Robert Zelickman
Alyze Dreiling
Monday, August 10, 2026
12 PM
Joanne Stohs is a freelance violist who play in chamber groups and orchestras in the San Diego area. She is also a piano teacher and accompanist. She has a bachelor's degree in piano and viola performance from BYU and a master's degree in piano performance from Washington University in St. Louis.
Robert Zelickman, clarinetist, has been teaching and performing in San Diego since 1982. He is a member of the bass clarinet quartet JAMB and co-director of Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble. Robert was a member of Orchestra Nova for 23 seasons and has performed with the San Diego Symphony and the San Diego Opera.
Robert retired from UC San Diego (1983–2015) where he lectured on Jewish Music, conducted the Wind Ensemble and performed regularly, premiering many new compositions. He currently performs in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout San Diego.
Zelickman earned his BA at UCLA and an MFA at Cal Arts. He studied with Hugo Raimondi, Michele Zukovsky and Ronald Rueben.
Alyze Dreiling is an award-winning conductor, and accomplished violinist and violist in San Diego.She is the conductor of the New City Sinfonia, the CYO (Civic Youth Orchestra) Symphonic Orchestra, the North Coast Strings and the Grossmont College String Ensemble where she is an adjunct faculty member. In addition to her title as Conductor Emeritus of the YPO Soloists Ensemble, Festival Orchestra and Sinfonietta, she was also the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of Classics for Kids, a fully professional orchestra performing specialty youth concerts in the San Diego area. Ms. Dreiling maintains a private teaching studio and is a member of the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC) the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), and the National Piano Guild. She also serves as an adjudicator for the MTAC Certificate of Merit program.
Ms. Dreiling won the 2019–2020 1st prize in the American Prize Competition, conductor of youth orchestra division.
Ms. Dreiling was an invited semi-finalist to the European Union International Conducting Competition in 2018, held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has attended masterclasses with Zoltan Rozsnyai, Gunther Neuhold, Neil Thomson and Dr. Scott Weiss and Philip Greenberg and she has conducted orchestras in Sofia, Bulgaria and Florence, Italy.
Free concerts at noon every Monday year-round . . . no wonder the Mini-Concerts are the longest-running and one of the most popular classical music series at the library! This series was founded by Glenna Hazleton in 1970 at the Athenaeum, and has been going strong ever since. The concerts feature both local and touring musicians, prize-winning students, university music faculty members, local chamber ensembles. . . and the repertoire also includes jazz, folk, and world music. There are no reservations, no tickets . . . just line up at the side door of the Athenaeum before noon. (Donations are always welcome!) Mini-Concerts take place every Monday at noon and last about an hour.
The concerts will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for these events. Doors open at 11:40 a.m. Last entry is at 12:10 p.m. or once capacity is reached. Seating is first-come; first-served. Reservations are not necessary, but seating is limited.