Orchestra Director

​Mr. Phillip Pagal has been the Orchestra Director at Ridge View High School since 2005. He has also taught in the Ohio Public School System.  Mr. Pagal received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and has also obtained his National Board Teaching Certificate in music.
 
The Ridge View High School orchestra program has received numerous Superior and Excellent Ratings in SCMEA events and State Competitions under Mr. Pagal’s direction. His students consistently audition for and are accepted into the Midlands Region Orchestra and the South Carolina All-State Orchestra.
 
Mr. Pagal's professional affiliations include the National Association for Music Educators, the South Carolina Music Educators Association, and American String Teachers Association. He has held past positions as the state Region Orchestra chair for SCMEA Orchestra Division and Solo and Ensemble Chair for Midlands. As a violinist, Mr. Pagal was a past member of the Palmetto Chamber Orchestra and the Lake Murray Symphony Orchestra. 

Favorite Music Quotes:

• "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo
  
  
• "To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." - Aaron Copland
 
• "If music be the food of love, Sing on till I am fill'd with joy" - Shakespeare
     
• "Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Andersen
     
• "I would teach children music... the patterns in music... are the keys to learning." - Plato
     
• "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." - Plato
     
• "Ah, music... a magic beyond all we do here!" - Albus Dumbledore
     
• "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams to music. I see my life in terms of music." - Albert Einstein
     
• "I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet." - Ludwig van Beethoven
     
• "Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it." - Lou Rawls
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Ridge View High School
Phillip Pagal, Orchestra Director
4801 Hard Scrabble Rd. 
Columbia, SC 29229
603-699-2999 ext. 84243
ppagal@richland2.org

• "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo
     
• "To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." - Aaron Copland
     
• "If music be the food of love, Sing on till I am fill'd with joy" - Shakespeare
     
• "Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Andersen
     
• "I would teach children music... the patterns in music... are the keys to learning." - Plato
     
• "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." - Plato
     
• "Ah, music... a magic beyond all we do here!" - Albus Dumbledore
     
• "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams to music. I see my life in terms of music." - Albert Einstein
     
• "I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet." - Ludwig van Beethoven
     
• "Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it." - Lou Rawls

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