We are pleased to report that our graduating seniors have been accepted into some of the finest universities such as Juilliard School of Music, Indiana University, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, USC, Chapman University, and Eastman School of Music.

OCHSA offers master classes, open to the public at no charge this year, with distinguished singers, conductors and stage directors.  Our students have benefited or will benefit from such esteemed artists as:

In addition to master class opportunities, private voice lessons, and attendance at rehearsals and performances of local opera companies, OCHSA students are required to take four years of opera classes, including:

Robin Follman joined the Orange County High School of the Arts in 2002 and currently serves as director, Opera and Choral Conservatory. Considered one of the rising young talents in the operatic world today, internationally acclaimed soprano, Follman has appeared extensively in opera, concert, and oratorio in the United States, Europe and Asia. Gramophone highlighted her debut CD Robin Follman's Rare Verismo Arias as having "a dramatic prowess that tears into the heart of the style." Opera News hailed her as having "brought enchantingly pure tone, easy high range and rich musical style to her international-class Marguerite" and "a singer-actress fully worthy of that dual distinction" of her portrayal of Mimi in La Boheme. Recent engagements have included Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with Michigan Opera Theater, Mimi in La Boheme for both Opera Pacific and the Macau International Music Festival, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Santa Barbara Opera, and Carmina Burana in Portland, Oregon with the widely acclaimed dance troop, BodyVox

Her performance experience includes Tosca for the Florentine Opera, Micaela in Carmen for Houston Grand Opera, Opera Pacific and Madison Opera; First Lady in Die Zauberflöte for the Los Angeles Opera; Abigail Williams and Sarah Good in The Crucible for the Washington Opera; Mimi in La Boheme for the Macau International Music Festival, Opera Pacific, Fresno Grand Opera and Pamiro Opera; Musetta in La Boheme for New York City Opera, Opera Pacific, Florentine Opera, and Dayton Opera; Violetta in La Traviata with Hawaii Opera Theater; Nedda and the soprano soloist in Chris Mattaliano's production of Pagliacci; and Carmina Burana with Utah Opera and Nedda in Pagliacci for Gold Coast Opera; the Heroines in Les Côntes d'Hoffmann for both Toledo Opera and Piedmont Opera; Marguerite in Faust for Madison Opera, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Anna Glawari in The Merry Widow with Madison Opera and Valencienne with Opera Pacific and Indianapolis Opera. Other credits include Frasquita in Carmen with Baltimore Opera and Opera Pacific, Mrs. Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Despina in Cosi fan tutte with Indianapolis Opera.

In addition to her recently released solo CD Rare Verismo Arias (VOG/Qualiton) with Yves Abel conducting the English Chamber Orchestra, she can be heard on Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 82, with the William Hall Master Chorale (Angel). In 2004, she will team-up once again with Grammy Award-winning producer Michael Haas (Coral Fox, Prod.), conductor Yves Abel and the English Chamber Orchestra for a second solo CD and also a duet CD with Chinese tenor, Warren Mok.

A frequent visitor to the concert stage, Follman has appeared with thenglish Chamber Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, International Italian Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony. She recently appeared in recital with tenor Warren Mok in Taipei, Taiwan with the Purely Professional Orchestra in the National Cultural Center. In addition, she has performed the soprano solo in Rossini's Stabet Mater with the Macau International Music Festival in a live Asian broadcast, Serpina in La Serva Padrona with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Violetta in La traviata with the South Texas Symphony.

Follman has worked with such conductors as Carlo Donadio, Yves Abel, George Manahan, Francis Bonnin, Christopher Larkin, Christian Badea, James Meena, Daniel Beckwith, Steven Sloane, John DeMain, Joe Rescigno, Gunther Bauer-Skenk and Amy Chang.