City Heights Music School
City Heights Music School, 3770 Altadena Avenue, San Diego, CA 92105
About
City Heights Music School offers music, dance, and art classes, including summer camps and community classes. Students can take private lessons in violin, piano, voice, guitar, drums, keyboard, trumpet, and ukulele, as well as participate in programs such as Mariachi Victoria, after-school Mariachi, Afro-Caribbean Ensemble, Ballet Folklorico, Electro Music, Rock band: BeatVox, Music123, Special Needs Music, and sing classes. The program describes itself as offering “MUSIC - DANCE - ART - ALL AGES” and “AFFORDABLE MUSIC CLASSES IN SAN DIEGO.”
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Hours Monday–Sunday; class and rehearsal times vary by program
From 2000–2006, the work behind City Heights Music School began as occasional coaching in school music outreach programs, which became the Latin American Music Project with two all-age ensembles, a Mariachi and an Afro-Cuban Ensemble (ACE), and in 2010 this became City Heights Music School. In 2010, founder and Artistic Director Victoria Eicher opened her home studio for private violin and piano lessons, and in 2016 City Heights Music School was adopted by the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. City Heights Music School is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization and lists partners and sponsors that support its community classes, including after-school Mariachi in South Bay and the Music123 program, which Auburn Williams brings into special education classrooms.
The artistic leadership team includes Founder/Artistic Director Victoria Eicher and Assistant Director Lorelei Isidro-Garner, who is also described as a visionary in vocal arts and teacher training. Victoria Eicher studied at the MacPhail Center for the Arts in the Suzuki program and has performed with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, Orquestra de Baja California, Mariachi Champaña Nevin, Caprice Strings, and in chamber ensemble programs throughout San Diego. Lorelei Isidro-Garner studied Voice Performance at SDSU, has taught music enrichment programs for over 20 years, serves as Choir Director of the Swing Choir and Concert Choir at Mission Bay High, teaches private voice, piano, and ukulele, and is the composer and creator of the ZipZapZoogle Music Enrichment Program.
Additional staff include Tomás Acosta, a choral conductor, piano teacher, and vocal coach with over 20 years of experience and a Master’s degree in Choral Conducting from the Universidad Veracruzana, and Charlie Chávez, who studied music at the Conservatory of Music, University of Xalapa in Veracruz and leads his own salsa group, Afrotruko, performing at major venues in Southern California. Board-certified music therapist Tia Frostrom offers individual and group clinical music experiences with populations including substance abuse, housing insecurity, mental health, medical, military, and community settings. Mac Lancaster is a scientist and musician who plays and teaches guitar, drums, and piano, heads the rock band BeatVox, and holds a B.S. degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (degree name truncated in the source). Isaac Lewis is a music educator and professional musician, a native San Diegan who studied samba music in Brazil and has toured extensively in Mexico and the United States with his band, The B-Side Players. Auburn Williams is a Special Education Paraprofessional Educator who has served as an ad hoc children’s teacher, children’s music leader, choir member, choir accompanist, and church organist, and has held leadership roles in youth and women’s organizations.
Last updated July 7, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Hours Monday–Sunday; class and rehearsal times vary by program
From 2000–2006, the work behind City Heights Music School began as occasional coaching in school music outreach programs, which became the Latin American Music Project with two all-age ensembles, a Mariachi and an Afro-Cuban Ensemble (ACE), and in 2010 this became City Heights Music School. In 2010, founder and Artistic Director Victoria Eicher opened her home studio for private violin and piano lessons, and in 2016 City Heights Music School was adopted by the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. City Heights Music School is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization and lists partners and sponsors that support its community classes, including after-school Mariachi in South Bay and the Music123 program, which Auburn Williams brings into special education classrooms.
The artistic leadership team includes Founder/Artistic Director Victoria Eicher and Assistant Director Lorelei Isidro-Garner, who is also described as a visionary in vocal arts and teacher training. Victoria Eicher studied at the MacPhail Center for the Arts in the Suzuki program and has performed with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, Orquestra de Baja California, Mariachi Champaña Nevin, Caprice Strings, and in chamber ensemble programs throughout San Diego. Lorelei Isidro-Garner studied Voice Performance at SDSU, has taught music enrichment programs for over 20 years, serves as Choir Director of the Swing Choir and Concert Choir at Mission Bay High, teaches private voice, piano, and ukulele, and is the composer and creator of the ZipZapZoogle Music Enrichment Program.
Additional staff include Tomás Acosta, a choral conductor, piano teacher, and vocal coach with over 20 years of experience and a Master’s degree in Choral Conducting from the Universidad Veracruzana, and Charlie Chávez, who studied music at the Conservatory of Music, University of Xalapa in Veracruz and leads his own salsa group, Afrotruko, performing at major venues in Southern California. Board-certified music therapist Tia Frostrom offers individual and group clinical music experiences with populations including substance abuse, housing insecurity, mental health, medical, military, and community settings. Mac Lancaster is a scientist and musician who plays and teaches guitar, drums, and piano, heads the rock band BeatVox, and holds a B.S. degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (degree name truncated in the source). Isaac Lewis is a music educator and professional musician, a native San Diegan who studied samba music in Brazil and has toured extensively in Mexico and the United States with his band, The B-Side Players. Auburn Williams is a Special Education Paraprofessional Educator who has served as an ad hoc children’s teacher, children’s music leader, choir member, choir accompanist, and church organist, and has held leadership roles in youth and women’s organizations.
Last updated July 7, 2026.
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