Instrument(s) Taught: Piano, Theory

Membership Status: Active

Forte Music School
60 King Rd. , Unit 1
Oak Ridges
(905) 773-1474
Or
588 Edward Ave. , Unit 30
Richmond Hill
(905) 508-2911

Dr. Richard Heinzle is the director of Forte Music School in Richmond Hill .  He teaches piano and theory.

He is organist and choir director at Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church and at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Thornhill.  In Scarborough , he conducts the Harmonie Choir, a German heritage choir.

Richard has been organist at churches in Ottawa , North Bay , Calgary , Muncie ( Indiana ), and Brampton .  Recently, he received a scholarship for achieving the highest mark in the Colleague examinations of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. 

Richard has a B.A. degree from Carleton University , where he majored in piano and trumpet.  For his M.M. ( University of Arkansas ) and his D.A. ( Ball State University , Muncie , Indiana ) he majored in orchestral conducting, with minors in theory and piano.  While in Muncie , he was the assistant conductor of the Muncie Symphony, and the conductor of the Youth Orchestra.  He has been guest conductor with the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Orchestra, the Lethbridge Symphony, and the Prince George Symphony Orchestra.  In Ottawa he founded and conducted Vivace Orchestra on a tour of the Ottawa Valley , including a performance at the Governor General's Summer Concerts.  He has conducted opera performances at Ball State University , University of Arkansas , and for Opera Breva in Ottawa .