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Cynthia Coy, a native of Wisconsin, has been an instrumental music educator for 32 years.  Most recently, she served as the Director of Music at Saint Catherine’s High School in Racine, Wisconsin.  Prior to this appointment, she was the originating Director of Bands at Kate Bond Middle School in Memphis, Tennessee, where she enjoyed building a brand new band program (which included a Symphonic Band, a Concert Band, a Novice/Beginning Band, and a Jazz Ensemble) with the opening of this new school in the summer of 2011.  As the Director of Bands at Green Bay Southwest High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin, her marching band was selected as one of fifty bands (one from each state) to participate in the May 2004 dedication of the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C.   While the Director of Bands at Mukwonago High School in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, her 150-member competitive marching band, Symphonic Band, and Concert Band performed in the 1997 Alamo Bowl Festival in San Antonio, Texas, and in the 1995 Outback Bowl Festival in Tampa, Florida.  She has also directed high school jazz ensembles which have performed in the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Jazz Festival, the Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, and the Bob Kames Foundation Jazz Festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Ms. Coy earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in May 1985, graduating Magna Cum Laude, with an emphasis in instrumental music education and percussion.  She has enjoyed performing as a percussionist with the Bellevue Orchestra (Memphis), the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Green Bay Festive Orchestra, the Green Bay City Band, the Milwaukee Police Band, the Waukesha (Wisconsin) Area Symphonic Band, the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra (Stevens Point, Wisconsin), and the Stevens Point City Band. 

Special honors bestowed upon Ms. Coy include numerous inclusions in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers and her naming as “Mukwonago High School Teacher of the Year” in May 1996.  She served as one of 200 teachers in the Memphis City Schools’ Teacher Effectiveness “Ambassador Program” and was selected to be a conductor for the 2012 Memphis Area Middle School Honors Band hosted by Overton High School.   

Ms. Coy served on the Memphis City Schools’ Teacher Development Team for the Tennessee Fine Arts Growth Measures System and further served as a Peer Reviewer of fellow music educators’ portfolios in spring 2013 and 2014. 

Ms. Coy has held memberships in the National Band Association, the Jazz Educators Network (JEN), and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME).