Moon Light is the Oliverson family, called “The most talented and entertaining family since the Osmonds” by L.A. Talk Radio. Hailed as a “Modern Mozart” Moon Light features eighteen-year-old Aubree Oliverson—a 2016 Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a YoungArts National Winner for Violin Performance. She has appeared on National Public Radio’s popular program From The Top four times, and was also an invited soloist at their year end Gala in Boston. Aubree was a winner in the American Protege International Strings Competition and soloed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at age twelve. She made her symphony solo debut with the Utah Symphony at age eleven, and has since soloed with them several times, including her performance of the complete Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at age thirteen to multiple standing ovations. Aubree won Utah’s Best-of-State Award as Utahʼs Top Entertainer and performed at the Salt Palace at age twelve. She was a winner in the the Hennings-Fischer, Utah Chamber Artists, and Pasadena Orchestra Young Artist Competitions, a Utah Stradivarius Competition winner, a Utah Symphony Salute-to-Youth winner, a National Finalist in the Music Teachers National Association Competition, a Strulberg International Strings Competition Finalist, and first runner-up at the Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Aubree was Concertmaster for the Gifted Music School Orchestra of Salt Lake City for two years, and at age fifteen was one of only a select few students throughout the world invited to attend the Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles—where through competitive audition she won the position of Concertmaster for the Colburn Virtuosi Orchestra, and served in that position for two years until her high school graduation. Aubree has soloed with a wide variety of orchestras and musical groups, performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center, New World Center, and Sundance Film Festival, and is a highly sought after chamber musician who has performed with artists such Joseph Silverstein, Stefan Jackiw, and Zlatomir Fung. Aubree is a multiple state and national composition winner and along with her father has co-composed and recorded six acclaimed CD albums and several music videos. Aubree has had master classes from, Joseph Silverstein, Andres Cardenes, David Kim, Laurent Korcia, Evgenia Epstein, Stefan Jackiw, Scott St. John, Peter Oundjian, Augustin Hadelich; she is a former student of Deborah Moench, Eugene Watanabe, Danielle Belen, and currently studies with Robert Lipsett. Aubree is a fellowship recipient and guest performer at the Innsbrook Summer music camp and Aspen Music Festival this summer before she begins her bachelors degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in the Fall of 2016.
Besides his awards and recognitions as a pianist, composer, and producer, Dr. Stephen Oliverson was a collegiate and all-state athlete, a distinguished military officer and graduate, and is also an award-winning educator including Principal-of-the-Year, National Distinguished School Principal, and the Utah Huntsman Excellence-In-Education Award winner. Stephen and Aubree’s music has been featured on stage and radio, and they have performed in hundreds of venues from Seattle to Washington D.C., which locally include the Sundance Film Festival, Salt Palace, Gardner Hall, BYU Education Week, Gallivan Center, and Temple Square. Moon Light has several beautifully produced music videos on their YouTube channel, three having reached the top ten on video music charts. Stephen’s two youngest children, Andrew (15) and Lily (11) are also excellent musicians and join their sister and father in many Moon Light productions. Andrew and Lily have both won awards for composition and were both
part of a select students few from South, Central, and North America chosen to participate in Suzuki Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Minneapolis. Lily and Andrew are members of the Gifted Music School of Salt Lake City, where Andrew has been a soloist and recently received a superior rating at the State High School Association Music Festival. Locally, Moon Light has performed at the Salt Palace, Gallivan Center, BYU Education Week, Temple Square, Sundance Film Festival, Gardner Hall, and The Oliverson family has performed in over 100 schools throughout the intermountain West, motivating and inspiring children to work hard and participate in music.
“An exceptional musical team!” (Ed Reichel, Reichel Recommends).
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