Workshop Speaker
Structuring Your School Music Program for Success, even with Logic School Boys
Choirs, orchestra, bands, recorders, musicals, traveling ensembles, music lessons, competitions? With so many options to the school music teacher, which path should your school go down to make your school successful? This talk will demonstrate what is possible with your school, when you have a clear vision. Sometimes less is more. Come see what is being done at Trinitas Christian school to make our school a singing school, including Logic School boys.
Edward Varela is the chair of the music program at Trinitas Christian School in Pensacola, Florida, where he has been teaching for twelve of his nineteen years in music education. Ed graduated from Pensacola Christian College where he received his BA in church music and his MA in music. He has completed his Kodály music teacher certification from Chenaniah Summer Music Institute through New Saint Andrews College-Conservatory of Music. He serves on the executive board for Pensacola Music Teachers Association and Florida State Music Teachers Association. His days are filled with private piano and voice lessons, handbell choirs, musicianship classes, and choirs. When he is not teaching music, you can find him coaching soccer and baseball, walking his dog, Daisy, or, most of all, daydreaming about the next national park he will visit. He and his wife Miranda have been married for seventeen years and have three children: Olivia, Landon, and Lawson. They attend The Cross Church in Pensacola where Ed serves as music director.