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Louise Loomis Biography

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Living in: Albuquerque, United States.
Louise Loomis received her BA and MA in Music Education from the University of New Mexico. She further specialized in the music education of children with training in Orff-Schulwerk - a developmental approach to music education that integrates music, movement, drama, and speech into a child s world of play. She has received Orff Certifications from Denver University, Hamline University, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has also studied at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.

Ms. Loomis has taught music classes for the elementary students of Albuquerque Public Schools and San Felipe Pueblo. She taught music for over 20 years at Manzano Day School, and is currently the music teacher at Sunset Mesa School. Her choruses regularly performed with the NM Symphony Orchestra and NM Philharmonic Orchestra, and hundreds of her students have participated in NM All-State Choruses.

Louise is well-known in Albuquerque for her annual full-scale musicals with 4th and 5th grade students, with hits like The Pirates of Penzance, Into The Woods, Beauty and the Beast, and The Wizard of Oz. She is also renowned in NM for her preparation of young singers for opera performances, such as The Magic Flute and Carmen with the Santa Fe Opera, and La Boheme and Tosca with Opera Southwest.

Ms. Loomis has received the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Teacher of the Year Award, the NM Educators Association s John M. Batcheller Award for Excellence in Teaching Elementary Music, and the Bravo Award for Excellence in Arts Education awarded by the Albuquerque Arts Alliance.