WENDY TENNEY is Director of Orchestras for Lowell Area Schools where she teaches three high school orchestras and 6th grade beginning orchestra classes. A graduate of Michigan State University, with a Masters in Curriculum and Music Instruction from Grand Valley State University, she developed the orchestra program in Lowell from twelve students to over three hundred musicians today. The orchestras in Lowell consistently earn top marks at state festival, and the alternative-styles ensembles Lowell Fiddle Club and LHS Fusion Rock Orchestra perform regularly at numerous events around the community. Mrs. Tenney has served on the conducting faculty at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and Interlochen Arts Camp, has won awards such as Kent County Teacher of the Year, MDE Regional Teacher of the Year, and has served on Michigan Department of Education’s Teacher Leadership Advisory Council. A dedicated believer in celebrating diversity, Mrs. Tenney works to develop a diverse curriculum of styles and cultures in her concert repertoire. She regularly collaborates with nationally renowned composers, conductors and educators to develop her students work as performers, composers and arrangers. Along with her husband Aaron Tenney, Director of Arts and Music at NorthPointe Christian School, Wendy has three children- Hannah, Josiah, Isaac and a Bernese Mountain Dog named Cello.