Retired
Benbrook, Texas
Mary Jane Phillips taught middle school choral music in Texas for 29 years before retiring from the classroom in 2018. She taught in Katy, Garland, Arlington, Birdville and Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISDs. She now a mentor, consultant, clinician, adjudicator and private voice teacher. Ms. Phillips graduated cum laude from Texas Christian University with a Bachelors’ Degree in Music Education. She has served as a JH/MS Region Secretary, Region Chair and was a UIL contest chair for 10 consecutive years. She has served the Texas Choral Directors’ Association as the chairperson of the Scholarship, Hospitality, Ballot and Ways and Means committees and was also a past Secretary/Treasurer of TCDA. She has presented workshops on the male and female adolescent changing voice, recruiting, literature selection, beginning the school year, curriculum sequencing, sightreading games and pedagogy for school districts, colleges and professional organizations across the United States. She has authored three books – SOS – Simplifying Our Sightreading (co-authored with Laura Farnell), Sightreading 101 and Making Sightreading Fun!. Ms. Phillips has been honored with recognition in Who's Who Among America's Teachers and been nominated for a Disney American Teacher Award. Ms. Phillips is exceptionally proud of the fact that several of her former middle school students are school, college and church choral directors, Broadway performers, elementary music teachers, private voice teachers, sound engineers, current music majors in college, community theater musical performers or lifelong singers and music lovers. She is a member of TCDA, TMEA, TMAA, ACDA and Mu Phi Epsilon. She is most proud of her precious 20 year old daughter Zoe, who is a musical theatre major at Wichita State University.
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Where the Wild Things Are: Taming the Tenor Bass Changing Voice Choir
Friday, July 21, 2023
10:40 AM – 11:30 AM CST