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Celeste Schaltenbrand

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Celeste Schaltenbrand is an instrumentalist who earned her Bachelor of Music in Music Education at Youngstown State University. Celeste studied flute with Dr. Kathryn Umble. While studying flute at Youngstown State, Celeste also sang in the St. John’s Episcopal Church Choir as a soprano.

While living in Youngstown, Celeste taught at Students Motivated by the ARTS (SMARTS), a non-profit organization that provides arts classes of all varieties and disciplines to students unable to access music in their public education system. While at SMARTS, Celeste taught a combination of music and life skills using drums to children with exceptionalities in local schools. She also taught instrumental lessons at the facility.

Currently, Celeste is the music teacher at Highland Elementary School in the Ambridge Area School District. At Highland, Celeste teaches a wide variety of music skills including philosophies and pedagogy from the World Music Drumming curriculum, Feiereband’s First Steps and Conversational Solfege, Orff Process, and Kodaly. She incorporates these methods in her instruction for Pre-K to 5th Grade General Music, as well as for instruction in other subjects such as 4th/5th Grade Band, 4th/5th Grade Chorus, and for her drumming and steel pan curriculum. In addition to teaching at Ambridge, Celeste teaches privately.

Celeste values the importance of continuing education and is a regular participant in professional development. She is an Apple Teacher and has also received certification in World Music Pedagogy from the Smithsonian Folkways Institution through West Virginia University, and her Level 1 certification in World Music Drumming curriculum at Slippery Rock University. She is an active member of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, of which is a regular conference attendee and is pursuing her Orff levels. Celeste is also a new Board Member of the
local Pittsburgh Golden Triangle American Orff-Schulwerk Association chapter, which provides local professional development for music teachers in the Pittsburgh region. Celeste Schaltenbrand resides in Wexford, where she lives with her husband, Troy.

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