ROB WESTERBERG

Rob Westerberg is Choral Director at York High School in York, Maine and Director of the Portland Community Chorus, having previously taught at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, NH and Bellows Falls Union High School, VT. Mr. Westerberg holds a B.M. in Music Education from Keene State College and M.M. in Choral Conducting from the University of Maine. He is past President of the Maine Music Educators Association, the Vermont Music Educators Association and the Vermont Choral Directors Association. Mr. Westerberg has managed District, All State and Eastern Division Choirs and served as chairman for the Maine All State Music Festival in both 2005 and 2006. Westerberg was a 2007 nominee for the Maine Arts Alliance Bill Bonyun Award for Arts Advocacy and is the 2010 recipient of the Keene State College Music Department's Distinguished Alumni Award. During the 2005-2006 school year he served the Maine Department of Education in the rewriting and revision of the Maine Learning Results for the Visual and Performing Arts and has continued to work closely with Maine's Arts Are Basic Coalition (ABC) to monitor legislation enhancing and promoting the growth of Arts education throughout the state. At York High School, he worked with administration to establish a Graduation Requirement specifically for Music - one of the few public schools in the northeast to possess one - ensuring that music education be truly "essential for every student". His choirs annually consist of one third of the student body and twice his YHS Chamber Singers have performed at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Dr. Dennis Cox. Mr. Westerberg has also conducted the Portland Symphony Orchestra's Magic Of Christmas Chorus, guest conducted nearly fifty Choirs throughout New England, and continues his tenure as Senior High Choral Director for MSYM; the University of Maine's Summer Youth Music program in Orono. Mr. Westerberg resides in Biddeford, Maine.