Elegancia Doble (Naomi Hobbs & Yumiko Oya, piano 4-hands)
Monday, May 20, 2024
12 PM
Naomi Hobbs was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She earned her music degree at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, where she also taught for 10 years. She was a music and piano instructor at San Diego Community College district for 10 years. Yumiko Oya grew up in Tokyo, Japan. She began playing piano at age three. After moving to the U.S. in 1990, she began studying music theory at Orange Coast College. Further study earned Oya her Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the California Institute of the Arts.