Friends University Music Education

10/13/2022

Student Teacher Spotlight 🔦

Joseph Fisher is a Friends University Falcon and is working with Mrs. Strawn this school year! He once broke the fingers on his right hand and played a trumpet solo competition with his left hand. That’s amazing!

We’re to have him in the Domes this year!

09/20/2022

Congrats Panya Amphone-Suh! Look at that falcon fly!
NextGen Under 30 winner with the Kansas Department of Commerce

08/18/2022

Friends U. Music Ed grad Ivon Castillo starting her first year as a music teacher. We wish you all the best!

06/30/2022

04/26/2022

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Halstead senior Isabelle Loucks shows off the music scholarship certificate she received from Friends University. Seated with her are high school band director Shelbie Green and high school choral conductor Claire Clifford. Standing behind are Friends band director Shawn Knopp, father Les Loucks, Fr

04/12/2022

Congrats to the winners of the Wichita Metropolitan Music Teachers Association scholarship festival held at Friends University! Great job to these young musicians.

03/24/2022

🎙️ 🎶 Choir Directors, thank you for bringing out the songs in our students' hearts & helping them raise their voices. 🎶❤️

03/17/2022

🎼 Orchestra conductors: thanks for hitting all the right notes & striking a chord with our student musicians! 🎻

03/12/2022

We are super proud of Emily! Congratulations on your first teaching job - your students are going to have a blast with you! 🎶🎹🎉

Please join us in welcoming our new music teacher, Emily Son! Emily will teach at both WES and RME for the 22-23 school year. Emily is taking over for our beloved Mr. Vince Dasal who will retire at the end of May.

Emily is a native Wichitan and recent Friends University graduate, obtaining her Bachelor's in Music Education. In addition to teaching, Emily has a huge heart for performance! You may have seen her in Music Theatre Wichita’s productions of Carousel and The Hunchback of Notre Dame as well as Friends University’s Die Fledermaus. Currently, Emily is the music director for Foundations Youth Theatre's production of Frozen Kids. Emily shared she is so excited to meet and work with the WES and RME communities!

03/10/2022

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Band directors help students build the perseverance to practice and train for band concerts and marching events. Thank you for helping students march into life with confidence and dedication!

03/04/2022

🎵 We're singing the praises of our music educators! 🎶
Thank you for the music AND for teaching students how to play instruments (including voices) in school bands, choirs, orchestras, & other performance groups.

03/03/2022

These outstanding senior music education students were invited to serve as adjudicators for a middle school music festival in St. John, Kansas on Wednesday. Adjudicating their first music festival, they helped provide a positive experience for the student musicians who participated in the festival.

These future music educators are: Rebeccah, Tim, Salma, Adam, Micah, and Sydnee.

02/24/2022

Music Educators! Make sure to stop in and say hi at our Kansas Music Educators Association booth Feb. 25-26 and attend one of our workshops or performances. There will also be a reception at AVI Seabar & Chophouse Friday night.
Friends University Music Education

02/07/2022

Friends University is pleased to offer graduate credit for this year’s KMEA In-Service Workshop! More information about this opportunity including how to register can be found at https://www.smore.com/7d16t

12/14/2021

Congratulations Connor!

We are so excited to welcome Mr. Siler as the new Maize Middle School band director. He has been working with our students as their student teacher this semester.

12/14/2021

Congratulations to Friends U. student teacher Connor Siler for conducting an outstanding concert tonight with the Maize High Bands!

12/10/2021

Congratulations to student teachers Emily Son (Andover High School) and Samantha Kuemmerle (Derby High School) for conducting beautiful concerts tonight! We are proud of all you’ve accomplished this semester!