Professional development did not stop with my master’s degree. As a life-long learner, I participated in many MTAC, MENC, SCSBOA, and ASTA conferences. In 2007, I took several courses at California State University Long Beach to learn about the many changes in music education. So much has been gleaned from the  Dalcroze workshops and private cello lessons with Professor Barbara Thiem at Colorado State University, and Leila Viss in Centennial, Colorado. One of my favorite opportunities has been to engage in the week-long workshops hosted by Birch Bay String Orchestra Teachers in Ferndale, Washington. 

For over forty years, I have played in symphony orchestras and other musical events as well as taught hundreds of wonderful students on stringed instruments and piano.  Personal Notes Music  began in a little Louisiana town while I was also performing with the Lake Charles, Alexandria, and Natchitoches orchestras. Everywhere we moved, I opened my studio.  So, PNMS has former students from Louisiana; Bountiful, Utah; California (Escondido, Poway, San Marcos, Monterey, Sunnyvale, San Jose, and Lakewood) and now Colorado (Fort Collins, Loveland, Denver, and Castle Rock).  

As a professional musician, I have long-term memberships in MENC (Music Educators National Conference which is now the National Association for Music Education), the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC), and am currently a member of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) associating with a local Colorado group. 

I have had many opportunities to perform in Colorado including with the Poudre Valley Hospital Orchestra, the Loveland Symphony, The Lone Tree Symphony, The Denver Pops, and the praise team at church. I have also participated in seasonal community and church events, and played for weddings and at Stonegate Rehab Center in Parker and Bonaventure Senior Living in Castle Rock.