Out of 60 musicians chosen from musicians all throughout the country, OPRF student Ricardo Castañeda was invited to spend two weeks at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Door County, Wisconsin.
Castañeda attended the symphony session, which aims to “provide intensive, performance-based instruction to promising young musicians age 12-18 by immersing them in a professional, mentoring environment,” according to the press release.
Interestingly, it seems as if the music gene runs in the family as his father, J. Ricardo, is the program director of the Birch Creek Symphony session as well as an oboe and English horn teacher at Northern Illinois University. Furthermore, Mr. Castañeda, sr., is the principal oboist with the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra.