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Karen Martin, Glendale/Peoria, ArizonaGlendale Community Band
Miss Martin is also an adjudicator at various Arizona Music Educator Association festivals and has served as an adjunct instructor of guitar at Estrella Mountain Community College. She was chosen to conduct the Arizona Elementary All-State Band Festival held in March of 2000. A native of Indiana, Miss Martin received degrees in Instrumental Music Education from both DePauw University and Indiana State University. She has pursued extensive post-graduate and doctoral studies in instrumental music and elementary and secondary education at Arizona State University. Miss Martin has performed regularly as principal French Hornist in the Glendale Community Band, Glendale City Band, Sonoran Horns French Horn Ensemble and the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, as well as participating with Scottsdale, Mesa and Metro Pops Symphony Orchestras. Miss Martin is a long-time member of Arizona Music Educators Association (AMEA) and their national affiliate, Music Educators National Conference (MENC). She continues to be a strong advocate of school and community music programs.
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Karen Martin is the newly-appointed traveling
Elementary Band Director for the Dysart Unified School
District. She is formerly the Band Director and General
Music Teacher at Villa de Paz Elementary (K-8) School in the
Pendergast School District of west Phoenix, where she
instructed band, music, guitar and keyboard lab classes. She
has also assisted with choral and the jazz band programs
both as a director and as a mentor teacher. She has been
teaching music and computers in Arizona since 1981.