63. Rosie Riquelme talks about her new position and some creative teaching strategies

Rosie Riquelme Antunez, Director of Orchestras at Decatur High
School, received her Bachelors of Music Education degree from
Georgia College and State University where she was a student of
Dr. Daniel Kaplunas. Rosie received her Masters of Music
Education from the University of West Georgia through their
online program and continued her own violin studies with Curtis
Institute Alumni, Mrs. Valerie Gardner in Winder, GA. In 2019,
Rosie became a Level 1 & Level 2 Google Certified Educator.
Rosie received her Specialist Degree in Instructional Technology
from Kennesaw State University in May 2021. Rosie regularly
serves as a guest clinician for various honor orchestras and
schools around metro Atlanta, and has served as one of the
counselors for the Encore! Summer Music Camp and the Atlanta
Chamber Music Festival. This school year is Rosie’s thirteenth
year teaching orchestra and first year at Decatur High School.
While teaching at Collins Hill (2011-2023), all orchestras
consistently received straight superior ratings at the annual
Large Group Performance Evaluation. In addition to earning
straight super ratings, the Collins Hill Chamber Orchestra also
regularly received perfect scores at LGPE. In 2016 the Collins
Hill High School Chamber Orchestra was selected to perform at the
national ASTA conference, and in 2017 was selected to perform at
the Georgia Music Educators Association conference. Rosie has
also been presenting regularly over the last two years on
instructional uses for technology in the classroom. She presented
at the Gwinnett Digital Learning Conference in June 2019, GMEA in
January 2020, the GA-ASTA conference in September 2020, among
other local professional developments in her school and county.
As a violinist, she has performed with various groups including
the Georgia Philharmonic, Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra, Gwinnett
County Chamber Orchestra, and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.
Rosie has had the honor or performing with various performing
artists including Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Disturbed, the
Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Ashanti Floyd otherwise known as
“The Mad Violinist”. Currently, she regularly performs with the
Emerald Empire Band playing for various events around Atlanta.
Rosie currently resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband, Jorge.
She was born in Venezuela. She enjoys salsa dancing, traveling,
paddle boarding, and spending time with her cats. Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/dhsorchestra/home Checkmark
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