Naomi and Yumiko will present a piano four hands program mix of Holiday tunes along with classical favorites for the library audience. Both lady performers have played at Fallbrook Library in the past as soloists and with ensembles.

Elegancia doble, as a duo, won the first prize of the 17th Japanese Musician’s Association of California Piano competition in 2016. 

The Christmas program will include:

Naomi Hobbs was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.  She earned her Music Degree at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, where she taught for ten years.  In 1998, one year before she moved to San Diego, she performed Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra.  She was the instructor of Music and Piano class at San Diego Community College for Ten years. She was the first prize winner of the 7th International Piano Competition in Mexico in 2012 and the gold medalist of 6th Seattle International Piano Competition in 2015.  Yumiko Oya was born in Osaka, Japan and grew up in Tokyo.  Although Yumiko has been playing the piano since she was three years old, she didn’t pursue it as a career. But after she moved to the U.S. about twenty years ago, she realized that music is a universal language as she went back to college to start off from beginner’s music theory. There, she received her master’s in piano performance. Since then, she has been active playing the piano, in concerts, collaborating with a local orchestra as a soloist, and teaching privately.