Susan Rheingans maintains a busy private voice studio in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and has been on the voice faculty of Settlement Music School of Philadelphia since 2001. Her students are frequently awarded leading roles in school musicals and community theater productions, participate in high school apprentice programs at local and regional opera companies and are chosen to sing with city, county, district, regional and state honor choirs. They have often been recognized with awards at auditions sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Ms. Rheingans' students have also gone on to major in Vocal Performance, Music Education, Music Therapy and Musical Theater, and have been offered merit scholarships, at major conservatory and university programs, including the Eastman School of Music, NYU, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, PACE, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and Pennsylvania State University, as well as local programs at Temple University, Rider University and West Chester University. She is delighted when her students continue to fulfill their love of singing in choirs, glee clubs, barbershop quartets and musicals as they pursue other professions.
In 2007, Ms. Rheingans was honored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts with a Teacher Recognition Certificate. She is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists and a member of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, where she was Chapter President from 2008 to 2012.
Ms. Rheingans holds a Master of Arts degree in Vocal Performance (Opera) from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from Chapman University. Her continuing education studies include workshops sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, classes at Shenandoah University in the pedagogy of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) and, most recently, a seminar on musical theater belt technique at Pennsylvania State University.
Ms. Rheingans' students have also gone on to major in Vocal Performance, Music Education, Music Therapy and Musical Theater, and have been offered merit scholarships, at major conservatory and university programs, including the Eastman School of Music, NYU, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, PACE, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and Pennsylvania State University, as well as local programs at Temple University, Rider University and West Chester University. She is delighted when her students continue to fulfill their love of singing in choirs, glee clubs, barbershop quartets and musicals as they pursue other professions.
In 2007, Ms. Rheingans was honored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts with a Teacher Recognition Certificate. She is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists and a member of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, where she was Chapter President from 2008 to 2012.
Ms. Rheingans holds a Master of Arts degree in Vocal Performance (Opera) from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from Chapman University. Her continuing education studies include workshops sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, classes at Shenandoah University in the pedagogy of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) and, most recently, a seminar on musical theater belt technique at Pennsylvania State University.