Angela M. Rex is a Greenville, SC native and currently serves as the Orchestra Director at Riverside Middle School, in Greer, SC. Ms. Rex has taught middle school orchestra in Greenville County since 2007. Under her direction, her orchestras have consistently earned Excellent and Superior ratings at SCMEA Concert Festival and other festivals. Before coming to Greenville, Ms. Rex taught at Western Kentucky University and Spartanburg School District 7.

Ms. Rex earned her bachelors in Violin Performance from Appalachian State University and her Master’s Degree in Violin Performance from Converse College. 

Ms. Rex has served as a guest conductor for several Region and County orchestra events throughout South Carolina. In 2011, Ms. Rex was selected as the Teacher of the Year for Bryson Middle and earned a top 3 finish as Teacher of the Year for all of Greenville County. 

In addition to teaching, Ms. Rex has performed with many local orchestras including the Greenville Symphony, GAMAC orchestra and the Spartanburg Philharmonic. Outside of school, Ms. Rex enjoys gardening and other outdoor hobbies.

Susan Wines’ enthusiasm for music and teaching began as a double bass player in middle school. It continued to develop through teacher encouragement as well as participation in All-State, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band, and several Honor Orchestras. After high school, Susan Wines attended Converse College where she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors of Music in Instrumental Music Education. In 2008, she initiated the Band & Strings program at Ralph Chandler Middle School in Simpsonville, SC.  While teaching at Ralph Chandler Middle, she established a beginning and intermediate program for band and strings as well as a full orchestra honors ensemble. These ensembles traveled to Music Festivals in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina and received numerous Superior Ratings. In 2016, she accepted a new position as Director of Orchestras at Wade Hampton High School. Currently, Ms. Wines is the orchestra director of the Freshman Ensembles at Byrnes High School.  In addition to teaching, she has enjoyed her role of being an adjudicator Concert Performance Assessment and Solo & Ensemble Festival; assisting the Wade Hampton High School Bands; a guest speaker and mentor for pre-service teachers; and guest conductor for Region Orchestras as well as at several Summer Music Camps in the Mid-West, Northeast and Southeast regions. Susan Wines the SC-ASTA President, SCMEA Orchestra Division Executive Director and has been recognized as a WYFF Golden Apple Teacher Award Recipient as well as Teacher of the Year. ​

Catherine Hawks grew up in the Atlanta area and started playing the piano when she was 5 and then started playing the violin when she was 9. From a young age she loved the excitement of the sound, the ability to hear a song and play it on her instrument, and most of all she loved being able to play and see the smile brought to someone else's face because of music. Catherine studied Music Education with an emphasis on violin at Bob Jones University and after graduating taught elementary group piano classes at a public charter school in Spartanburg, SC. She has traveled to various places including Spain, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, and Italy. This led her to move to China to teach English after teaching in Spartanburg. After living in China a year she decided to move back to America and pursue a career in teaching Orchestra. She started teaching at Hillcrest Middle School in Simpsonville in the fall of 2019 and has loved every moment of it! Her goal for teaching orchestra is to empower students by giving them a voice through music. We all have a voice with our instruments, let's use it for something good!