(Voice, Acting, Piano, guitar) has been teaching for more than 20 years. He is a Broadway veteran, international artist, and proud member of Actor’s Equity Association. Mr. Pineda is co-founder of the Little Opera Company and Pineda Conservatory and worked at the Union County Performing Arts High School directing shows and teaching musical theatre. He has directed, recorded, and taught voice, acting, and musical theatre throughout New York and New Jersey Metropolitan area. He and his family moved to Richmond, Va several years ago to help take care of his parents. Mr. Pineda is the worship & music director at Powhatan UMC and has continued to teach voice and acting lessons out of his private studio, teaching all ages from amateur to professional. He has also worked with the show choirs at Clover Hill High School and Powhatan High School as a voice teacher, and also at St. Catherines, directing the middle and high school choirs covering a maternity leave. Mr. Pineda has performed in Avery Fischer Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Public Theater, and at The Broadway Theater, where he played “Thuy” in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon. He has also performed many other roles in productions such as The King & I, L’Elisir d’amore, Cavelleria Rusticana, Babes in Toyland and Turandot to name a few.