Eight of Ten GRAMMY Music Educator Finalists for 2019
Are NAfME Members

 

NAfME member Jeffery Redding has been named the winner of the 2019 GRAMMY Music Educator Award™. Congratulations!

Edited February 15 to add one more member.

The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Museum® announced ten finalists for the 2019 GRAMMY Music Educator Award™, and eight of the ten are members of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME)*. More than 2,800 initial nominations were submitted from across the country — from public to private school educators, from general music teachers to band directors, choral conductors, string teachers, and college professors. NAfME congratulates each and every one of these talented, dedicated music educators. 

Here are this year’s finalists. NAfME members are highlighted in bold.

Jeremy Bradstreet	Dublin Coffman High School	Dublin, Ohio
Victor de los Santos	Santa Ana High School	Santa Ana, California
Elizabeth Hering	Churchill High School	Canton, Michigan
Henry Miller	Sierra Vista Middle School	Lake Forest, California
Amy Rangel	Glendale High School	Burbank, California
Jeffery Redding	West Orange High School	Orlando, Florida
Scott Sheehan	Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School	Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania
Mickey Smith Jr.	Maplewood Middle School	Sulphur, Louisiana
Craig Snyder	Penncrest High School	Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania
John Weatherspoon	Lake Worth Community High School	West Palm Beach, Florida

 

The 2019 GRAMMY Music Educator, selected out of the ten finalists, will be flown out to New York to attend the 61^st Annual GRAMMY Awards, and attend various GRAMMY Week events, and take home a $10,000 prize. The nine additional finalists will each receive a $1,000 honorarium; the schools of all ten finalists will receive matching grants.

Read a list of the quarterfinalists featuring NAfME members.

The honorariums and grants provided to the finalists and schools are made possible through the Ford Motor Company Fund.

All five of the previous GRAMMY Music Educator honorees, Kent Knappenberger, Jared Cassedy, Phillip Riggs, Keith Hancock, and Melissa Salguero are NAfME members.

Learn more about the Music Educator Award^TM process.

 

Nominations for the 2020 Music Educator Award are open for both teachers, students, and the public to nominate a music educator that inspires them today. Nominate a teacher by March 15, 2019.

 

Best of luck to NAfME’s finalists! 

* This number reflects those whose memberships were current at the time of this announcement and is subject to change.

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