Rachel Ringeisen
Rachel Ringeisen serves as head orchestra director at Cedar Ridge High School, faculty member at Monarch Suzuki Academy, as well as maintaining a successful private studio. Rachel recently completed her Music and Human Learning degree (M.M) as a Sarah and Ernest Butler Excellence scholar, where she was the Preschool Coordinator for the University of Texas String Project and taught in a pilot string program at UT Elementary School. Additionally, Rachel developed an interdisciplinary curriculum in music and phonemic awareness as her master’s thesis. Rachel has studied topics in music research, string pedagogy and literature, school organization, classroom management, and music in therapy and special education. She was chosen as the UT representative to attend the 2011 Global Music Camp in Ghana.
Rachel received a B.M. in violin performance and pedagogy from the Wheaton College Conservatory (IL), where she was Concertmaster of the Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra, Senior Class Representative, a Presidential Honors Award recipient and a Memorial Merit Scholar. She served as an intern faculty member at Wheaton’s Community School of the Arts.
Rachel has studied with Sandy Yamamoto, Anne Akiko Meyers, Paul Zafer, Dr. Lee Joiner, and Elizabeth Suh-Lane. A scholarship recipient of the SAA, she trained with Rebecca Sandrok, Ann Montzka-Smelser, Nancy Jackson, Alice Joy Lewis, Dr. Laurie Scott, and Doris Preucil. She is a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Texas Music Educators Association, and the American String Teachers Association.