Mary Ritch

Education:
●University of Southern California (DMA, Horn Performance)
(Secondary areas of expertise: 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)

See resume on Indeed for more info: https://profile.indeed.com/p/maryr-9xq1ftl

Teaching and Administrative Experience:
●Private teaching in California and Kansas City
●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 newly-commissioned works for publication and sale, researched copyright issues, typeset music, and prepared publicity campaign, including advertising, mass mailings, internet publishing and convention displays)
●Legal secretary & certificated paralegal, various full and part-time positions in Florida, Missouri and California

See website for more info: maryritch.com

Professional Performance Experience (selected):
●Utah Festival Opera – principal and third horn
●Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl
●Studio player, various television and film projects
●Freelancer in Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Central & Southern Arkansas
●St. Joseph Symphony, St. Joseph, Missouri – asst. principal and utility horn
●Kansas City Camerata – fourth horn

Student Performance Experience (selected):
●Asst. Principal, American Youth Symphony (Zubin Mehta, conductor)
●Performance of Brahms Horn Trio featured on KUSC radio broadcast
●Principal, University of Southern California Opera Orchestra
●Principal, all three University of Missouri-Kansas City Orchestras
●Solo concerto performance with UMKC Orchestra
●Eight solo recitals in Kansas City and Los Angeles

●All-Region/All-State Material
●Audition Preparation
●College Prep
●Research, writing & editing
●Brass pedagogy (specializes in high brass)
●General Musicianship
●Music Appreciation
●Film Music Appreciation

●Intermediate high school students
●Advanced high school students
●College students

●Hot Springs, Arkansas
●Benton, Arkansas
●Little Rock, Arkansas

●$60 per hour
●One-hour minimum
●Extra fee for mileage if out of Hot Springs area