Cynthia Weichel

Music Director Cynthia Weichel has been on the faculty of Santa Rosa Junior College since 1999, where she currently teaches music appreciation and is the studio violin/viola instructor. Weichel is a native of Santa Rosa and an alumna of SRJC. She received her bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Sonoma State University and a master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from CSU, Sacramento. Ms. Weichel has been conducting orchestras in Sonoma County for over 35 years. This season marks her 16th year conducting the Santa Rosa Junior College Orchestra. She is currently the founder/conductor of the North Bay Sinfonietta and the popular summer Symphonic Reading Orchestra. She served as the Assistant Conductor of the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestras for over 10 years.

As a professional violinist, she has been a member of the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Napa Valley Symphony for over 20 years. As a violin instructor, Ms. Weichel has taught for the Sebastopol Charter School, Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts and for the Summer Mariachi Camp through the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. She spent almost 20 years as Manager and Education Director for the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestras, was Manager of the Santa Rosa Children’s Chorus, and Operations Director for the California Symphony in Walnut Creek.