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HEALTHER GOLD, lecturer for 100 B Music in America: Choral Music, is a magna cum laude graduate of UCLA, where she earned a B.A. in vocal performance/music education and an M.A. in Education, specializing in music education. Her UCLA honors include the Don Schmeer Memorial Award as Outstanding Collegiate CMEA/MENC Member, the Marjorie Kluth Rimer Scholarship, the Women's Faculty Club Scholarship, and the Steve Lawrence/Edie Gorme Vocal Scholarship. Miss Gold is now in her ninth year as Director of Vocal Music at Manhattan Beach Middle School, where her responsibilities comprise five choirs, musical theater, and general music. Under her direction, MBMS choirs have received consistent superior festival ratings, the Madrigal Singers participated in the 2005 ACDA National Convention as a demonstration choir, and many individual singers have auditioned successfully for membership in numerous honor choirs. In the summer of 2008 Miss Gold was a presenter at the ACDA summer ECCO Conference on the topic of “Music and Ideas for the Changing Voice”. In October 2008 the MBMS Madrigal Singers will perform at the SCVA regional fall in-service. This spring Miss Gold will conduct the LAUSD Middle School Honor Choir and will provide teacher in-service training in various California school districts. During a fifteen-year career as a music educator, Miss Gold has also taught at Corrine A. Seeds University Elementary School, John Muir Elementary School in Santa Monica, El Rodeo School in Beverly Hills, and the Idyllwild Summer Music/Multi-Arts Program. Having developed a great love for singing Jewish music as a young artist at the Brandeis-Bardin Collegiate Institute, Heather Gold continues to enjoy performing. Most recently she performed as a featured soprano soloist at Temple Shalom of the South Bay and with the Hollywood Klezmer group at a function sponsored by the American Jewish University. |
