Bethany Miller
Follow messageUniversity of the Pacific Class of 2016
ELK GROVE, CA
Music is my past, present, and future.
I love to be involved but I still maintain a very balanced life. I love my family and enjoy traveling with them. In school, I prefer to commit myself to a few activities that I have been involved with my entire high school career which are: NHS, CSF, tennis, marching band, concert band, jazz band, and winterguard. Music is my entire life! I love listening to music just as much as I love performing! I play the clarinet and tenor saxophone and am the drum major for the LCHS Cardinal Marching Band and Auxiliary!!! I put my heart and soul into everything I do and will not settle for anything less than my best. I am an aspiring professional clarinetist and music educator, particularly to be a high school band director. I love to see that I have changed someone's life through music and believe I can best do this in education.
I love to be involved but I still maintain a very balanced life. I love my family and enjoy traveling with them. In school, I prefer to commit myself to a few activities that I have been involved with my entire high school career which are: NHS, CSF, tennis, marching band, concert band, jazz band, and winterguard. Music is my entire life! I love listening to music just as much as I love performing! I play the clarinet and tenor saxophone and am the drum major for the LCHS Cardinal Marching Band and Auxiliary!!! I put my heart and soul into everything I do and will not settle for anything less than my best. I am an aspiring professional clarinetist and music educator, particularly to be a high school band director. I love to see that I have changed someone's life through music and believe I can best do this in education.
Extracurricular
- Drum Major and Clarinet Section Leader
- Marching and Concert Band 2008 to Now
- I have been involved with our high schools bands since my freshman year. Our concert bands consist of a lower concert band and a more advanced wind ensemble and I perform in both. Our band started competing in field show 5 years ago and has grown drastically in those 5 years. The band has competed in parade since the opening of the school. We perform in community parades, at assisted living homes, and at concerts each season.
- Understudy and Advertiser
- School Fall play - The Curious Savage 2008 to 2008
- I was an understudy for one of the major parts of the play and helped with advertising the play through posters and fliers which I helped design.
- 4-year member
- Winter Guard 2008 to Now
- This is the high school's performance Color Guard. After the competitive fall season of field show and parade, the color guard separates from the band and puts together a new performance group. The guard instructor chooses music and a theme for the show that is performed in gyms at each of the competition venues. Members perfect techniques in flag, rifle, saber, and especially dance and have to audition to use each different equipment. Winterguard also performs at our high school rallies.
- Girl Scouts
- Exactly as it says, GIRL SCOUTS!!! I have been in GS since kindergarten and have earned my silver and leadership award. I am a member of troop 2098 in Heart of Central California. Girl Scouts unfortunately ends after high school, though I am considering t
- NHS
- This is my high school's National Honor Society. The elementary students in NEHS filter into our NHS as well as the middle schools' NHS's. I love everything NHS does for the community and school.
- Jazz Band
- I am the first chair tenor saxophone in my school's award-winning jazz ensemble. I LOVE THIS GROUP SO MUCH!!! It really allows me to express myself in ways I have never been able to before without worrying about the mistakes I make. It teaches me a lot an
- Volunteered at the Elk Grove Mobile Food Bank
- I helped hand out food to the needy on December 20, 2008.
- Toy Drive
- helping run the annual Toy Drive through GS.
- Speaker at Foulks Ranch NEHS Induction Ceremony
- Relay For Life volunteer
- I volunteered and participated in Relay For Life, a fundraising event that focuses on finding a cure for cancer
- Creek Clean Up
- cleaning up the creeks of Elk Grove
- TEI Night
- helping out at the Teacher Education Institute Night
- CMEA-CS Honor Band
- I was a member of the 6th grade, middle school, and high school CMEA-CS Honor Bands
- Band Camp
- High School Band Camp
- Adopt-A-Family
- My house for NHS adopted a family that lost something and needed support for Christmas
- Band Council
- I am the representative of the sophomore class members in all the bands at our school. I am their heart and voice and am responsible for listening to their ideas and executing them. I just make sure that the sophomores don't get lost in the shuffle of ban
- Bb Clarinet
- NorCal Honor Band 2012 to 2012
- Students from many high schools in Northern California audition for a seat in the NorCal Honor Band. A guest conductor selects highly advanced music for the students to perform after only 3 days of rehearsal.
Experience
- Music Tutor
- LCHS
Education
- High School
- Laguna Creek High School
- College
- University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
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Bachelor of Arts(Music)
- 2012 to Now
Honors & Awards
Successful GSP for NHS, academic award for maintaining higher than a 4.0 for my 9th grade year, multiple work ethic awards for band, guard, and baton, Bronze and Leadership awards for Girl Scouts, and the President's Education Awards Program Outstanding Award
Specialties & Skills
I have been playing clarinet for 9 years and tenor saxophone for 5 years. I am a fairly decent photographer and am an experienced leader
Info
Basic
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Last Update:
April 22, 2012
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Gender:
Female
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Birthday:
March 8
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Religious:
Agnostic
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Military:
No Affiliation
Background
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Ethnicity:
Caucasian or White
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Heritage:
English // German // Irish
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Citizenship:
US Citizen
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Fluent Language:
English
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Hometown:
ELK GROVE
Interests
- Brass Instruments
- Conducting
- Dance
- Education
- Teaching
- Drama & Theatre
- General Music & Theory
- Keyboard Instruments
- Percussion Instruments
- Stringed Instruments
- Voice & Opera
- Music
- Woodwind Instruments
- Performing Arts
- Languages
Favorites
- Movies:
Ever After, Zoolander, Legally Blonde, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Across the Universe, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Ponyo, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, District 9, Amadeus, all the Star Wars, all the Harry Potter, and all the Lord of the Rings movies
- TV Shows:
Color Splash, So You Think You Can Dance, Life After People, Cupcake Wars, Chopped, Phineas and Ferb, Chowder, The Soup, Tosh.0, Royal Pains, The Walking Dead, Burn Notice, Mythbusters
- Music:
I listen to pretty much everything: metal, rock, pop, hip-hop, classic rock, classical, musicals, world music, polka, just about anything. I'm very open to music and like having exposure to a variety of music. Artists: Boston, Avenged Sevenfold, Katy Perry, Ben Folds, Mozart, Von Weber, Vaughn Williams, Beethoven, Bizet, Lacuna Coil, Lenka, Britney Spears, among others
- Websites:
zinch.com, cappex.com, fastweb.com, lchs.schoolloop.com, thelchsband.org, lchsguard.webs.com, facebook.com
- Quotes:
"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it"
- Books:
Anything that takes me to a new and interesting place, or that teaches me something new while being interestingly and well written. Genres: Historical fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, autobiographies
