ABOUT US
Our Story
What started as occasional coaching in school music outreach programs from 2000-2006, turned into the 'Latin American Music Project' with two all-age ensembles: a Mariachi and an Afro-Cuban Ensemble (ACE). In 2010, the LAMP became the 'City Heights Music School' as more instruments and levels were required to meet the demand for music education in City Heights. In 2016, CHMS was adopted by the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and continues to flourish under the direction of Victoria Eicher.
YPO - Awards and Conductors Emeritus
2023-2024 Thursday Concert Series!
Victoria Eicher, Founder/Artistic Director
I grew up in Minneapolis and studied at MacPhail Center for the Arts, starting at the early age of 3 in its Musical Trolley program and continuing to the age of 14 as a student of Suzuki Violin. With three siblings also enrolled at MacPhail, I spent a lot of time in its huge lobby area surrounded by musicians and dancers coming and going to class, and in the upper floor hallways outside of the studios of private lesson teachers. My mother, a small-town girl from northern Minnesota, played piano and always loved the violin. So there I was, at the age of 4, with a chopstick for a bow and a ruler taped to a tissue box for a violin! That’s how it all began...
ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP
Victoria Eicher, Artistic Director
Victoria Eicher, Artistic Director
Victoria Eicher, Artistic Director
Violin, Piano, Mariachi Victoria
Victoria Eicher grew up in Minneapolis and began playing violin at the age of 4 in the Suzuki program at MacPhail Center for the Arts. She has performed with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, Orquestra de Baja California, Mariachi Champaña Nevin,
Caprice Strings, and in chamber ensemble programs
throughout San Diego.
In 2010, Ms. Victoria founded the City Heights Music School and opened her home studio for private lessons in violin and piano.
Lorelei Garner, Assistant Director
Victoria Eicher, Artistic Director
Victoria Eicher, Artistic Director
Piano, Voice, BeatVox, Ukulele and Music123
Lorelei Isidro-Garner is an accomplished vocalist, as well as a proficient pianist and ukulele player. She joins the artistic leadership team as a visionary in vocal arts and teacher training. Lorelei studied Voice Performance at SDSU and has taught music enrichment programs for over 20 years. She is the Choir Director of the Swing Choir and Concert Choir at Mission Bay High and a private instructor for voice, piano, and ukulele.
Lorelei is the composer and creator of the “ZipZapZoogle Music Enrichment Program”.