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Music Director With Ventura County Symphony Wins Grammy

The new music director for a Ventura County based symphony has something big to celebrate. Michael Christie was part of a team which won the Grammy for “Best Opera Recording” Sunday.

He was the conductor of the opera “The Revolution of Steve Jobs” which world premiered with the Santa Fe Opera. Christie was up for four Grammys for his work with that opera project.

Christie is the new music director for the Thousand Oaks based New West Symphony.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.