Danielle Leone began studying flute at the age of eleven and received her B.M. at the University of California, Irvine, and her M.M. at the USC Thornton School of Music. She was the principal flutist of the Orange County Symphony from 2012-2016 and has also performed in other local orchestras such as the San Bernardino Symphony. Danielle also performed as a soloist with the UCI Symphony, playing the Carl Nielsen Flute Concerto from memory.
In addition to her professional flute career, Danielle graduated from the Southern California College of Optometry in 2016 and is now a licensed optometrist in California and Arizona. She is completing her residency training in Phoenix and will return to California in the summer of 2017.

Angela completed her Bachelor of Music degree at CSU Long Beach in 2006 and the Band Instrument Repair Diploma program at Red Wing in 2007. In addition to holding a founding oboe section position with the Orchestra Collective of Orange County, Angela freelances within the greater Los Angeles area in many local orchestras and musical productions. Angela also teaches oboe and reed making at The Lesson Lab in Long Beach and works full-time repairing woodwind instruments by appointment at her home in Lakewood.

Leslie Gerbasi Schroerlucke has enjoyed a successful career both as a clarinetist and educator. As a student of the late Stanly Hasty, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Clarinet and the Performer’s Certificate at the Eastman School of Music. She has studied with many other prominent clarinetists including Mitchell Lurie at USC, Canadian clarinetist James Campbell, Frank Kowalsky at Florida State, and the late Peter Hadcock of the Boston Symphony. Leslie received a Master’s degree in Clarinet Performance at Florida State University. She served as Clarinetist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida under the direction of English conductor James Judd, where she also performed regularly with the Miami Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and was the Principal Clarinet of the Symphonia of the Americas. While in Florida, she premiered several works at Miami’s New Music Festival and served on the faculty of Florida International University, Broward Community College, and the New World School of the Arts. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at UC Riverside.

Leslie has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, American Ballet Theater, Moscow Ballet, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony, Redlands and Long Beach Symphonies, the Spoleto Opera Festival, Festivale Sperimentale in Spoleto, Italy as well as with many artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennet, Peter Nero, Richard Stoltzman, Eddie Daniels, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and others. She has performed as a soloist, clinician, and chamber musician in Brazil, Yugoslavia, and the United Kingdom. Leslie is currently a performer and board member of the Orange County Clarinet Choir with most recent performances at the International Clarinetfest 2016 in Lawrence, Kansas, and in Assisi, Italy in 2013.

After moving to California in 1998, Schroerlucke pursued a K-12 music credential from Cal Poly in 2001 and a Master’s in Music Education from Boston University in 2010. Schroerlucke currently serves as one of two lead Visual and Performing Arts teachers for the Walnut Valley Unified School District. As the band director at Chaparral Middle School in Diamond Bar, California she has worked to bring quality musical experiences to her students and national recognition to the program which includes performances at the Kennedy Center at the John Philip Sousa Festival in 2015 and at the Percy Grainger Festival at Chicago Symphony Hall in 2011. While serving as Chair of Chaparral’s Fine Arts Department, she was instrumental both in the school’s recognition by the state of California as an exemplary arts program and in receiving NAMM’s SupportMusic Merit Award for Chaparral’s music programs in 2015 and 2016.

Schroerlucke has held the Principal Clarinet position with the Orange County Symphony since 2011 under Conductor David Rentz and is excited to continue her involvement as Principal Clarinet with the Orchestra Collective of Orange County.

Tracey Siepser (they/them) started playing bassoon in childhood as soon as their fingers could reach the keys of the instrument. It was love at first sound. After studying Bassoon Performance at the University of Miami in Florida, they played professionally with orchestras and as a soloist throughout South Florida until moving to Southern California in 2008.

Today Tracey lives in the Upland, CA area and you can often find them performing with the Orchestra Collective of Orange County and other orchestras and chamber music groups throughout the SoCal area, in OCofOC Board meetings as a founding collective member, helping with tech and fundraising for non-profits, and crafting elegant chainmaille jewelry. Contact them with any questions at tracey.siepser at gmail.

Jason graduated from Minnesota State Southeast Technical with a degree in Instrument Repair. Jason started his career as a Brass Repair Technician working for Best Instrument Repair, the largest instrument repair shop in the Bay Area. Jason’s next big career brought him home to Southern California to work at Kanstul Musical Instruments in Anaheim, CA. He worked his way up to building trombone bells and slides until the closing of the company. Jason is currently a Class C Machinist in Brea, CA and the Director of the Fullerton College Stingers Pep Band.