DIRECTOR

KATHERINE GREEN

Mrs. Green holds a Masters Degree in Choral Conducting and Vocal Performance from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University. She is in her twenty second year as a music educator and in her sixth year as Choir Director at La Cueva High School. She directs Concert Choir, Treble Choir, Underground Advanced Mixed Show Choir, Sapphire Sound Intermediate Treble Show Choir and Tech/Stage Craft. She also teaches Beginning and Intermediate/Advanced Piano classes and serves as the Advisor to the Tri-M Music Honor Society Chapter for all music student members at La Cueva High School.

Over the years, her students have attended district, state and ACDA and NAfME National Honor Choirs, received superior ratings at disctrict, state and national music festivals, traveled to California, Texas, Illinois and Colorado to compete in various national choir and show competitions. Locally, her students have participated in Acapella Festivals, Collegiate Camps, workshops at the University of New Mexico and Eastern New Mexico University. They have collaborated on performances with La Cueva Camerata Orchestra, Quintessence Choral Artists of the Southwest and the UNM Concert Choir. They have also performed the National Anthem at community events including: the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, Maravilla Gala, the United Soccer, Isotopes Baseball and the UNM Lobo Basketball games. Many of her students have chosen career paths in musical theater, vocal performance, dance, theater, piano performance, music education, music therapy and composition.

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Originally from Minnesota, Mrs. Green developed a deep passion for choral and piano music from a community of great music educators and is proud to have found that same love in our community here in Albuquerque and in the state of New Mexico. She resides here with her husband, Eric (a meteorologist) and her two children, Sophia and Gus.