[Joyce
Richardson-Melech]
April
5, 2012
Joyce
Richardson-Melech has been awarded the Master Music Teacher Award
2012 at the annual New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference
on February 24, 2012.
She is the first music teacher from Perth Amboy
Public Schools to receive this award. Richardson-Melech is in her
thirty-first year as a public school music teacher in her home town
of Perth Amboy. She has been the 5th grade chorus director of Samuel
E. Shull School, William C. McGinnis School, and the 3rd and 4th
grade chorus director of A. V. Ceres School.
She also has been the
assistant band director of the Perth Amboy High School Band in charge
of woodwinds from 1984 - 1994. Dr. Richardson-Melech has also been
the musical director of the Perth Amboy High School play from 1989 -
1992, winning outstanding musical director awards from the Division
of Community Education at Middlesex County College, Edison, New
Jersey for "Grease" in 1989, and "Little Shop of
Horrors" in 1990. She was also honored with Best Musical
Accompanist for "Little Shop of Horrors" in 1990 presented
by the Joseph P. Hayes Drama Festival in Long Beach Island, New
Jersey. Other plays performed at Perth Amboy High School where
Richardson-Melech served as music director were "Hair" in
1991 and "Leader of the Pack" in 1992.
As an elementary
chorus director, Richardson-Melech has been instrumental in producing
numerous plays, programs, and concerts, including Alice in
Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Jungle Book, and Cinderella. Her chorus
programs focus on themes such as Classic American Folksongs and Dance
Hits Through the Decades and the chorus sings for the annual Holiday
Programs. She has led the A. V. Ceres School 3rd and 4th Grade Chorus
in participation with Kids in Concert sponsored by the Education Law
Center of Newark, New Jersey for three consecutive years in 2009,
2010, and 2011. She has been named A. V. Ceres School's Teacher of
the Year for 2011.
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