MusicAlliance Board of Directors: Bio for Laura Joss

LAURA JOSS

Laura L. Joss, M.M., Loyola University, B.M., Baldwin-Wallace College. In addition to serving on the MusicAlliance Board of Directors, Mrs. Joss is currently an Assistant Professor at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio where she serves as the Chair of the Music Education Department and teaches middle school and high school music education method classes, brass, woodwind and string methods and conducts the B-W Concert Wind Ensemble. She is also a doctoral candidate at Case Western Reserve University. This past fall, Mrs. Joss traveled a second time to South America as part of an Artists in Residency program sponsored through the Ohio Arts Council and the Santiago Chilean Northamerican Cultural Institute. She conducted both bands and orchestras at the Liceo Experimental de Musica Copiapo in Copiapo, Chile and facilitated teacher work sessions to begin to write the National Chilean Artistic School Music Education Curriculum. Mrs. Joss then traveled to the La Serena, Chile to present a week long band clinic for all of the band directors in the north of Chile at the Universidad de La Serena Escuela Experimental de Music Jorge Pena Hen and facilitated the formation of the first Chilean Music Education Association. Mrs. Joss is active both nationally and internationally as an adjudicator, music education consultant and clinician. In 1997, while directing both bands and orchestras in Strongsville City Schools, Mrs. Joss was selected as Master Teacher of the Year by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. She is a member of the Ohio String Teachers Association, American String Teachers Association, Ohio Music Education Association, and the Music Educators National Conference.

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