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INTERMEDIATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR
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Ulli Reiner, is conductor and co-founder of the San Diego
Youth Philharmonic Orchestra-Intermediate Symphony and a faculty member of Palomar College,
Concertmaster with the Palomar Symphony Orchestra; founder, Orchestra Manager and Concertmaster of the Poway Community Symphony Orchestra
and Orchestra Director with the Poway Unified School District. She currently teaches Orchestra and Band at Twin Peaks
and Bernardo Heights Middle Schools in Poway.
A graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Conservatory of Music, she received a Bachelor of Music Eduation degree with emphasis in violin and viola performance and
went on to graduate study at San Diego State University, the Univesity of Sourthern California and the University of San Diego. Her
violin and viola instructors include Melvin Ritter, Tiberius Klausner, Yikiko Kamei, Noumi Fisher, Milton Thomas and her father
Rudolf Reiner who attended the Bruckner Conservatory of Music in Linz Austria with whom she began her musical studies on cornet
at the age of 3 1/2 and violin studies at the age of 11. In addition to violin, she played cornet in both elementary
and junior high school. She was a regular member of the Deutschmeister Brass Band of St. Louis and played in her church
brass quintet.
As a professional violinist, she has performed with
the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, St. Louis Municipal Opera Orchestra, the St. Louis Philharmonic and the
Alexandria String Quartet. As a certified private instructor of Suzuki and traditional violin, her students have won
numerous awards and scholarships leading to professional careers in music.
Ms. Reiner is a member of the Suzuki Association of
the Americas and the Suzuki Association of San Diego, served on the Board of Directors of the American String Teachers Association
and is an adjudicator for the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. She currently hosts and founded
the PUSD Middle School Orchestra Festival with guest adjudicator Jung-Ho Pak and also founded and hosts the annual PUSD String
Solo/Ensemble Festival. She was recognized in 1991 and 1993 by Outstanding Young Women of America and in 2000 was elected
to the prestigious Who's Who of American Teachers. Since 1995 she has led successful international concert tours to
Salzburg, Vienna, London and Paris conducting the CYO Chamber Strings and her "Mostly Mozart Orchestra" comprised of students
from the Poway Unified School District. In 2005 she was invited to conduct at the American String Teachers Convention
in Reno Nevada and was the guest conductor for the San Diego Unified School District Honor Orchestra.
Beginning in the winter of 2009 Ms. Reiner will conduct
the Poway Community Symphonette, a chamber orchestra, part of the Poway Community Symphony Orchestra.
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Primary Strings Conductor
Diana
Turner, is the conductor for the Primary Strings. She began her musical studies at the age of 10 in the
Poway Unified School District music program on the violin. Most recently, Ms. Turner received her Bachelor of Music
Performance degree from San Diego State University and is currently continuing her graduate studies also at SDSU.
Having performed locally with the Civic Youth Orchestra, Grossmont Symphony, San Diego State Symphony and the San Diego
Youth Symphony, Ms. Turner also travelled internationally with these groups. Ms. Turner also has a private studio in
the Poway area and teaches at Bertrands Music in Poway.
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