NAME: Mrs. Brunson

SCHOOL: RMSA

CLASS: Vocal Core and Exploratory Music

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About The Teacher

This is Mrs. Brunson's second year as the Vocal Core instructor at RMSA.  
She is a graduate of Furman University with a Master's degree from 
Charleston Southern University.  She has taught middle school vocal/choral 
music for 23 years. 

Mrs. Brunson spent 15 years of her career as choral director at Laing Middle 
School.  The Laing Chorus participated in many choral activities in South 
Carolina as well as in Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Orlando.  She has 
led student trips to these places and has also taken students to England, 
France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.  The Laing Chorus twice 
received first place in the South Carolina Middle School Choral Festival.  

In her first year at RMSA, Mrs. Brunson provided Rollings students with 
opportunities that were new to some, including the choral Solo & Ensemble 
Festival and middle school choral clinics.  The 2006-2007 Star Singers 
scored two Superior and one Excellent rating at Solo & Ensemble Festival; 
straight superiors at the SC Choral Festival (both ensembles!); and straight 
superiors at the Carowinds Choral Festival.  10 RMSA students were selected 
for the SC ACDA Junior Honor Choir, which will perform in October.

Mrs. Brunson is an active music professional, serving on the State Junior 
High/Middle School Committee of the Choral Division of SCMEA for the past 12 
years (chaired the committee for four years).  She is a strong advocate for 
music literacy and has developed a curriculum for her students that is 
challenging as well as age-appropriate.  

Mrs. Brunson and her husband were the first secondary choral directors in 
the tri-county area to become National Board Certified teachers.  Among the 
tenets of the NBC teachers is that students be given varied and meaningful 
opportunities inside and outside the classroom to develop their choral 
skills.  The curriculum Mrs. Brunson has created for Rollings Middle School 
Vocal Core students is carefully planned to allow students to grow as 
musicians in the Rollings classroom, to perform as responsible members of 
the community, and to participate with students from Rollings as well as 
other schools in choral activities within our state and beyond.