Professional of the Year - Music Education
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Ginger Culpepper |
Title: | Founder and Artistic Director |
Industry: | Music Education |
Type of Organization: | Professional Music Center |
Major Product/Service: | Music education |
Expertise: | With over 60 years experience as a performer, studio teacher, administrator, clinician and music educator, Ms. Culpepper is a former freelance horn player with several symphonies. |
Geographic Area of Distribution: | New Hampshire |
University/Degree: | B.S., Elementary Education/Music, The College of New Jersey, 1958 |
Born: | January 9, 1937, Brooklyn, New York |
Hobbies/Sports: | Travel, sailing, family activities, spending time with friends |
Spouse: | Max Chadwell Culpepper |
Married: | April 12, 1958 |
Children: | Daniel, Pamela, Cynthia, Laurie |
Work History: | Previously, Ms. Culpepper served on various symphonic organization boards. She served as a horn professor at Plymouth State College, director of brass chamber music at Dartmouth College, horn instructor at Brown University, coordinator of the Performing Arts Division of the University of Massachusetts, chairperson for the Instrumental Music for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association and personnel manager of the Connecticut Valley Orchestra. |
Honors & Awards: | Lifetime Achievement Award in Pedagogy, New England Horn Society, 2008; |
Career Accomplishments: | Ms. Culpepper is extremely proud that many of her private students have been accepted on scholarships to major conservatories and music schools and are members of orchestras throughout the U.S. and Europe. |