Emilia Lopez-Yanez

With work spanning from video games to feature films to Children's CDs, Emilia Lopez-Yañez is an up-and-coming artist sharing her music on the international stage. After completing her Graduate Certificate and Master’s degree in Oboe Performance at USC, and her undergraduate degree in both Vocal and Oboe Performance through Chapman University, Lopez-Yañez has already amassed an impressive resume as a musical double threat. As a youngster, Emilia performed with the group, Me and the Kids. She now performs with the award-winning duo Ruth and Emilia. They were recently honored with the LA
Music Critic's, "2018 Best Children's Award" for The Spaceship That Fell in my Backyard. Their next album, "Kokowanda Bay" released in 2020 and won a Parent’s Choice Award, a Mom’s Choice Gold Award, a Grand Prize in the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and many more!
Emilia is the featured oboist on both award-winning albums, "Kochi" and "Heritage." Emilia is the featured artist on Art Tawanghar's new age single, "Distorted Time," released in 2017 on Major Hit Records.
As a first-time composer and producer, Emilia recently wrapped up her first video game score for City Block Builder. As a featured vocalist, you can hear Emilia singing on the One Little Finger Soundtrack, which won numerous international film festival laurels, and is now streaming around the world.
As a soprano, Emilia Lopez-Yañez was also featured as a soloist on the BILLBOARD charting, multi-award winning UNESCO World Peace album, "Action Moves People United." There she was featured on two tracks, and recorded alongside Allan White, from YES and actor Dan Aykroyd.  Lopez-Yañez made her on-stage debut in 2015, singing as a featured soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes on their opera gala concert. As president of Chapman’s premiere co-ed a cappella ensemble, Lopez-Yañez led SoundCheck to a first place win at the ICCA West Quarter-finals, as well as winning Semifinals and performing at the ICCA finals at the Beacon Theatre in New York. As a member of SoundCheck, Emilia was featured on AwesomenessTV in a Covergirl promotional music video for Pitch Perfect 2 alongside pop star Mahogany LOX. Lopez-Yañez also sang on Sound-Check’s recordings of “Usher Medley” and “The Dreydl Sing Along” and performed on stage at the Hollywood Bowl during ABBA Fest.
Before moving to San Francisco, Emilia Lopez-Yañez performed and taught around Southern California. She has performed with the Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra, San Diego City Ballet Orchestra, University of Southern California Orchestra, and University of Southern California Wind Symphony.  As a Grammy member, she has recorded with artists across the globe, incorporating the oboe in various genres of music. Emilia has been a part of albums that have been nominees for the Hollywood Music and Media Awards, and have won Global Music Awards. Through these recordings, she hopes to expand the musical genres in which oboe can be found, including Jewish-Indian fusion, Chill, and House.
Lopez-Yañez has performed in various halls across the United States, including Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Bovard Hall, Royce Hall, Bridges Auditorium, Lyceum Theater, Musco Center for the Arts, and California Center for the Arts. She has also performed abroad including the Estates Theater, Smetana Hall, Dvorak’s Home, and Teatro Aguascalientes.
Emilia is presently an adjunct music faculty member at Mira Costa College and Palomar College in the San Diego area while maintaining a private vocal and oboe studio and working as a freelance musician.