Sarah Cleary — Louisville Classical Academy

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music & choir instructor

BA, Social Psychology with a minor in Vocal Performance, University of Louisville

I come from a family of teachers and professors, most notably my father, who taught Anatomy 101 at the University of Louisville School of Medicine for over thirty-five years, my stepfather who taught music education and choir at Hanover College for over thirty years, and my cousin, Rebecca, who is a Kindergarten teacher in Minnesota. While I thoroughly enjoyed singing in multiple children and youth choirs as a child, I really fell in love with music performance while traveling with the Louisville Male High School show choir as a teenager. However, when I enrolled at the University of Louisville for college, I took a different route (thinking I could never make a career out of music) and majored in Social Psychology, rather than music performance, which led to an early career in youth ministry and development as well as non-profit social work.

While I felt successful and fulfilled in these jobs, I discovered that I was truly called to teach, and so I later made the switch to become a theology and social justice teacher at Holy Cross High School in Louisville. Meanwhile, I continued to sing professionally with local choirs such as Voces Novae, the Louisville Vocal Project, and the world-renowned University of Louisville Cardinal Singers. A highlight of my vocal post-graduate education was a semester that I spent at the Music Conservatory of Rome, Italy, the Pontificio Istituto Di Musica Sacra, and Fondazione Pro Musica E Arte Sacra, where I studied the use of the Latin language in Gregorian Chant.

As I continued to sing professionally in Louisville/Southern Indiana, I slowly began taking on voice students and children’s choirs and grew in my knowledge of teaching music to various ages now spanning preschool through high school.

While careers and life paths can often take strange and exciting twists and turns, I have always found music and the arts to be a solid, trustworthy companions on my journey and I look forward to sharing this powerful discipline with our students.