Special Episode #4 - Distance Learning with Amanda Turner

Amanda Turner holds a Bachelor of Music (1998)
and Master of Music (2005) in Music Education, both from
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2018, she received
her National Board recertification by the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards.  Currently, Mrs. Turner
teaches orchestra at Ardrey Kell & East Mecklenburg High
Schools, both located in Charlotte, NC.  Mrs. Turner is also
the conductor of the Union Symphony Youth Orchestra Prelude
Strings. Orchestras under Mrs. Turner’s direction have
consistently earned Superior ratings at the North Carolina Music
Performance Adjudication and at a variety of other performance
venues. Students in her ensembles are chosen to participate in
auditioned orchestras including the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Honors
Orchestra, the Junior Western Region Orchestra, the Senior
Western Region Orchestra, the North Carolina Honors All-State
Orchestra, the North Carolina ASTA All-State Orchestra and the
NAfME Honors All-National Orchestra. She has served as guest
clinician/conductor for the Western Regional Repertory Orchestra
(NC), Junior Western Region Honors Orchestra (NC), Junior Eastern
Region Honors Orchestra (NC), Buncombe (NC), New Hanover (NC),
Onslow (NC), Robeson (NC), Rock Hill (SC), and Winston-Salem
Forsyth (NC) All-County Orchestras, the South Carolina Region 1
Junior Orchestra and the UNCG Summer Music Camp.


Amanda holds professional memberships as a member of the National
Association for Music Education (NAfME), North Carolina Music
Educators Association (NCMEA), and the American String Teachers
Association (ASTA). She is the past NC Orchestra Division Chair
for NCMEA and is currently the NC ASTA Chapter
President-Elect.  Mrs. Turner has been a free-lance violist
in the Charlotte area for years and currently performs as a
section violist with the Union Symphony Orchestra. She has taught
violin and viola privately for 20 years. She currently resides in
Matthews, NC with her husband Chad, a band director and
free-lance trombonist, their beautiful children, daughter,
Addison, son, Asher and dog Bella.


Links:



Ardrey Kell High School Orchestra


East Mecklenburg High School Orchestra

Google Classroom

Charms Office  

Remind



Online Project: Orchestro!  (Orchestra
Bingo)


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