Clinics with MasterClass Faculty
American Classic is providing one-time clinics for high school varsity bands, choirs, and orchestras in select locations!
Christine Cumberledge
Christine Cumberledge is the Director of Visual and Performing Arts for Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. Prior to this position, she was the Director of Bands at Central Junior High. Her ensembles have earned many honors, including performing as the 2020 Texas Music Educator Invited Band, the 2006 Texas Music Educators Association BBB Honor Band, the 2019 Midwest Band and Orchestra Convention Invited Band, and the 2023 Music For All National Festival Invited Ensemble. Under her direction, the group was named a Foundation for Music Education Mark of Excellence National Winner and awarded the John Philip Sousa Sudler Silver Cup, which recognizes outstanding middle school band programs in the nation.
She was named a national semi-finalist for the Music Educator Grammy in 2022 and 2023. In 2017, Cumberledge was named Music & Arts National Educator of the Year.
Mrs. Cumberledge has her Master of Education in Administration from Lamar University and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of North Texas. She is a member of Phi Beta Mu, Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, and Sigma Alpha Iota. She is an active clinician and adjudicator around the state.