 From 1987-2016, the orchestra's Summer Festival concerts took place at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine, California.Carl St.Clair has been the orchestra's Music Director since 1990.The orchestra was founded in 1979 by Keith Clark, a former student and assistant conductor of Roger Wagner at the Los Angeles Master Chorale and principal guest conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, in his Fullerton, California home's kitchen with a grant of $2,000 and some phone calls to local musicians.