About Your Teacher


Music at Bangert



	About Your Teacher

Click below to download my teaching portfolio and my resume. The portfolio is a PowerPoint, so it's a large file. Be patient while it downloads to your computer.

Click here to download my teaching portfolio

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I have been teaching at Bangert since January of 1999.

I grew up in New Bern and even went to Bangert in the 4th grade! In 1979 I graduated from New Bern High School and went to UNC-Greensboro for my Bachelor of Music in Education. I finished my Master of Music in Education at East Carolina University. For a short time I taught music in my ancestral home, Barnwell County, in South Carolina. Eventually I came back to New Bern to teach music.

In 1992 I went on an extended leave of absence to study traditional Scottish singing at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. This was such an enriching experience for me and an experience from which I can draw for my music teaching.

I am married to Paul Inserra and I have 4 cats and a dog. They are our little furry children.

During the past few years my hobby has been creating polymer clay jewelry. To see samples of my work go to:

http://bangertmusic.tripod.com/trufflestreasures/

Miss Harley in Scotland around 1997

What an experience!

This is a picture of me standing on top of an Iron-Age fort called Dunaad on the west coast of Scotland. It was quite a climb up to the top, but the pay off was worth it. At the top I was able to see a footprint carved into the rock. The early Scottish people used this footprint as part of their ceremony to coronate their earliest kings.

Below is an example of the many beautiful, ancient, carved standing stones found throughout Scotland.

Click on the stone to find out more about the ancient people of Scotland

The study of music from other countries is called "ethnomusicology." This is what I was studying while I was researching traditional Scottish singing styles in Scotland. To find out more about music from other countries:

Click this kitty to see all my kitties

My favorite music:

Jazz

Rock and Roll

Classical

New Age

Folk Music

International Music

Hobbies:

stained glass

travel

calligraphy

history

various crafts

jewlery making

spending time with my kitties!

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

~Pat Conroy~

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

~William Shakespeare~

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

~H. A. Overstreet~