My Background
Resume and Experience
Kristen is a classically-trained singer and pianist with a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Centenary College of Louisiana, and a Master of Educational Administration degree from LSU. She has experience in opera, music theater performing/directing/accompanying, recording studios, contemporary Christian, praise and worship, accompanying, and church music. She served for seven years on the board of directors as Audition Chair and Private Teacher Liaison and webmaster for the DFW Chapter of National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). She is also a member of Mid-Cities Music Teachers Association (MCMTA) as the Publication Contest chairman and on the local scholarship committee, and Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA). She has taught in public schools and as a private teacher for over 30 years. She is also a private voice teacher for the Carroll ISD, Argyle ISD, and Birdville High School Choir Programs. She still actively performs and accompanies, working with university programs and directors from all over Texas and surrounding states.
Work Experience
Private Voice Instructor
Carroll Sr. High School
Argyle High and Middle Schools
Birdville High School
Collaborative Pianist
Trekorda
Voice and Piano instructor
Show Choir Director
The Master’s Touch School of Music
Asst. Choir Director
Show Choir Director
Private Voice Teacher
Group Piano/Theory Teacher
Boswell High School
Youth Choir Director/Accompanist/Praise Band/
Children’s Choir Accompanist
First UMC--Grapevine
Accompanist, vocal coach
Texas Christian University
Music Director
Celebration UMC--Ft. Worth
Choir, show choir, piano teacher
Woodlawn HS, Baton Rouge
Accompanist
Broadmoor UMC--Baton Rouge
Children's choir director
First UMC--Baton Rouge
Performance Experience
Live Theater:
Watertower Theatre
Regal Opera
Lyric Stage
Music Theater of Denton
Garland Summer Musicals
The Hopeful Theatre Project
Garland Civic Theatre
Grapevine Runway Theatre
(former board member)
Greater Lewisville
Community Theater
NTPA
Firehouse Theatre
Coppell Community Theater
Ministries in Motion
Fort Worth Theater
Continental Singers
(asst. director/dance capt.)
Texas Gilbert & Sullivan
Baton Rouge Gilbert &
Sullivan
Fort Worth Opera
Television:
Stingray, the Series
Walker, Texas Ranger
Matchmaker.com
Radio:
Jingles for Rabenhorst Funeral Home, ERA, Guarantee Bank, First American Bank, Cellular One
Industrials:
ABC Radio, Lockheed-Martin,
Coca-Cola Live Production Show