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BIOGRAPHY

Alyze Dreiling is an award-winning conductor, and accomplished violinist and violist in San Diego.She is the conductor of the New City Sinfonia, the CYO (Civic Youth Orchestra) Symphonic Orchestra, the North Coast Strings and the Grossmont College String Ensemble where she is an adjunct faculty member. In addition to her title as Conductor Emeritus of  the YPO Soloists Ensemble, Festival Orchestra and Sinfonietta , she was also the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of Classics for Kids, a fully professional orchestra performing specialty youth concerts in the San Diego area. Ms. Dreiling maintains a private teaching studio and is a member of the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC) the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), and the National Piano Guild. She also serves as an adjudicator for the MTAC Certificate of Merit program.

Ms. Dreiling won the 2019-2020 1st prize in the American Prize Competition – conductor of youth orchestra division.

Ms. Dreiling was an invited semi- finalist to the European Union International Conducting Competition in 2018, held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has attended masterclasses with Zoltan Rozsnyai, Gunther Neuhold, Neil Thomson and Dr. Scott Weiss and Philip Greenberg and she has conducted orchestras in Sofia, Bulgaria and Florence, Italy.

 

Ms. Dreiling’s credits include: violin soloist with the Detroit Symphony, Philharmonica Hungarica at the Vienna Summer Festival, Florida Chamber Orchestra, concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony and Knoxville Chamber Orchestra. With composer, Myron Fink, she received a recording prize from Contemporary Recording Society for the production and release of a CD featuring Fink’s Violin Sonata #1 and subsequently the Violin Sonata #2.Additionally, locally, she has appeared as soloist with the International Orchestra, SDSU Symphony and Grossmont Symphony where she served as principal violist of the orchestra as well as a member of the Grossmont Quintet, and was the Violinist/Conductor of the International Chamber Players at USIU.   She has also served as concertmaster for shows at the Old Globe, Civic Auditorium, La Jolla Playhouse, Lawrence Welk Theater and Starlight Musical Theater and has played with the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Hutchins Consort, Opera Pacific, and Orquesta de Baja California.  Adept with all musical styles, she has played concertmaster for Donna Summers, Smoky Robinson, Dionne Warwick and Tom Scott, to name a few and most recently plays electric violin in the rock band, Led Delta. 

She has attended Kneisel Hall, Blossom Music Festival and Academy of the West for chamber music and worked with Walter Trampler, Karen Tuttle, Janos Starker and Menahem Pressler.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, she began her studies with master pedagogue, Mischa Mischakoff .The Detroit Symphony and the Music Study Club of Metropolitan Detroit sponsored her education with Mischakoff. Ms. Dreiling graduated from Indiana University where she studied with the legendary violin teacher, Josef Gingold. She holds a BM in Violin Performance from Indiana University and MA from United States International University with an emphasis on Orchestral Performance.

 

These materials were updated as of July,2024.

​ALYZE DREILING

​ALYZE DREILING

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​ALYZE DREILING

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