David Rentz

David, an accomplished choral, orchestral, and opera conductor, currently serves on the faculty of the music department of Scripps and Pomona Colleges, is the music director of the Orange County Symphony, choir director at the First Congregational Church of Riverside, and resident conductor of the Chamber Opera Players of Los Angeles. From 2005 to 2010, he lived in New York, where, in addition to being an enthusiastic singing, conducting, and composing member of C4, he was director of Guildsingers, a professional early music ensemble specializing in 15th-century polyphony; choral director at The Brearley School; and assistant conductor of the New Amsterdam Singers. David received his B.Mus. summa cum laude from Washington University in Saint Louis, where he was a Mylonas Scholar in the Humanities. He earned his M.M at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was director of the University Chorus and graduate conducting assistant for the University Opera. He received his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale University School of Music, where he was co-director of the University Chapel Choir and a member of the internationally-renowned Yale Schola Cantorum. www.davidrentz.com