Lori Marie Rios

Lori Marie Rios is a highly accomplished conductor, soloist, educator and voice teacher. She currently serves as Professor of Choral/Vocal Music at College of the Canyons, Valencia where she is the music director of the Chamber Singers and Les Chanteuses Treble Choir. She also teaches voice and administrates the applied vocal program.

Prior to her appointment at COC, she directed the choral program at La Canada High School. Ensembles under her direction have sung all over the United States. Her choirs have appeared at the American Choral Directors Association Regional Convention in Las Vegas in 2004 and in 2007 were selected to appear at the ACDA National Convention in Miami. The choirs at La Canada also performed at the California Music Educators Conference.

Lori Marie is also the Assistant director of Vox Femina, an accomplished Treble Community Choir in Los Angeles, and she serves as the assistant director of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program. Ms. Rios has presented workshops for the American Choral Directors Association and the Nevada Music Educators Association. She is in high demand as a clinician and adjudicator all throughout the United States, and she has conducted several district and statewide honor choirs. She also sits on the Los Angeles Bach Festival Board of Directors. She made her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in 2006 as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem.

Lori Marie is the past president of the California ACDA board and serves on the Regional and National Steering Committees for that association. She holds an M.M. degree in Choral Conducting and Vocal Performance from University of Nevada, Reno and a B.M. in Choral Studies.