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Mrs.
Stone's Virtual Classroom
MEET YOUR
DIRECTOR
Beth Stone is a
native
Virginian and was educated in the York County School Division of
Yorktown, Virginia. A graduate of York
High School where she was
a member of the
symphonic band, drum major of the Falcon Marching Band,
tenor
saxophonist
in the jazz band, musical orchestra member, musical cast member
and a
Virginia All State Band clarinetist.
While attending the University of South
Carolina School of Music she performed in the wind
ensemble,
Swing Shift Jazz Band, chamber ensembles and marching
band, "The Mighty Sound of the Southeast!".
She
studied clarinet with R. Doug Graham. After
earning her Bachelor of
Music in Music Education, Cum Laude, Beth did a
semester of graduate
studies while performing as a clarinetist with the Palmetto
Concert Band.
She returned home to Virginia to begin her teaching
career. Her first position was as
the assistant director at Poquoson Middle School in Poquoson, Virginia.
In 2000, Beth was hired by
the York County Schools as the band director for Grafton Middle
School in Yorktown, Virginia. Under her direction
the program has grown 55% in size
while the school’s total
enrollment has
remained steadily the same. More than a
third of the
school’s population participates in the middle
school band. The middle school
intermediate and advanced
bands perform grade three and four level music and consistently earn
superior
and excellent ratings. The band programs at Grafton Middle and
Grafton
High employ four
band directors and have over 500
participating
students.
Beth is currently enrolled as a summer graduate student at the VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois.
She is a clarinetist with
the Virginia Wind
Symphony and a member of
the Virginia Music Educators Association,
Virginia Band
and Orchestra
Directors' Association, Music
Educators National Conference,
Phi Kappa
Lambda
Music Honor Society and Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity.
She has served as a guest conductor for the
Chesapeake Bay Wind Ensemble,
the Newport News All City Band, the
Chesapeake All City Band
and the Gloucester/Northern Neck Area Band.
Beth's
hobbies include scrapbooking, gardening, stained glass and playing Nintendo DS.
She
lives with her husband, Gabe,
their cat,
Pierre,
their parakeet, Tacet and their ever increasing
school of
guppies.
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