Music

List of 2 members.

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  Daniel Kosko 

  Music Teacher

  703-212-5182

  Bio

  Daniel L. Kosko, currently in his 5th year as a full-time music teacher at Bishop Ireton High School, he teaches band, orchestra, choir, guitar and AP music theory. Prior to joining the staff at Ireton, he was with Fairfax County Public Schools, having served 32 years as a band director at all levels of K-12 education. His last 24 years with FCPS were spent as band director at Robert Frost Middle School were the program grew from 79 students to a high of 270 members enrolled in four levels of band and two percussion classes.
  
  

  The Frost Symphonic Band continually earned superior ratings at state sponsored assessments and numerous grand champion awards at Musicale competitions in the Mid-Atlantic region. The band performed at the Virginia Music Educators Association state conference and had the privilege of performing at the 53rd Annual Midwest Clinic held in Chicago, IL. Mr. Kosko and the Frost Symphonic Band received the Sudler Silver Cup for 2002 awarded by the John Philip Sousa Foundation to middle school band programs demonstrating consistently high standards over many years. He was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Frost-Robinson Summer Band Camp for 22 years, a camp which served the music needs of over 150 instrumental students in a three-week camp session, employing a staff of 21 professional teachers and musicians.
  
  

  Mr. Kosko received his Bachelor of Music in Composition from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1980. He completed graduate studies a year later, receiving his Master of Music in Education and Instrumental Conducting from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Kosko is active as a guest conductor and adjudicator for many district and state honor bands and festivals in the Mid-Atlantic region and serves as a member of the Executive Board for the Virginia Band and Orchestra Director’s Association. He also serves as an adjunct professor of music for Northern Virginia Community College.
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  Melinda McKenzie Hall 

  Music Teacher

  7032125162

  Bio

  Melinda McKenzie Hall received a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana where she majored in Clarinet and Music Education.  As an undergraduate, she was accepted into the graduate conducting class and studied conducting under Dr. Harry Begian. After teaching high school band for four years at Kankakee Valley H.S. in Wheatfield, Indiana she received a Master of Arts in Conducting and Wind Literature from the University of Iowa where her responsibilities also included teaching undergraduate conducting and supervising student teachers.  While in the program at Iowa, she started the University of Iowa Clarinet Ensemble and conducted one of the University Bands. In 1988, she became the Director of Bands at Gar-Field Senior High School in Woodbridge, VA. In the summer of 1992, she was awarded a fellowship for graduate study at Northwestern University. While at Gar-Field, the Symphonic band was selected to perform at the MENC Southern Division conference in Savannah, GA in 1993, and the Virginia Music Educators’ Association conference in 1994. The Gar-Field Jazz Bands were finalists in the Chantilly Jazz Festival and the Landon School Jazz Festival and winner of the Southern Maryland Jazz Festival. In 1999, she became assistant band director at Lake Braddock Secondary in Burke, VA until 2001 when she took the position as the Director of Bands at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, VA.  from 2002 to 2015. There, her responsibilities included the Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Beginning Band and the Marching Cavaliers. Under Melinda McKenzie Hall, the band has performed at the Virginia Music Educators’ Association Conference in 2009, was a featured performing group at The University of South Carolina Band and Conductor’s Clinic in 2010 and also at the College Band Directors National Association/National Band Association Southern Division Conference in Atlanta in 2012. Mrs. McKenzie Hall was awarded a National Band Association Citation of Excellence in 2009, another Citation of Excellence in 2010, the Bandworld Legion of Honor in 2010, an NBA Citation of Excellence in 2012 and was presented the Sudler Flag of Honor in the Spring 2012. Mrs. McKenzie Hall is only the second woman band director in the 30 year history of the Sudler flag to earn this award. In 2014, she was inducted into the prestigious American Bandmasters’ Association. She has served as Secretary on the VBODA Executive Board from 1990 to 1999 and was on the Board of Directors of the National Band Association 2014-2018. Professional affiliations include the National Band Association, National Association for Music Education, Virginia Music Educators’ Association, Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors’ Association, Pi Kappa Lamda, Phi Beta Mu and the American Bandmasters’ Association.