About

    Born in Cuba and now residing in the Heart of America, Noila Ortega is a well rounded professional musician, conductor and bilingual educator.

   Ortega, coming from a family of influential musicians, started piano at the age of seven and graduated high school from National School of Art with an emphasis in Music Theory, Piano and Chamber Music Teaching. She continued her studies and graduated from the University of Arts in Havana, Cuba with a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a focus in Orchestral Conducting and Musicology. Her mentors and teachers include: Enrique Perez Mesa, Maria Elena Mendiola Orozco, Dwight Oltman, Marta Maria Rodriguez Cuervo, William Villaverde, Maria Dolores Novas Sust, and Andres Alen. Ortega also holds a Master of Arts in Teaching with an emphasis in Foreign Languages (Spanish) from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

   Ortega has a broad range of experience of performing and conducting orchestras from large ballets to youth orchestras, accompanying ballet classes and choirs, as well as teaching all ages and levels. Currently she is the head of the Music and Spanish departments at Outreach Christian Education, is a piano accompanist at the Kansas City Ballet, has a private teaching studio, and freelances as a conductor and accompanist.