THE ARTS

Corrick Brown was the Santa Rosa Symphony musical director for 38 years, He led the symphony for more than three decades and is widely recognized for creating a truly outstanding regional orchestra. While Corrick Brown is admired both as a fine musician and symphony conductor who has performed throughout the world, he is most recognized as an inspirational leader of the arts in this region. His commitment to musical education is well known. Under his leadership, the Santa Rosa Symphony created an active musical program for youth in this region. He and his wife, Norma, an accomplished pianist, also initiated the Redwoods Summer Music Festival, a chamber music series with an excellent reputation in Northern California. Corrick Brown also is a major supporter of the new partnership of the Santa Rosa Symphony and Sonoma State University in the development of the Green Music Center. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1999.

Oscar Caraballo is an internationally-acclaimed musician and recording artist. During the first years of his career he studied electro-acoustic music at the Institute of Phonologie of the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra, Piano at the Conservatory of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Caracas and the field of physics at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. From 1991 to 1992 Oscar was keyboard stage manager for the Venezuelan Pop group Aditus. He studied Composition at Sonoma State University from 1992-1996 and produced three CDs (Theme Between Two Times, Melodic Dreams, and Yesterday is Tomorrow).