Jo-Anne Graham
Music Classes 1-8
I taught vocal music, general music, and music history in the Atlanta Public Schools, and my choruses usually received “Superior” ratings. I am beginning my ninth year at Heritage. I teach music on Wednesdays and on Thursdays. I also teach solfege, intervals, and numbers to aid in sightreading music. We work on rhythmic sightreading, as well.
I graduated from the University of Georgia with honors, with a major in Music Education, with a major in piano and a minor in voice. I was always in special choirs and choruses in school, in church, and in community choruses. I played cello in high school and in college and played the clarinet in the college band. I learned the most about vocal music from my Atlanta voice teacher, a Juilliard graduate, and from Maestro Robert Shaw in his small Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus of sixty and in his large chorus, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
I have been to church all my life – from cradle roll until now. I accompanied my father, a baritone-bass soloist, on the radio and at church as a young teenager and as an adult. My mother and my father always encouraged me in music and in academics. I had five scholarships in music and in academics in college.
I am a deacon at my church, active in the choir, in Sunday School, and on several church boards, including the Peachtree Christian Hospice Board.
I love to travel, and I enjoy concerts, plays, reading, photography, museums, and gardening.
