Stephanie Rawls is the Modesto Youth Symphony Concert Orchestra conductor in Modesto, CA.
Mrs. Rawls attended Modesto Junior College, receiving an A.A. degree in music, before transferring to the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education with an emphasis in violin from the Conservatory of Music in 2000. While attending Pacific she performed with numerous ensembles including a quartet that opened for the Women’s Symphony in San Francisco.
Before coming to back to Modesto, Mrs. Rawls spent several years teaching in San Jose, Stockton, and Manteca where she taught award winning orchestras, Mariachi, band, and general music. In Modesto, she teaches orchestra at James C. Enochs high school. Mrs. Rawls has only been teaching in the MCS district for a few years but grew up involved in the music community. Mrs. Rawls attended Modesto High School (Go Panthers!!) where she was concertmaster. She taught summer lessons to underprivileged students at Mark Twain junior high, and volunteered, yearly, to play at Memorial Hospital. She was also a member of the Modesto Youth Symphony in junior high and high school!
Outside of school, Mrs. Rawls is a high school band mom, a football wife, a mom of a college daughter, a teacher for the Modesto Suzuki Association, and on the board for the (SCMEA) Stanislaus County Music Educators Association. She is excited to join the Modesto Youth Symphony faculty as the new Concert Orchestra conductor! Mrs. Rawls looks forward to providing a fun, safe, and musically challenging place for students to continue to develop as wonderful young adults, expand their knowledge, and express their love and joy for music.
