Homeschool Performing Arts Program

PERFORMING ARTS CLASS
FALL SESSION INSTRUCTORS

EMMETT YOSHIOKA
Known affectionately as Hawaii’s “Mr. Music,” Emmett is a musician, composer, conductor, teacher and Honolulu entrepreneur. He began his musical career with piano lessons at the age of five and soon became a piano prodigy, performing on Hawaiian radio and television. Emmett attended the University of Southern California, where he received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in composition. A Po‘okela Award-winner for Diamond Head Theatre’s smash hits including The Will Rogers Follies, Crazy For You, Cabaret, The Pirates of Penzance, Evita, Guys & Dolls, and Funny Girl, Emmett holds a special place at Diamond Head Theatre for his auditioning, arranging and conducting skills. Emmett currently teaches privately students of all ages in various music disciplines at his home in Honolulu.

BILL OGILVIE
Bill is a dedicated actor, stage director and drama educator responsible for numerous large-scale productions of plays and musicals in Hawaii. Training in New York City included theatre/film acting at H/B Studios, theatre voice with Kristen Linkzater, musical theatre voice with Ron Clairmont, and stage combat with B.H. Barry. Opportunities have lured him to various nightclubs and theatres in Puerto Rico, New York, summer stock, bus and truck tours, “Hawaii 5-0”, “Magnum P.I.”, “Jake and the Fatman”, Booga Booga, many many commercials, directing at Diamond Head Theatre and Manoa Valley Theatre, as well as provides long and short-term Creative Drama residencies at various private and public high, middle and elementary schools. Bill also has privately coached several of Hawaii’s foremost public speakers, ranging from high-level executives to 8-year-old aspiring orators.

CANDACE YOSHIOKA
Candace has been studying tap since she was 4 years old. She
has trained with teachers such as Marion Jay Morrison, Jim Hutchinson, Alan Onickel, Lars Rosager, Mark Santoro, Charles Goddertz and Ray Hesselink. Candace moved to New York six years ago and is a 2001 graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She is pursuing her career in musical theatre and has been doing small productions within the city. While visiting home last summer, she was the assistant program director for Diamond Head Theatre’s Musical Theatre Experience Summer 2005 program. Candace was also the
assistant to the director and played the roles of Silly Girl and Flatware in the DHT production of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast. Candace will be choreographing Castle High School’s 42nd Street in winter 2006.