Dr. Mary Ritch
French Horn Performance and Music Instruction
www.maryritch.com
Principal Teachers
●James Decker, University of Southern California
●A. David Krehbiel, San Francisco Conservatory
●Nancy Cochran Block, University of Missouri-Kansas City
●William Scharnberg, University of Oklahoma
●D. Bruce Heim, Oklahoma City Symphony
Professional Performance Experience (selected)
●Brass & The Bible Christian musical duo, Hot Springs, AR
●Solo & ensemble player at churches, missions and senior living facilities, Hot Springs, AR
●Utah Festival Opera, Logan, UT (principal & third horn)
●The Colors of Christmas tour, Palm Desert, CA (principal horn)
●Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl (principal horn)
●Studio player, television and film projects in Los Angeles
●Freelancer — Kansas City, San Francisco & Los Angeles metropolitan areas; and Central & Southern Arkansas
●Original member, Symphony in the Flint Hills, Kansas (third horn)
●St. Joseph Symphony, St. Joseph, Missouri (asst. principal & utility horn)
●Kansas City Camerata (fourth horn)
Student/Community Performance Experience (selected)
●Arkansas Master’Singers (principal horn)
●Hot Springs Concert Band ( principal horn)
●Little Rock Winds (third horn)
●Natural State Brass Band, Little Rock, AR (first tenor horn)
●West Coast Classical Orchestra’s 2019 Central European Tour, Palmdale, CA (principal horn)
●Tehachapi Symphony, Tehachapi, CA (principal horn)
●Symphony of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA (principal horn)
●Asst. Principal, American Youth Symphony, Los Angeles, CA (Zubin Mehta, conductor)
●Performance of Brahms Horn Trio featured on KUSC radio broadcast
●Principal, University of Southern California Opera Orchestras
●Principal, University of Missouri-Kansas City Symphonic, Chamber & Opera Orchestras
●Solo concerto performance with UMKC Orchestra
●Eight solo recitals in Kansas City and Los Angeles
Awards and Honors (selected)
●Recipient of numerous significant performance scholarships at UMKC, San Francisco Conservatory and University of Southern California
●Outstanding Senior Instrumentalist Award, University of Missouri-KC
●Winner, University of Missouri-Kansas City Concerto-Aria Competition
●3rd place, Midwest Regional Horn Workshop Solo Competition
●Winner, annual Sigma Alpha Iota Solo Competitions
Education
●University of Southern California (DMA, Horn Performance)
(Minors: music history, music education and music technology)
●University of Southern California (MM, Horn Performance)
●San Francisco Conservatory (master’s studies in horn performance)
●University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory (BM, Horn Performance)
●University of Oklahoma (bachelor’s studies in chemical engineering and music performance)
●Oklahoma Baptist University (bachelor’s studies in calculus while in high school)
Non-Performance Experience
●Orchestral Music and Event Orchestra Contractor, Hot Springs Village, AR
●Published author of trade articles; writer/creator of LAHornClub.org, website/blog about the history of the Los Angeles Horn Club
●Adjudicator, Utah State Fair Music Competition (grade levels: 7th through college)
●Librarian, Wendell Hoss Memorial Library of the Los Angeles Horn Club
(Inventoried and catalogued over 1,200 solo and ensemble works for horn; worked with such noted film composers as Elmer Bernstein, Bruce Broughton and Michael Giacchino to prepare L.A. Horn Club’s new works for publication (copyright research, typesetting music, preparing publicity campaign, advertising, mass mailings, internet publishing and preparing convention displays)
●Legal secretary/certificated paralegal/genealogist/researcher, full and part-time positions in FL, MO and CA
Special Skills (Selected)
●Performance and pedagogy skills in horn, all brass instruments and piano
●Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) and WordPerfect Office
●Finale and Sibelius music notation software
●Performer, Vision & Logic Audio music sequencing software
●Macromedia Dreamweaver web publishing software
●Adobe Photoshop image editing software
●Filemaker Pro database software