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linda4dale

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About linda4dale

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  • Birthday 03/15/1957

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About Me

I was destined to be a musician from the moment I was named. My parents, thinking I was going to be a boy, had not chosen a girl name prior to my birth. Since they needed to name me before we could go home Dad went to the gift shop and picked up a popular baby name book and the first two girl names became mine, Linda Carol. In Spanish Linda means pretty and a carol is a French song of happiness. So - I am a pretty song of happiness. 19.gif

 

When I was six years old my godmother gave me her 75 year old baby grand piano. It took up half of our living room. The first day after it was delivered, when no one else was around, I crawled under the piano and sat there looking up at the massive instrument and wondered what it could do. Later that same year my parents took me to see a musical and when we came home I went straight to the piano and picked out the melody from one of the musical's songs. Hearing this, they enrolled me in lessons where I excelled, playing college level repertoire by the time I was twelve.

 

When given the opportunity to play in the school band my director suggested the bassoon. My parents complained that it sounded like a sick cow but after practice I improved enough to add 42 medals to my school band jacket. I joined the Army in 1980 as a bassoonist but spent most of the next 3 years singing and playing keyboard and saxophone in a touring country band and rock combo for the military.

 

After the Army I performed occasionally on the piano as I primarily worked outside the music field until 2001 when I was given the opportunity to teach privately in my own studio. In January 2003 I took a group of students to see a fabulous pianist, Professor David Watkins, in concert at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Mr. Watkins' performance inspired me to be a better pianist for my students so I contacted him about returning to college as a piano performance major. KSU, glad to know I played bassoon, asked me to join the band and in my junior year agreed to change my major to a double major - piano and bassoon.

 

In 2008 I graduated from KSU Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music Performance in Piano and Bassoon. That same year I began the courses for a Music Education degree with ambition to be a public school music teacher and composer of music for middle and high school bands. I completed the Music Education degree Summa Cum Laude in Spring 2009 and am now a Certified P-12 Music Educator working for the Douglas County School System.

 

I self published my composition "Quartet Suite for Double Reeds" in 2008 and now my composition "Native Spirit" for level 2 concert band is available through BRS Music.

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