Interview with Erin Broadhurst, Hilliard City Schools, OH

Erin Yelton Broadhurst is an orchestra director
for the Hilliard City School District near Columbus, Ohio. She
has earned Master Teacher status as designated by the State of
Ohio, and in April of 2016 she received a Baldwin-Wallace
Outstanding Educator Award. She has served as a string clinician
for the American String Teachers’ Association (ASTA and Ohio
Music Education Association conferences, and is a member of the
Executive Board for the Ohio chapter of ASTA. Ms. Broadhurst is
currently the violist for the Columbus String Quartet, and her
past professional performance experience includes membership in
the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and Newark-Granville Symphony.
Ms. Broadhurst’s previous teaching background includes serving as
the director of the Newark-Granville Chamber Strings, Middletown
Youth Symphony, and maintaining a private viola and violin
studio. In 2003 she was chosen as the Ohio String Teachers’
Association's Young Teacher of the Year. Ms. Broadhurst earned a
Bachelor of Music Education degree at BW and earned Master’s
degrees in both String Pedagogy and Viola Performance from the
Ohio State University. She thoroughly enjoys working with the
wonderful students at Hilliard Memorial Middle School and
Hilliard Bradley High School and spending time with her husband
and two children.


Ms. Broadhurst can be reached at Erin_Broadhurst@hboe.org.