2007-2008 Executive Board


Teresa McCreary, Ph.D.
President

 

An instrumental music educator for twenty years, Dr. McCreary holds music degrees from the University of Kansas (Lawrence), the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Hawaii (Manoa). She has been a cellist with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Bel Canto Trio in Texas, the Honolulu Symphony, the Maui Symphony and the Kona Orchestra. She has served as guest clinician and conductor for the Hawaii Youth Symphony, the University of Hawaii Orchestra, the Hawaii Department of Education, the Kamehameha Schools, and the All-South Honor Orchestra Conference at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has served on the executive boards for the Hawaii Music Educators Association, the Hawaii String Teachers Association, and the Hawaii Arts First Partnership. Currently, Dr. McCreary is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Music Programs at Hawaii Pacific University.


Beth Uale
Immediate Past
President

Beth Uale was born in Glendale, California. She graduated from Blair High School in Pasadena, received her Bachelors degree in Music from BYU- Hawaii in 1985, her Professional Diploma in Secondary Music Education from the University of Hawaii in December of 1996, and her MA in Music Education from the University of Hawaii in August of 1999. She began teaching private music lessons in 1985 and has been teaching music at various private and public schools in Hawaii for the past 13 years.

Currently she is a full time music teacher at Jefferson Elementary school and directs the Jefferson Chorus. She teaches private piano and vocal lessons in the afternoons and evenings at her music studio in Hawaii Kai. Since 1997 she has worked as an assistant director for the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus and directs the Coro ensemble for grades 4-8. Beth recently served as President of the American Choral Directors Association, Hawaii Chapter and became the President of the Hawaii Music Educators Association in July of 2004. She is a member of HMEA, MENC, ACDA, OAKE (Kodaly), National Guild of Piano Teachers (NGPT), and the American Mothers Association (AMI). She holds the title of "Mother of the Year" for the state of Hawaii until March of 2005. She is the President of the Young Womens Association for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Hawaii Kai Ward, and the director of the Honolulu Stake Childrens Choir. She is married to Bode Uale and has four children, Crichton, Andria, Justin and Travis.


Barbara McLain Ph.D.
Immediate Past
President

Dr. Barbara McLain is currently an Associate Professor and coordinator of the Online Master of Arts Degree program at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. At UH, in addition to developing and teaching online graduate courses, she regularly teaches undergraduate courses in Beginning Conducting, Secondary Instrumental Teaching Methods, Brass Methods, Music Technology for Teachers and supervises all student teachers.

Amanda Lippert
Secretary


Bryan Hirata
Treasurer

 

Anne Craig Lum
Collegiate Chair

 

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