Biography

Heather Rentz holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from Ohio Wesleyan University, the Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from the University of North Texas, and the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Flute Performance from the University of South Carolina. Her flute teachers have included Nancy Gamso, Terri Sundberg, Mary Karen Clardy, and Constance Lane.

Heather was awarded the Advanced Flute Certificate at Carnegie Mellon University with Alberto Almarza in 2006. She has had articles published in Flute Talk and The Instrumentalist magazines. Dr. Rentz has performed on flute and as the principal piccolo player with the Los Colinas, Garland, and New Arlington Symphonies in Texas and the Augusta Symphony in Augusta, Georgia.

Dr. Rentz has performed with Grammy Award winning artists, including pianist and music professor, Paul Barnes. She has made solo concerto appearances with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, including Mozart By Candelight Concerts at St. John's Churches in Lima and Delphos, Ohio.

Heather teaches privately in her home and in the homes of students in the Cleveland, Ohio area and Sandusky, Ohio. Private lessons are available for flute, recorder, tin whistle, clarinet, saxophone, and piano. Group classes for ages 16 and up in music history and music theory. A Kindermusik educator, she teaches with Kindermusik By the Falls. Heather has taught Kindermusik throughout Cleveland and the surrounding areas. Heather also enjoys teaching as a reading and literacy specialist at Townsend Learning Center in Cleveland, Ohio.