Since arriving at OCSA in 2017, Dr. Reithmeier has overseen, produced and directed numerous seasons of Classical Voice Conservatory opera productions, scenes programs, virtual projects, concert seasons and International tours, which have exposed hundreds of students to an education in the vocal arts, unmatched at the high school level. His private students have gained acceptance to study in leading vocal arts studios at USC, the San Francisco Conservatory, Chapman University, in addition to consistently earning high honors in adjudication and competitions. 

In celebration of OCSA's 35th Anniversary Dr. Reithmeier had the pleasure of leading 8 of OCSA's conservatories in Symphony of Dreams, a cross-disciplinary explorative gala concert of storytelling through opera, dance, and spoken word that celebrates the artist on a hero's journey and reimagines the dream of a life dedicated to the arts.

Regarded as a versatile performer, Dr. Reithmeier has distinguished himself with notable opera, operetta, and concert organizations throughout California. Highlights from recent seasons include Pacific Opera Project's critically-acclaimed post-pandemic production of Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, as well as serving as baritone soloist for the St. John’s Bach Cantata Vespers in Orange, Calif. Dr. Reithmeier has performed more than 25 baritone roles in opera, oratorio, musical theatre and operetta. Recent performances include Ich habe genug (BWV 82), Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11), as well as Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem and Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis the requiems of Duruflé and Faure, in addition to numerous productions of Handel’s Messiah. Other appearances with the Operetta Foundation, Opera a La Carte, Soka Performing Arts Center, and Kallisti Ensemble have been met with high acclaim. 

In addition, Dr. Reithmeier is a two-time winner of the Beverly Hills National Consortium Auditions, a winner of the NATS-LA Gwendolyn Roberts Auditions, and was a Western-Regional finalist in the NATS-AA competition and has given recitals throughout Southern California. Dr. Reithmeier is a sought-after competition judge, having served on the adjudication panel for the Los Angeles Music Center's Spotlight Awards, California Music Educators State Solo and Ensemble Festival, and National Association of Teachers of Singing Los Angeles Chapter Collegiate Auditions and Student Evaluation Program as well as regular invitations to adjudicate collegiate competitions and present master classes. Since 2016, Dr. Reithmeier has served on the Executive Board of NATS-LA, the nation’s largest chapter of the National Association of the Teachers of Singing. Prior to coming to OCSA, Dr. Reithmeier served on the faculties of Azusa Pacific University and Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, Calif.

2022 has been the year of major changes for the nerdy, classical piano, perfect-pitch, choir kid. Mr. Boyer is tremendously excited to take on the world with his debut EP, Caseload, a series of songs he wrote to help him cope with the overwhelm of the world around him. The five-song collection was recorded with his band of CalArts comrades and engineered, mixed, and mastered by Robert Adam Stevenson of A Silent Film at Revolver Recordings. 

Mr. Boyer’s teaching philosophy as a vocalist is built upon the idea that “the music we learn should never be the only thing that is beautiful.” He believes that ultimately community is at the forefront of learning, and when that is established right away the learning process becomes infinitely easier in every way, and much more fun! Mr. Boyer understands from firsthand experience as a graduate at OCSA.

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Mr. Chang’s works have been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Louisville Chamber Choir, the NouLou Chamber Players, the Louisville Ballet, the Louisville Orchestra, and the Britt Festival Orchestra. He is the youngest three-time BMI Student Composer Awards winner in the history of the competition (’02, ’05, and ’07). He won five ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards (’01, ’02, ’04, ’05, and ’06). He was awarded a $50,000 scholarship as a Davidson Fellow Laureate by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development in 2002.

His "Symphony (Classical)", premiered by the Louisville Orchestra in January 2015, is the subject of “Episode 9: First Symphony” of the Music Makes a City Now PBS documentary cycle. "Between Heaven and Earth", in collaboration with Kurdish Baghdad-native visual artist Vian Sora, was premiered by the Louisville Orchestra & Louisville Chamber Choir in February 2018. "Cryptogenic Infrastructure Fantasy", for violin, clarinet, piano, and timpani, received its premiere by Roman Rabinovich & Diana, Alexander, & Franklin Cohen, at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in Cleveland, Ohio in June 2018.

Mr. Chang's new Piano Concerto "The Empress", for piano and full orchestra, was premiered on June 17, 2022, in Jacksonville, Oregon, by the Britt Festival Orchestra, conducted by Teddy Abrams. Mr. Chang also works as a freelance professional musician. He is Louisville Orchestra’s first-call pianist and worked as an orchestral pianist for the 2022 Britt Orchestra following the premiere of his Piano Concerto. He is an instructor in the Pianist Program in the Instrumental Music Conservatory at Orange County School of the Arts. His publishing company is Sebastian Press, registered under the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers (ASCAP).

Ms. Dyson’s vocal agility is beyond compare and has earned her the privilege of sharing a stage with many talented artists such as jazz and blues legend Barbara Morrison, and singer and actress Reba McEntire. She continues to showcase her vocal diversity throughout the world, and is often featured as a soloist in performances and recordings. She is honored to have performed in ensembles for gifted conductors like Gustavo Dudamel, John Williams, Ludwig Wicki, John Alexander, Dr. Robert Istad, Keith Lockhart, and Carl St. Clair, in performances before large audiences in venues like the Hollywood Bowl, Staples Center, and many more.

Ms. Gonzalez also serves as the Director of Music at St. James' Episcopal Church in South Pasadena where she directs the adult choir and the St. James’ Choristers. In her spare time, Ms. Gonzalez enjoys reading fiction, walking in nature, and spending time with her infamous husband, Mr. Gonzalez, and their two children, Lucy and George.

Mr. Norman is a current member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, with whom he has appeared as a tenor soloist in both Handel’s Messiah and Shawn Kirchner’s Songs of Ascent at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. As a member of the LA Master Chorale, he had the privilege of singing with John Williams on the soundtrack for Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker.

A specialist in the operatic character tenor repertoire, Mr. Norman has performed as Goro in Madama Butterfly (Opera San Jose, Dayton Opera, Salt Marsh Opera); Pedrillo in Abduction from the Seraglio (Dayton Opera, Opera Orlando, Festival Opera, Salt Marsh Opera); Beppe in Pagliacci (Dayton Opera, Festival Opera); Pang in Turandot (Dayton Opera); and Caius in Falstaff (Opera San Jose). He also has a robust history in modern and American Opera having performed as Parris in The Crucible (Opera Santa Barbara); Nika Magadoff in The Consul (Dayton Opera); Steve Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Santa Barbara, Union Avenue Opera, Fresno Grand Opera); and Little Bat in Susannah (Festival Opera, Pasadena Opera). He performed in the U.S. Premiere of Gavin Bryars’ Marilyn Forever with Long Beach Opera as one of the two Tritones, and his performance of Toby in Sweeney Todd with Fresno Grand Opera was hailed as having taken the audience to “emotional places that I don’t think a non-opera-singer could match” (Fresno Bee). 

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Ms. Paulino has been teaching in the Musical Theatre and Classical Voice conservatories at OCSA since 2016. She also has been a director, choreographer, and voice teacher and director at several studios in the area. Ms. Paulino is constantly grateful for the opportunity to share knowledge with her students, and be richly fulfilled by watching their talents grow and their dreams and goals come to fruition.

As a singer, Mr. Reeder has performed with many choirs including Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble, the Gesualdo Quintet, Tonality, the Golden Bridge, Laguna Beach Chamber Singers, the Cal Voce Singers, and the Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles. He’s been in backing choirs for diverse artists such as Andrea Bocelli, M83, A.R. Rahman, Juanes, and Biffy Clyro. He’s also had the opportunity to sing in ensembles under the direction of conductors such as Carl Saint Clair, Eugene Kohn, James Conlan, Suzi Digby, John Williams, and Eric Whitacre at venues such as the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Mr. Reeder serves as the choir director for Community Presbyterian Church of San Juan Capistrano.

She was a prestigious Stern Fellow at Songfest in 2010, won the Concerto Competition at California State University, Fullerton, and sang the Bachianias Brasilieras with the Cello Choir at Cal State Fullerton under the direction of Bongshin Ko. She also has performed as a guest soloist with the Corona Symphony and the Opera San Luis Obispo’s Broadway by the Sea concert.

As a passionate chamber musician, Dr. Shin performed and studied at the Aspen Music Festival as a recipient of the Lynette Gutner Memorial Fellowship under Prof. Rita Sloan. She also appeared in many music festivals such as Song Fest, Grandin Festival, Brevard Music Festival, Bay View Music Festival, and the Vancouver International Song Institute in Canada. In summer of 2015 through 2022, she was invited as a repetitor to the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and she returned to the festival in the summer of 2022. In 2015, she was also invited to the International Double Reed Society Conference in Tokyo, Japan as a performer. Dr. Shin has been actively involved in choral ensembles. She was the pianist for the University of Southern California (USC) Thornton Chamber Singers under the direction of Jo-Michael Scheibe, a former national president of the American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA).

Dr. Shin received a Master of Music in collaborative piano with a full scholarship under the instruction of Kenneth Griffiths from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in keyboard collaborative arts as a teaching assistant under Dr. Alan Smith at the Thornton School of Music at USC. She was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda by Eta Chapter of the National Music Honors Society in 2017, and is a recipient of the Gwendolyn and Adolph Koldofsky Memorial Endowed Scholarship, Keyboard Collaborative Arts Ensemble Award, and the Keyboard Collaborative Arts Department Award at the USC.

Dr. Shin has served as a principal musician at the University of California Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of Music. She currently works at Concordia University, Irvine where she is director of Chamber Music and Collaborative Piano, a vocal and instrumental coach/collaborative pianist, director of the Concordia Music Competition and the Summer Chamber Music Camp. Dr. Shin also works at OCSA as an instructor and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach as a pianist.

Ms. Wills’ concert work includes a self-created program of songs and letters of Emily Dickinson through Pasadena’s Boston Court Emerging Artist Recital Series; Bernstein in Concert with the Los Angeles-based Opera Buffs, Inc; Quartetto and Opera in the Park with the Palm Springs Opera Guild; the role of Micaëla in the Opera Buffs' gala fundraiser, Carmen in Concert, alongside Rod Gilfry, Charles Castronovo, and Kelley O'Connor; the role of Susan B. Anthony in Laura Karpman's Balls, presented in The Industry's First Take Concert; and the world premiere of Nimbus by Rand Steiger at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with The Industry; and the role of Marthe Marker in the USC premier concert reading of the new opera Frau Schindler by Thomas Morse and Ken Cazan. Past performances as a soloist include recitals at the Tanglewood Music Festival, concerts with the USC Concert Band, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Bob Cole Conservatory

On the opera stage, Ms. Wills has been seen in the role of Mother in Lyric Opera of Orange County’s Hansel and Gretel; the role of Marcellina in a tour of Figaro's American Adventure with LA Opera's Outreach and Education Program; the role of Fiordiligi in LTD Opera's inaugural performance of Mozart's Così fan tutte; the role of Ariadne in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at the USC Thornton School of Music;; the role of Miss Crisp in Henze’s The English Cat and the role of Fortuna in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at USC; the role of Lady Billows in excerpts of Britten's Albert Herring with the TMC Orchestra as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center; the role of the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with the Bob Cole Opera Institute at California State University, Long Beach; as well as numerous opera scenes at the Aspen Music Festival.  

Ms. Wills was honored to be a District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as well as a finalist in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition for two consecutive years. She was awarded third place in the NATS Gwendolyn Roberts Young Artist Competition, a Young Musicians Foundation Scholarship, and the Theodore Presser Scholarship in Music. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. She holds a Master of Music in vocal arts from USC and a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach.