ULLI REINER - manager, founder and concertmaster of the Poway
Community Symphony Orchestra is also a co-founder of the San Diego Youth Philharmonic and Civic Youth Orchestras. Ms. Reiner
is an adjunct faculty member of Palomar College, Concertmaster of the Palomar Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Director with
the Poway Unified School District.
A
graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, she received a Bachelor of Music Education degree
with emphasis in violin and viola performance and went on to graduate study at San Diego State University, the University
of Southern California, and the University of San Diego. She has studied violin and viola with Melvin Ritter, Tiberius Klausner,
Yukiko Kamei, Noumi Fisher, Milton Thomas and her father, Rudolf Reiner.
As a professional violinist, she has performed with the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera, Starlight Opera,
San Diego Chamber Orchestra, St. Louis Municipal Opera, 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, Suzuki Association of San Diego, served on the Board of Directors
of the American String Teachers Association and served as an adjudicator for the Southern California School Band and Orchestra
Association. She was recognized in 1991 and again in 1993 by Outstanding Young Women of America and in 2000 was elected to
the prestigious Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Since 1995 she has led successful international concert tours of Salzburg,
Vienna, London, and Paris conducting the Civic Youth Orchestra Chamber Strings and her "Mostly Mozart Orchestra" comprised
of students from the Poway Unified School District. Most recently, she was invited to conduct at the American String Teachers
National Convention in Reno, Nevada, and was the guest conductor for the San Diego Unified School District Honor Orchestra.
Starting in 2009, Ms. Reiner will conduct
the Poway Community Symphonette, a chamber orchestra for the PCSO.
