

in Bassoon Performance from the University of Delaware, where he had studied under the tutelage of Dr. in Music Education from Towson University and a M.M. Whether working with young musicians in several Howard County schools or as a part of the Mike’s Music family, Kim is uniquely qualified to nurture the sheer joy that comes from making music.Ĭollin Walter holds a B.S.

Quite simply, Kim’s passion isn’t just music, it’s teaching the techniques that guide beginning players to excel. Although she excels at playing and teaching woodwinds (flute, clarinet and oboe), Kim is happy to work with students who are learning strings and brass. Kim specializes in developing a lifelong love of music and performance in the youngest musicians. In addition she served as the elementary instrumental music representative to the Maryland Music Educators Association and has played flute and piccolo with the Gettysburg Symphony Orchestra.

She earned bachelor and masters degrees in music education at Towson where she studied flute under noted instructor Robin McKey-Day.ĭuring a 32-year teaching career with the Baltimore County Public Schools, elementary and middle school bands and orchestras under Kim’s direction received superior and excellent ratings at both county and state levels of competition. Kim began playing flute at age 10 and was a member of bands and orchestras associated with Towson University’s outstanding music department. Kimberly McNicholas Keehner inherited her love of music from her father, who played trumpet with a US Army Air Force band during World War II. Elizabeth is happy to be back in Maryland, teaching 4 th-6 th grade band and orchestra in Prince George’s County Public Schools. During her doctoral studies, she was a member of the viola faculty for the Music Education Pathways program at Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA and was a member of the flute faculty at Ferrwood Music Camp in Drums, PA. She also taught as an adjunct and supervised student teachers at West Chester University. While at Temple, she worked as a TA in the music education department, which included serving as a graduate conductor of the Night Owls Community Band and teaching Woodwind Methods to undergraduate and graduate students. In 2010 she played Griffes’s Poem for Flute and Orchestra with the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland In Concert as the winner of the COSMIC Young Artist Competition.Įlizabeth earned her PhD in music education at Temple University in 2019.

While in Maryland, she earned her Master of Music in Music Education from Boston University. After completing her undergraduate degree, Elizabeth moved to southern Maryland, where she taught pre-k through fifth grade band, strings, chorus, and general music for four years at St. She spent one semester at the Ithaca College London Center, taking lessons with Susan Milan at the Royal College of Music. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Music Education at Ithaca College, where she studied flute with Kelly Covert. Elizabeth Robbins began studying the viola at age 9 and the flute at age 10, and has experience performing and teaching strings and woodwinds.
