Congratulations to Pamela Grubb, 2024 Sweet Adelines Music Educator Award Recipient!
Join us in honoring Pamela Grubb at the 2024 International Convention and Competition in Kansas City, Missouri. The awards presentation will also be available on the live webcast at www.sweetadswebcast.com.
Sweet Adelines celebrates the achievements of music educators who have embodied our Guiding Principles of musical excellence, culture of belonging, diversity & inclusion, personal empowerment and leadership, and outreach by using their expertise to promote barbershop-style singing in their schools.
Past Sweet Adelines International Music Educator Award Recipients
Congratulations to Lauren Fladland (Metro Mix Chorus), 2023 recipient of the inaugural Sweet Adelines International Music Educator Award! “My students ultimately led me to the organization, and I continue to sing not just as a model for them but because this organization represents lifelong singing,” she said in her acceptance speech. “I’m honored, and I look forward to many more years of singing in the barbershop style with Sweet Adelines.” Watch Lauren's acceptance speech at the 2023 International Convention and Competition in Louisville, Kentucky:
Past Music Educator Award Recipients
In the past, Sweet Adelines International has partnered with professional music educator associations to present the associations’ awards to Sweet Adelines members during International Convention. Since 1992, over thirty Sweet Adelines have been recognized. To be eligible for nominations to receive these awards, nominees were required to belong to one of the partner associations.
National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Award Recipients:
2023 Lauren Fladland | 2012 Lori Lyford | 2001 Estelle Glarborg |
2022 Sarah Clay Lindvall | 2011 Natalie Allen | 2000 Janice Kueppers |
2021 Sarah Shapiro | 2010 Anne Kotchman | 1999 Jan Meyer |
2020 Melody Hine | 2009 Karen Wysocky | 1998 Beth Bruce |
2019 Susan Ives | 2008 Jennifer E. Edwards | 1997 Debbie Connelly |
2018 Jane Brown | 2007 Sheila Koplitz | 1996 Dede Nibler |
2017 Annette Lambrecht | 2006 Lauren Altiere | 1995 Sarah Boeka |
2016 Jana Gutenson | 2005 Kim Wonders | 1994 Lorraine Barrows |
2015 Amanda Sky Harris | 2004 Carol Grimmer | 1993 Sharon Vitkovsky |
2014 Patricia Danner | 2003 Melody Horgan | 1992 Lindi Bortney |
2013 Debbie Baker | 2002 Judie Sharp | |
EMEA Award Recipients: | 2001 Alyson Alan and Glen Chaney | |
CMEA Award Recipient: | 2016 Patti Thorpe |
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