Teaching voice and performing for 25+ years, Dr. Rigney is re-opening her music studio in Westchester, LA after teaching in Calabasas for 5 years – Specialties include: Beginning, intermediate and Advanced Voice and Beginning to Early Intermediate Piano.
Teaching
Private Studio, 25+ years
UCLA, 1 year Music Department Teaching Assistant
- – Designed and taught “Beginning Voice for Non-Music Majors,” currently in use
- – Private voice to Music Education Students
National Children’s Chorus, 1 year Vocal Instructor
Goethe International Charter School Choir Conductor, 2 years
College de Taiohae, Club Muzic, Marquesas Islands, 1 year Vocal Instructor
Academics
UCLA, Ph.D. in Music, Vocal Pedagogy
- – Instructors; Vocal Chair – Juliana Gondek, Michael Dean, & Vladimir Chernov
- – Vocal Department Teaching Assistant
- – Recitals
- Highest earning entrepreneurial recital “Viva la France” with the Los Angeles Valley College Symphony Orchestra
- Produced and performed an innovative multi-visual concert of Colombine in Song
- – Publications
- The Significance of the Soubrette available on amazon.com: ISBN-10: 3838333063.
- The Beginning Voice Teacher’s Handbook, in current use at UCLA
CSUN, Master’s in Music, opera performance
- – Instructors; Linda Stones, David Scott
- – Most Outstanding Graduate Student
- – Publication: Graduate Recital in Voice
UCLA, Bachelor of Arts, French Literature & Economics
Awards
NY Metropolitan Opera, National Council Competition, Regional Finalist
Pasadena Opera Guild, Vocal Achievement Award, Winner
Recordings
Job’s Wife, Job’s Truth by Darius Holbert, heard as most treble voice in “On the Advice of Friends” world premiere, 2009
Various tracks, The Solemn Vow by Quinn, available on amazon.com
Violetta, La Traviata, ‘E Strano….Sempre Libera‘ on Youtube.com
Performance
Los Angeles Opera, Soprano Soloist:
– Bridesmaid Duet, Nozze di Figaro
– 1st Noble Page, Tannhäuser
– 3rd Sister, Suor Angelica
Los Angeles Opera, chorus, 12 years
Repertory Opera Company of Pomona, soloist, 12 years, currently
Orange County Opera, outreach program, 1 year
Guild Opera, outreach program, 2 years
Arete Vocal Ensemble of Thousand Oaks, chorus, 2019
Ventura College Symphony Orchestra, violin, 2020
Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, violin, 3 years
Additional Engagements
Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Capitola
California Desert Chorale, Palm Desert
Camerata of Los Angeles
Intimate Opera Company, Los Angeles
Palisades Symphony, Pacific Palisades
Pocket Opera, San Francisco
St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Palisades
South Bay Light Opera, Hawthorne
Angeles Chorale, Northridge
Townsend Opera, Modesto
West Coast Opera Theater, Palm Desert
Verdi Chorus, Santa Monica
Santa Monica Opera Theater