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. Ms. Rheingans’ voice students are regularly accepted, and offered merit scholarships, to major conservatory and university vocal programs, including the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and Pennsylvania State University, as well as local programs at Westminster Choir College, Temple University, The University of the Arts and West Chester University.
Her students have gone on to major in Vocal Performance, Music Education, Music Therapy and Musical Theater, as well as fulfilling their love of singing in choirs, glee clubs, barbershop quartets and musicals as they pursue other professions..
Ms. Rheingans’ 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. Her students have often been recognized with awards at auditions sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
In 2007, she was honored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts with a Teacher Recognition Certificate. Ms. Rheingans is a member of the New Jersey and Greater Philadelphia Chapters of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and was president of the New Jersey Chapter from 2008 to 2012.
Ms. Rheingans holds a Master of Arts degree in Vocal Performance 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 and classes at Shenandoah University in the pedagogy of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM), including pop, rock and musical theater styles.
Her students have gone on to major in Vocal Performance, Music Education, Music Therapy and Musical Theater, as well as fulfilling their love of singing in choirs, glee clubs, barbershop quartets and musicals as they pursue other professions..
Ms. Rheingans’ 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. Her students have often been recognized with awards at auditions sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
In 2007, she was honored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts with a Teacher Recognition Certificate. Ms. Rheingans is a member of the New Jersey and Greater Philadelphia Chapters of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and was president of the New Jersey Chapter from 2008 to 2012.
Ms. Rheingans holds a Master of Arts degree in Vocal Performance 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 and classes at Shenandoah University in the pedagogy of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM), including pop, rock and musical theater styles.