Meet the Artists

Donna Young is the Founding Director of the Los Robles Children’s Choir which she developed into a four-choir, multi-level organization over a period of 15 years from 1997-2012. During her tenure as Artistic Director, the choir toured internationally in England, Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic. National tours included Denver/Colorado Springs, Nashville with a performance at the Grand Ole Opry, and New York City where they sang in Carnegie Hall.

Mrs. Young is the proud recipient of the 2003 Excellence in the Arts Encore Award, presented by the City of Thousand Oaks Arts Commission for her work with the Los Robles Children’s Choir. She has served as a clinician for children’s choir festivals and has directed children’s choirs in churches and choruses in both schools and church settings including the United Methodist
Church Westlake Village where she also served on the faculty for the Pizazz Music Camp.
Mrs. Young taught voice and piano to private students and was the owner of music schools in Ventura and Santa Paula. For several summers, she taught music for the Creative Arts Summer Program in Ventura.

Ms. Young studied Music Education at the University of Maryland and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Pepperdine University where she studied under and served as student assistant to their Distinguished Professor of Choral Music, Dr. Roger Wagner.

Los Robles Children’s Choir
The mission of Los Robles Children’s Choir is to strive for excellence in choral singing by awakening and encouraging the artistry in each child. This exploration of the children’s artistic essence takes place in an atmosphere of mutual respect and encouragement. The performances give the singers an opportunity to share their musical achievements and artistic sensitivities with an audience under artistic direction of Emma Roche.

Emma Roche holds music degrees from both Westminster Choir College and the USC Thornton School of Music. In 2017, Emma became a Roster Chorister and soloist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) performing in their regular season at Walt Disney Concert Hall with additional performances at the Hollywood Bowl and with the LA Philharmonic. Equally passionate about music education, Roche has 15 years of experience teaching at both the elementary and high school levels.

Pauline Frechette is a composer/performer with a foundation of playing in youth symphonies on violin, winning awards in piano competitions, touring Europe singing and dancing as a teen and studying acting in England. Born and raised in Northwest Indiana to French Canadian parents, she was one of eleven children. Her father, Frigon “Lou” Frechette was a theatre organist and accompanied the Black Hawks hockey games at the Chicago Stadium on the largest pipe organ in the world. Her great-grandfather, Josef Vezina, founded the Quebec Symphony.

Although blessed with many talents, Pauline feels her greatest gift and passion is composing music. Her works are best defined as “Neo-classical” DEF. “The use of modern techniques within the classical form composing music that reflects one’s own compositional voice.” Her compositions have been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, New West Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Pauline has composed songs for TV and Film and her musicals have been produced by The Goodspeed Opera House, the LaMirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and the Baruch Theatre in NYC.

As a singer/performer, she considers herself a 21st Century “troubadour” DEF. “a contemporary poet-musician.” As a rock singer, she performed under the alias “Raven Kane.” Her credits include singing on major motion pictures (Aladdin, Rent, Mermaids …) performing/recording with many legendary artists including MUSE for the 2012 Olympics; Beck, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen, Cher, and duets with Neil Diamond on his World Tour.

In solo concerts Pauline moves effortlessly from neo-classical piano pieces to romantic jazz and humorous theatrical songs. She loves taking her audience on an emotional journey with humor, passionate haunting melodies and stunning vocals, often playing a grand piano live to videos of ballet, jazz, art and other forms of storytelling. Frechette has brought cheering audiences to their feet with standing ovations at clubs and concert halls including the Troubadour in London, Carnegie Recital Hall in NYC and Thayer Hall in downtown L.A.

Pauline’s last two albums debuted on Billboard’s Top Ten Classical and Classical Crossover charts. She especially loves writing ballets. Her suite for symphony and ballet, “Tales of Winter” premiers Dec. 2021 with the New West Symphony and the California Contemporary Ballet company.

Pauline Frechette’s music is currently being played in over 125 countries and won the Silver Award in three categories for “Best Instrumental” at the International W.A.M. Awards 2021, and the Gold Award in 2021. Her music has over 14 million plays on the internet and has been #1 on the Reverbnation Classical charts nationally and globally for 3 years.

In 2021 Pauline was awarded the title “Ambassador for Peace through Music” by the Youth Education and Leadership Initiative (Y.E.L.I.) in Nigeria, Africa.

David Campbell
David Campbell’s arrangement work appears on more than 450 gold or platinum albums, including 18 Grammy Albums of the Year (nominees and winners). His film work has earned 5 Oscar music nominations, winning 2 Oscars for music.  Current film releases include Cinderella and Tom Hanks’ Finch.

He studied viola with William Primrose, and played several seasons in the American Symphony, under Leopold Stokowski.

As an arranger, Campbell began a string of successes from the ’70s that has continued to the present, on albums by James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Bette Midler, Linda Ronstadt, Leonard Cohen, Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morissette, Green Day, Ricky Martin, Aerosmith, Evanescence, Sea Change and Morning Phase (Beck), Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Josh Groban, Adele and others – as well as recent #1s  from Ariana Grande, Elton John, Adele and Billie Eilish (with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic)

In 2016, he co-composed with Pharrell Williams “Rules of the Game”, a full length ballet, commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with Campbell conducting. He arranged and conducted music for both the 2000 and 2012 Olympic closing ceremonies.