Asuncion Ojeda – 10 Hour Bach Marathon at Union Station

Baroque Flutist Asuncion Ojeda joining us as featured flute soloist for Bach’s beautiful Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, along with Violinist Phillip Levy and Harpsichordist Arthur Omura in the 10 Hour Marathon’s Finale.
Flutist Asunción Ojeda is an elementary music teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District. As a performer, her interests lie in contemporary chamber music as well as music from the baroque era, and she has been active with various southern California ensembles, including the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Nimbus Ensemble, Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra, and ensemble Green. This past summer, she was a performer faculty member at the Nirmita Composers Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where she had the opportunity to perform new works by composers from southeast Asia, Japan, and the United States. She holds degrees from California State University Northridge, California Institute of the Arts, and University of Southern California. Asunción is also a student/performer with the World Kulintang Institute Ensemble, an organization devoted to the preservation and continued oral transmission of ancient gong and drum traditions from the southern Philippines.