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The Orange County Symphony Board of Directors
takes great pleasure in announcing the appointment of
Dr. David Rentz
Music Director/Conductor
Dr. David Rentz
David Rentz, an accomplished choral, orchestral, and opera conductor, currently serves on the faculty of the music department of Scripps College, and is the choral director at the First Congregational Church of Riverside. From 2005 to 2010, he lived in New York City, where he was a principal conductor and co-founder of C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, a collectively-run ensemble devoted to performing works written in the last twenty-five years. He was also director of Guildsingers, a professional early music ensemble specializing in 15th-century polyphony. In addition to his work with C4 and Guildsingers, Dr. Rentz served as choral director at The Brearley School, a K-12 girls preparatory school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Dr. Rentz 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 also was the director of Cantilena, one of the choruses of the Madison Children's Choir; founding director of the Madison Yiddish Choir; and the music director of the Madison Savoyards, a longstanding Gilbert and Sullivan troupe. He received his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale University School of Music, where he was director of the University Chapel Choir and a member of the internationally-renowned Yale Schola Cantorum. He has received fellowships and grants from the Yale alumniVentures program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was part of the 2011 Oregon Bach Festival Master Class in Choral Orchestral Conducting.
Directors & Conductors
Dr. Anthony Mazzaferro
Dr. Anthony Mazzaferro was born and raised in San Francisco. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from San Francisco State University. During his undergraduate years, he served as the Principal Tubist in the Symphonic Band and Symphony Orchestra. In addition to this he was the Assistant Conductor for both the Symphonic and Concert Bands. After graduating with honors in 1978, Dr. Mazzaferro attended Northwestern University. He pursued a Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting where he studied with John P. Paynter. In 1986 he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University. As a Graduate Assistant Dr. Mazzaferro worked with the Band and Music Education departments. While at Arizona State, Dr. Mazzaferro studied with Richard Strange, Robert Fleming, Daniel Perantoni, Ronald LoPresti and Barrie Wells.
His guest conducting and adjudication assignments have included Honor Bands and Orchestras throughout the Western United States, Canada, Singapore and New Zealand. In 1994 and 2001 Dr. Mazzaferro was selected to conduct the California All-State Honor Band. In 2007 Dr. Mazzaferro conducted the California All-State Junior High Symphonic Band. Dr Mazzaferro has also conducted the Alberta, Canada All-Provincial Honor Band and the Singapore “Junior College” National Honor Band. As a clinician, Dr. Mazzaferro has worked with Concert Bands and Orchestras from The United States, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, and China.
On his principal instrument, tuba, Dr. Mazzaferro has performed with numerous bands and orchestras throughout California. This includes the Diablo Symphony Peninsula Symphony, Symphony of the Mountain, Berkeley Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Santa Ana Symphony, and the Crystal Cathedral “Hour of Power” Orchestra. He is currently Principal Tuba with the Orange County Symphony & Wind Symphony.
Dr. Mazzaferro is the 2007 recipient of the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) “Don Schmeer/Byron Hoyt Band Educator Award for excellence in Band Education and Performance”. Dr. Mazzaferro is active in several other musical affiliations outside of Fullerton College. His most recent activities include serving on the Board of Directors for the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp in Northern California and serving as an Associate Conductor for the Orange County Symphony & Wind Symphony. Dr. Mazzaferro is a member of, CBDA, CBDNA, MENC SCSBOA, ITEA and WASBE.
Dr. Mazzaferro is currently the Director of Bands at Fullerton College. In addition to his academic assignments, Dr. Mazzaferro conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Community Band, and instructs Applied Euphonium and Tuba. Since 1992 he has served as the Principal Conductor of the Symphonic Winds of the Pacific. In 2006 he formed the ensemble “City Winds” to promote the performance of Wind Chamber Music.
Dr. Anthony Mazzaferro was born and raised in San Francisco. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from San Francisco State University. During his undergraduate years, he served as the Principal Tubist in the Symphonic Band and Symphony Orchestra. In addition to this he was the Assistant Conductor for both the Symphonic and Concert Bands. After graduating with honors in 1978, Dr. Mazzaferro attended Northwestern University. He pursued a Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting where he studied with John P. Paynter. In 1986 he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University. As a Graduate Assistant Dr. Mazzaferro worked with the Band and Music Education departments. While at Arizona State, Dr. Mazzaferro studied with Richard Strange, Robert Fleming, Daniel Perantoni, Ronald LoPresti and Barrie Wells.
His guest conducting and adjudication assignments have included Honor Bands and Orchestras throughout the Western United States, Canada, Singapore and New Zealand. In 1994 and 2001 Dr. Mazzaferro was selected to conduct the California All-State Honor Band. In 2007 Dr. Mazzaferro conducted the California All-State Junior High Symphonic Band. Dr Mazzaferro has also conducted the Alberta, Canada All-Provincial Honor Band and the Singapore “Junior College” National Honor Band. As a clinician, Dr. Mazzaferro has worked with Concert Bands and Orchestras from The United States, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, and China.
On his principal instrument, tuba, Dr. Mazzaferro has performed with numerous bands and orchestras throughout California. This includes the Diablo Symphony Peninsula Symphony, Symphony of the Mountain, Berkeley Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Santa Ana Symphony, and the Crystal Cathedral “Hour of Power” Orchestra. He is currently Principal Tuba with the Orange County Symphony & Wind Symphony.
Dr. Mazzaferro is the 2007 recipient of the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) “Don Schmeer/Byron Hoyt Band Educator Award for excellence in Band Education and Performance”. Dr. Mazzaferro is active in several other musical affiliations outside of Fullerton College. His most recent activities include serving on the Board of Directors for the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp in Northern California and serving as an Associate Conductor for the Orange County Symphony & Wind Symphony. Dr. Mazzaferro is a member of, CBDA, CBDNA, MENC SCSBOA, ITEA and WASBE.
Dr. Mazzaferro is currently the Director of Bands at Fullerton College. In addition to his academic assignments, Dr. Mazzaferro conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Community Band, and instructs Applied Euphonium and Tuba. Since 1992 he has served as the Principal Conductor of the Symphonic Winds of the Pacific. In 2006 he formed the ensemble “City Winds” to promote the performance of Wind Chamber Music.