemble
Eileen Helwig is an accomplished flautist. She has been rigorously trained in music theory and has been sharing that knowledge with her students at LACHSA for many years.
Classes
Theory
Classes
String Ensemble
Eileen Holt is Principal Flute of the Riverside County Philharmonic. She has also served as Principal Flute with the San Bernardino Symphony, the Desert Symphony, and the Redlands Symphony. She has performed with the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and the Long Beach Opera. She is a member of Calico Winds, a professional wind quintet and on the faculty of the Birch Creek Music Festival in Wisconsin. Ms. Holt is also a professional vocalist, having performed with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and can be heard on many film sound tracks, including Independence Day and Batman and Robin. Ms. Holt joined the Conservatory in 1997.
Classes
Theory